Summarizing Public Health Informatics Report 2022

Assessment 1
Report –Summarizing Public Health Informatics

Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Findings from Twitter Accounts......................................................................................................3
@DigitalHealth............................................................................................................................3
@ehealthpaho...............................................................................................................................4
@_PHAA_...................................................................................................................................4
Application of Twitter in Public Health Informatics Field.............................................................8
Strengths of using Twitter...............................................................................................................9
Critique of utilizing Twitter.............................................................................................................9
Challenges, barriers and limitations of twitter in public health.....................................................10
Future of Twitter............................................................................................................................10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11
Part 2: Introduction........................................................................................................................12
Barriers to the uptake.....................................................................................................................12
Potential infrastructural support available in support to telemedicine and few Recommendations
to address the challenges...............................................................................................................14
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................15
References......................................................................................................................................16

Introduction
Public Health Informatics is defined as the analytical implementation of information, computer
science and advance technology to public health groundwork, proceedings and learnings
comprising of various health promotions, preventions and making better health services and
reporting. This field majorly focuses on the applicability of information science & relevant
technology that further promotes the health of the society; disease prevention and it also
monitors the operations largely in context to government. Health practitioners are aware of the
usage of computers, networks and database but they are not much aware of the usefulness of the
public health informatics. Information technology has the power to enhance and even revamp
public health practice. These days, social media tools are being used prominently in almost all
fields. Social media networking sites are used in public health due to the barriers like adequate
funding and less number of available resources. Public health professionals are utilizing these
tools, especially Twitter as a medium to facilitate the well being of people and their individual
professional development (Hart, Stetten, & Islam, 2017). Social media has the potential to
revamp public health communication amid people and organizations or agencies. Twitter is
considered to be one of the social media’s ICT tool which is followed by 262 million
international account holders (Thackeray, Neiger, & Wagenen, 2012). We are residing in
the age of immense change, where learning from previous experiences, innovations and
exchanging of opinions and ideas is utmost important to deliver the promises of electronic health
(e-health).
This report aims to evaluate the usage of the social media platform, especially the twitter
accounts for the promotion of public health informatics. The first part of this document shares

the information gathered from three different public health-related accounts on Twitter and it
also critiques how Twitter can be used as a social media tool for public health informatics field.
Findings from Twitter Accounts
@DigitalHealth
Digital Health Service organization provides the digital productivity training applicable to all the
industries which are equipped with modern communication technologies (O’Carrol, 2017).
Detailing a 20% expansion in efficiency, (DHS)Digital Health Service preparing workshops to
enhance the performance by assisting individuals to oversee their computerized instruments. This
account has been created in 2008. The HR managers and executives are helped so that they can
raise the performance of their organizations by excelling in digital technology use. Digital Health
is fundamental to the reduced stress and efficient communication of well-being; knowledge
sharing & working; innovation capability to collaborate. https://twitter.com/digitalhealth
The training sessions do not permit the trainees to use any computer or other technology-aided
equipment. Moreover, it enables the participants to reveal good and bad digital habits, de-clutter
the digital tools and make an improved version of their own, attainable action plan of
modifications required for the improvement in the performance. The experiences shared by the
followers and tweeters show that Digital Health benefits the people under high stress and the
ones with low productivity, where the digital tools used by them have become a drain on their
productivity.