Imagine that you are a public health informatics specialist and that you and your colleague(s) are concerned about a new strain of pandemics such as COVID-19 or influenza

Imagine that you are a public health informatics specialist and that you and your colleague(s) are concerned about a new strain of pandemics such as COVID-19 or influenza. You will need to figure out which types of data should be used to address this potential concern by doing the following:

Think of three types of public health data that could be used to determine the need for mass inoculation, and explain why you selected each type of data for this specific task.

Then, think of two types of data that should be collected to determine the success of said inoculation program and explain why you selected each type of data for this assessment.

To prepare for this discussion:

Your initial answer post should be (min.) 300 - 400 (max.) words long. The post should demonstrate your understanding of specific learning concepts related to this assignment.

Your initial answer post should include a minimum of four (4) current high-quality references, and two (2) of them should be peer-reviewed articles from the GW online library.

Resources to use:

1.            “REQUIRED” Using Informatics to Promote Community and Population Health “Chapter 14 - uploaded”.

2.            Guignard-Duff, M; Hall, C; New, B; Lang, C (2020). Use of Population-Based Health Informatics Research to Improve Care for Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases. Diseases, 8 (4), p.47. https://wrlc-gwu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_GWA/15suu1b/cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_9545236b0dac459eb3a8c31bd819ec6d

3.            Rudin, R.; Fischer, S; Damberg, C; Shi, Y; Shekelle, Paul G; Xenakis, L; Khodyakov, D; Ridgely, Susan (2020). Optimizing health IT to improve health system performance: A work in progress. Journal of delivery science and innovation, 8 (4), p.100483-100483 https://wrlc-gwahlth.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_GWAHLTH/gr7gmc/cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2451845203

4.            Shaban?N, A; L; Lavigne, M; Okhmatovskaia, A; Buckeridge, D (2017). PopHR: a knowledge?based platform to support integration, analysis, and visualization of population health data. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,13871(1), pp.44-53. https://wrlc-gwu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=wj10.1111/nyas.13271&context=PC&vid=01WRLC_GWA:live&search_scope=CentralIndex&tab=CentralIndex&lang=en

5.            Landi, H. (2018). The Push Towards Value-Based Care Is Forcing the HIT Vendor Market Forward

6.            Landi, H. (2018). Are EHRs Meeting Providers’ Needs for Value-Based Care Capabilities?

7.            Menkiena, C., Murphy, J. (2017). The Role of Nursing and Nursing Informatics in Population Health

8.            Data & Statistics

9.            The World FactBook

10.          County Health Rankings

11.          Managing Population Health: The Role of the Hospital

12.          Nursing Informatics Key Role in Defining Clinical Workflow, Increasing Efficiency, and Improving Quality

13.          Population health analytics.

14.          Population Health Management: Systems and Success.

15.          The Three Essential Responsibilities of a Nurse Informaticist

16.          What Is Population Health?

17.          What Is Value-Based Healthcare?

18.          What Is the Difference between Population Health and Public Health?

19.          Population Health In Action