There are a host of subcategory informatics: dental, nursing, pharmacy, and physician just to name a few. A specific area of interest is public health informatics. Public health informatics deal with the application of information along with computer science, and technology to public health practice, research, and learning. In an effort to keep public health practice at pace with all health care advances, information must be deliverable at real time to end users, which goes beyond the walls of the practice and or organization. Currently, public health is in desperate need of funding, public health education for the populace, and policy development. Public health itself addresses an array of specific challenges such as traumatic injuries, mental health, substance abuse, chronic diseases, environmental, occupational, and recently bioterrorism. Public health is founded on four pillars, prevention, science, care for medically underserved and interdependence. Having said that, the primary goal of the government is to keep Americans safe. As a result of this effort to keep America safe, four panelists met to discuss future trends, current state, and the challenges that public health faces. The four panelists are; Kristine M. Gebbie, DR. PH., RN, James S. Marks, MD, MPH, Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH, C., and Earl Fox, MD, MPH. There are real threats that currently put Americans at risk for harm the panelist state. The threats consist of but are not limited to biological, chemical, radiological, terrorism, natural disaster, infectious diseases, a growing prevalence of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, asthma, and other chronic diseases across all age groups. Sixty percent of Americans are currently overweight and or obese, nine percent experience substance abuse, and twenty percent encounter mental illness in a year. The federal,
There are a host of subcategory informatics: dental, nursing, pharmacy, and physician just to name a few. A specific area of interest is public health informatics. Public health informatics deal with the application of information along with computer science, and technology to public health practice, research, and learning. In an effort to keep public health practice at pace with all health care advances, information must be deliverable at real time to end users, which goes beyond the walls of the practice and or organization. Currently, public health is in desperate need of funding, public health education for the populace, and policy development. Public health itself addresses an array of specific challenges such as traumatic injuries, mental health, substance abuse, chronic diseases, environmental, occupational, and recently bioterrorism. Public health is founded on four pillars, prevention, science, care for medically underserved and interdependence. Having said that, the primary goal of the government is to keep Americans safe. As a result of this effort to keep America safe, four panelists met to discuss future trends, current state, and the challenges that public health faces. The four panelists are; Kristine M. Gebbie, DR. PH., RN, James S. Marks, MD, MPH, Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH, C., and Earl Fox, MD, MPH. There are real threats that currently put Americans at risk for harm the panelist state. The threats consist of but are not limited to biological, chemical, radiological, terrorism, natural disaster, infectious diseases, a growing prevalence of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, asthma, and other chronic diseases across all age groups. Sixty percent of Americans are currently overweight and or obese, nine percent experience substance abuse, and twenty percent encounter mental illness in a year. The federal,