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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. How might you begin to develop a data and information 3. The primary goal of public health is to affect population exchange between acute care, subacute care, and home health and ensure a healthy community. How might you health settings that would support the work of public health? Do such systems already exist? see public health nurses using web-based tools to reach 2. Monitoring population health status is a central public health activity. A variety of survey systems, such as the CDCs National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey NHANES) and National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), as well as state and national reporting systems, such as the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), Preg nancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), and National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS), provide public health practitioners with the ability to assess health trends, identify and respond to emerging health haz- manage, and educate populations of patients residing in targeted communities? develop the tools required to translate between clinical and public health worldviews as they relate to information system development and data sharing across ties. As a clinical leader, by what means would you at to a nds are technological tools that are 4. Part of the job of the public health informatician is to e special- advo- enable this sharing 5. Personal health nlemented BHRs and tou foresee the use ithin the acute care setting to enable data exchange with EHRs and to encourage in healthcare. How mght you foresee the use ards, and guide development of interventions and policiesti ed data from a P that address serious health conditions such as obesity, t-ent c health or patient portal as a patien tool? smoking, and diabetes. With the proliferation of EHRs pubi within acute and ambulatory care systems, how much of survey activity do you think can be folded in under rou- tine data collection and exchange activities?