Kyabaggu Ramona, Marshall Deneice, Ebuwei Patience, Ikenyei Uche
Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy University of Regina Regina, SK Canada.
Department of Health Information Sciences Faculty of Information and Media Studies Western University London, ON Canada.
JMIR Infodemiology. 2022 Apr 28;2(1):e35014. doi: 10.2196/35014. eCollection 2022 Jan-Jun.
The health information management (HIM) field's contribution to health care delivery is invaluable in a pandemic context where the need for accurate diagnoses will hasten responsive, evidence-based decision-making. The COVID-19 pandemic offers a unique opportunity to transform the practice of HIM and bring more awareness to the role that frontline workers play behind the scenes in safeguarding reliable, comprehensive, accurate, and timely health information. This transformation will support future research, utilization management, public health surveillance, and forecasting and enable key stakeholders to plan and ensure equitable health care resource allocation, especially for the most vulnerable populations. In this paper, we juxtapose critical health literacy, public policy, and HIM perspectives to understand the COVID-19 infodemic and new opportunities for HIM in infodemic management.
在大流行背景下，健康信息管理（HIM）领域对医疗保健服务的贡献是无价的，因为在这种情况下，准确诊断的需求将加速基于证据的响应式决策。2019冠状病毒病大流行提供了一个独特的机会，可转变健康信息管理的实践，并提高人们对一线工作人员在幕后保障可靠、全面、准确和及时的健康信息方面所发挥作用的认识。这一转变将支持未来的研究、利用管理、公共卫生监测和预测，并使关键利益相关者能够规划并确保公平的医疗资源分配，尤其是为最脆弱的人群。在本文中，我们将关键健康素养、公共政策和健康信息管理视角并列起来，以了解2019冠状病毒病信息疫情以及健康信息管理在信息疫情管理中的新机遇。
