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NR 360 Unit 6 Discussion: Informatics and the Development of StandardsDiscuss the roles of federal, state, and local public health agencies in the development of
standards for informatics in healthcare.
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Data and communication in healthcare are essential to define our roles and responsibilities,
educate us on better ways to implement safer patient care strategies, and guide us in the work we
do each day. Informatics serves other facets of public health including emergency response,
environmental health, nursing and administration. Governments at every level—federal, tribal,
state, and local—play important roles in protecting, preserving, and promoting the public’s
health and safety (Gostin, 2000, 2002). In the United States, the government’s responsibility for
the health of its citizens stems, in part, from the nature of democracy itself. Several laws are out
there to protect privacy of the patients and federal, state and local public health play important
roles in the development of standards for informatics.
Role of federal in the development of standards for informatics in healthcare:
· The federal government acts in six main areas related to population health: (1) policy making,
(2) financing, (3) public health protection, (4) collecting and disseminating information about
U.S. health and health care delivery systems, (5) capacity building for population health, and (6)
direct management of services (Boufford and Lee, 2001). For most of its history, the U.S.
Supreme Court has granted the federal government broad powers under the Constitution to
protect the public’s health and safety. Under the power to “regulate Commerce . . . among
several states” and other constitutional powers, the federal government acts in areas such as
environmental protection, occupational health and safety, and food and drug purity (Gostin,
2000). The federal government may set conditions on the expenditure of federal funds (e.g.,
require adoption of a minimum age of 21 for legal consumption of alcoholic beverages to receive
Federal-Aid Highway.
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