PGCC Public Health Agencies Involved with Health Informatics Summary
Review the government agencies and policy-making institutions involved with health informatics.
- Summarize agencies involved and describe at least 2 of them.
- Please include a link to at least one figure that demonstrates the organization of the government structure.
- Include in your discussion an analysis of HITECH, ARRA, two of the most far-reaching pieces of legislation related to the field and at least one new piece of (health informatics related) legislation that has been passed.
- Describe the impact of these three pieces of legislation on the field of health informatics.
- Briefly describe specifically how these agencies support or could better support public health informatics.
