Question

In which ways are the interests and goals of healthcare organizations and public health converging? How does HIS play a role in supporting these mutual interests and goals?

Answer 1

Ways through which health care organization and public health interest are converging:

• Implementation of EHR in health care organization Provides better services for public health.
• Exchange of health information between health organization and public health helps to achieve the goal.
• Public health move towards the improvement of population health and health care organization helps to reduce the health care cost.
• Public health ensures the insured population, and health care organization reduces the population risk.
• Both health care organization and public health overlap the interest in preventing of disease, managing of chronic illness, and thereby improve the overall health of the people.
• Public health goals towards making awareness of public health issue and health care organization focusing on health model in preventing and treating disease.
• Health Information system helps to connect the different health care organization and to share data.
• The interoperability system of EHR assures the goal of the health management system.
• THe HITECH Act enact the policy changes in public health reform.