Discuss the challenges of privacy and confidentiality within the history and evolution of public health informatics.

What opportunities will the migration to an EHR and the implementation of a RHIO provide to address these challenges?

Address the following issues with establishing a county-wide RHIO:

Identify and discuss the privacy concerns about the collection and distribution of health information across the RHIO.

Describe the access rights of individuals and any groups to the data collected and stored by the RHIO.

Identify and explain interoperability standards deployed by the RHIO.

Propose a list of policies and mandates that would ensure maintenance of confidentiality and privacy of protected health information as mentioned in the above issues.

Evaluate and identify the best tools or system of public health informatics to manage the county's public health information and explain how that tool or system will uphold privacy.

Give examples of how key public health information systems in the United States use these policies and mandates to guarantee the security, confidentiality, and accessibility of the data they contain.

Describe some of the search tools available to locate and analyze public health data.

Examine how the policies, mandates, tools, and standards that have evolved in the development of RHIOs might contribute to a global strategy for use of information technology (IT) in healthcare to reduce health inequity.