Query Health: standards-based, cross-platform population health surveillance

Query Health: standards-based, cross-platform population health surveillance

OBJECTIVE Understanding population-level health trends is essential to effectively monitor and improve public health. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Query Health initiative is a collaboration to develop a national architecture for distributed, population-level health queries across diverse clinical systems with disparate data models. Here we revie...

Query Health and i2b2: Enabling Standards-based, Multiplatform Population Health Queries

Understanding population-level health trends is essential to effective public health. Therefore, the ONC has launched the Query Health Initiative, a large collaboration seeking to build a national network for distributed, population-level health queries across multiple platforms. The reference implementation will include i2b2, a widelyused data repository and analysis platform. Here we describe...

Socioeconomic Inequality in Health Literacy, Self-Rated Health, and General Health in Arak, Iran: a Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Aims: Socioeconomic inequalities are major problems for public health in the communities. This study aimed to determine the socioeconomic inequality of health literacy (HL), self-rated health (SRH), and general health. Instrument & Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed in Arak city, Iran, in 2019. The Wealth index was created using the principal component analysis (PCA) based on pa...

A Population Health Surveillance Theory

OBJECTIVES Despite its extensive use, the term "Surveillance" often takes on various meanings in the scientific literature pertinent to public health and animal health. A critical appraisal of this literature also reveals ambiguities relating to the scope and necessary structural components underpinning the surveillance process. The authors hypothesized that these inconsistencies translate to r...

Health Based Standards: Toxicology