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. 2017 Apr:68:184-189.
doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2017.02.011. Epub 2017 Feb 16.

Leveraging health informatics to foster a smart systems response to health disparities and health equity challenges

Timothy Jay Carney  1 , Amanda Y Kong  2
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Leveraging health informatics to foster a smart systems response to health disparities and health equity challenges

Timothy Jay Carney et al. J Biomed Inform. 2017 Apr.

Abstract

Informaticians are challenged to design health information technology (IT) solutions for complex problems, such as health disparities, but are achieving mixed results in demonstrating a direct impact on health outcomes. This presentation of collective intelligence and the corresponding terms of smart health, knowledge ecosystem, enhanced health disparities informatics capacities, knowledge exchange, big-data, and situational awareness are a means of demonstrating the complex challenges informatics professionals face in trying to model, measure, and manage an intelligent and smart systems response to health disparities. A critical piece in our understanding of collective intelligence for public and population health rests in our understanding of public and population health as a living and evolving network of individuals, organizations, and resources. This discussion represents a step in advancing the conversation of what a smart response to health disparities should represent and how informatics can drive the design of intelligent systems to assist in eliminating health disparities and achieving health equity.

Keywords: Health disparities; Health inequities; Knowledge exchange; Learning health system; Population health; Smart health; Technology assessment.

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