Health IT As a Tool for Prevention in Public Health Policies

With discussions on electronic health, health informatics, and electronic medical records (EMRs), this book discusses the state of Health IT (HIT) in the United States, the book examines the converging problems of chronic disease in the U.S., societal welfare, childhood obesity, and lack of healthcare for the economically disadvantaged. It also discusses how technology can bridge the gap among populations that suffer from high levels of public health concerns and provides innovative public policy solutions to the community's problems.

Divya Srinivasan Sridhar works in the field of public policy. She has developed her knowledge and experience at a number of public policy organizations including the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), National Housing Trust (NHT), Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Verite Healthcare Consulting (VHC), and more. She has delved into a variety of public policy issues during her internships and graduate programs, and has published and written papers on electronic government, social policy, and healthcare, including health reform, healthcare IT, and health informatics. She completed her bachelor’s degree at Texas A&M University in Finance, her master’s degree in Public Policy from UT (University of Texas) Dallas, specializing in social policy/health policy research, and is now working on her PhD in Public Policy at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia. Srinivasan is the author of Impact of Healthcare Informatics on Quality of Patient Care and Health Services (CRC Press, 2013).