From Intervention Informatics to Prevention Informatics.

摘要

The contributions of the information science community to health care are significant,nespecially through systems supporting clinical care for individual patients, an interventionninformatics approach. Though valuable, this strategy is reactive, fails to account for numerousnenvironmental factors affecting personal health and falls short of enhancing human health onna broader scale. An unmet challenge with abundant opportunity lies in prevention informatics,na proactive approach drawing on information science and technologies to deliver greaternhealth gains at a population level. Prevention informatics is marked by a high degree socialninteractivity in real time, with technologies to bring together disparate data and represent itnin an integrated and meaningful way as the basis for action. The approach relies on standardsnfor classifying information, systematic knowledge management and improved methods toncollect, mine and visualize data. Tools and software are already in use in locations aroundnthe world, relying on smartphone technology and geographic information systems to sharencommunity health information and location data. Further advances in prevention informaticsnwill require adoption of common terminologies, visualization tools and GIS mapping, andnoptimized data exchange to support rapid prevention response