期刊名称：Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science
出版年度：2011
卷号：38
期号：1
出版社：American Society for Information Science and Technology
摘要：The contributions of the information science community to health care are significant,
especially through systems supporting clinical care for individual patients, an intervention
informatics approach. Though valuable, this strategy is reactive, fails to account for numerous
environmental factors affecting personal health and falls short of enhancing human health on
a broader scale. An unmet challenge with abundant opportunity lies in prevention informatics,
a proactive approach drawing on information science and technologies to deliver greater
health gains at a population level. Prevention informatics is marked by a high degree social
interactivity in real time, with technologies to bring together disparate data and represent it
in an integrated and meaningful way as the basis for action. The approach relies on standards
for classifying information, systematic knowledge management and improved methods to
collect, mine and visualize data. Tools and software are already in use in locations around
the world, relying on smartphone technology and geographic information systems to share
community health information and location data. Further advances in prevention informatics
will require adoption of common terminologies, visualization tools and GIS mapping, and
optimized data exchange to support rapid prevention response.
关键词：medical informatics geospatial information
biomedical information electronic visualization
medical science controlled vocabularies
mobile applications
