Week 4 Discussion
What are your thoughts?
Public health data is important for the good of your community, state, and the nation. Being able to track trends in healthcare is important for many reasons. Think about our pandemic and the spread of Covid and all the tracking of data that is associated with this disease. We must have methods to track this data and to protect the individual’s personal health information (PHI). Here is an article that describes “data cleaning”. Data from EHRs must be accurate and free from PHI. Since there are so many different EHR systems in use, is this an achievable outcome, if so, how?