STAT6001 Public Health Informatics Assignment – Laureate University AU.

Subject Code & Title : STAT6001 Public Health Informatics
Assessment : Assessment 1: Report – Summarising Public Health Informatics (including evaluation)
Individual/Group : Individual
Length : 2,500 words
Weighting : 40%
STAT6001 Public Health Informatics Assignment – Laureate University AU.

Learning Outcomes :
This assessment addresses the following learning outcomes:
1. Synthesise knowledge of public health informatics
2. Analyse the role of ICT in public health management and health care access and service delivery.
3. Examine global and national legislation and strategies for ICT applications in health
4. Apply critical reasoning skills to assess and report on the effectiveness of an ICT project
5. Evaluate the innovative use of ICT, including m Health,e Health and social media strategies for health promotion, disease outbreak and risk communication,emergencies and disaster response.
6. Evaluate the ways that systems, infrastructure and resources can constrain the effective applications of ICT.

Instructions:

In this assessment, you will follow two parts:
1.Twitter Review:
Follow three public health-related Twitter accounts and summarise what you have learned from following these feeds for 5 weeks (from Week 1 to week 5 of the trimester). Critique on how Twitter as a social media tool, can be utilised for informed public health informatics field. Note that you will need to create a Twitter account. You may pick up accounts from the following list .

STAT6001 Public Health Informatics Assignment – Laureate University AU.

o @Croakey blog
o @ehealth paho
o @equity list
o @The Marmot Review
o @Rural Mental_Hth
o @Digital Health
o @eHealth A us
o @J Med Internet Res
o @Healthy policies
o @AU Mental Health
o @tele medicine_Jn

2.Telemedicine in Australia (1000 words)
Summarise the barriers to the uptake of telemedicine in Australia based on articles provided in the learning resources and wider literature (last 5 years). Classify them into ICT issues and management issues and evaluate current methods.In your opinion, what are the key barriers and how can these be addressed? Provide suggestions and practical recommendations based on evidence.

STAT6001 Public Health Informatics Assignment – Laureate University AU.