Optometric Care within the Public Health Community
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چکیده
The digital revolution is transforming pencil and paper medicine. Increasingly, health information is being recorded, stored, and analyzed using computerized tools. This information conversion has significant public health implications. Public health informatics: The systematic application of information science, computer science, and technology to public health practice, research, and learning(1). This chapter describes public health informatics and the key role that individual optometrists can play in the care of populations through the use of electronic health records (EHR). A case study will be examined illustrating the use of EHRs and the public health implications of the shift to digital health records.
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