HIMS ASGN 6

Assignment Instructions: 

You have been hired as a healthcare informatics specialist at a state health department that focuses on four public healthcare goals – public health surveillance, immunization information collection, public health reporting, and public health education.

Write a Briefing Report that addresses the following aspects:

1. Discuss four health informatics tools (Electronic Health Record -EHR, Health Information Exchange - HIE, Web portals, eHealth, electronic media, mass media, social media, communication technology, disease/immunization registries) used to accomplish these goals. Select one tool for each goal and explain why you selected this tool for this goal.
2. What challenges do you face in using the selected tools in accomplishing these public health informatics goals and what state-level policies would you frame to overcome them?
3. Propose a research initiative for organizational effectiveness demonstrating application of one of the discussed tools.  

APA Requirements: Formatted in APA 7th Edition. Provide credible evidence, through the use of in-text citations from your references, to support your conclusions/information.