The Future of Global Health
Introduction
In a world of uncertainties, the unpredictable spread of disease raises significant concerns, emphasising the importance of accurate tracking and reporting for global health. The publication Multinational Electronic Health Records Interoperability Strategies (ISBN:9781799889892) addresses the significance of this issue, offering insightful information on the impact of health records and its reporting systems.
The Impact of Global Health Records
Multinational Electronic Health Records Interoperability Strategies:
Multinational Electronic Health Records Interoperability Strategies aims to foster a global initiative for enhancing public health systems through the implementation of interoperable electronic health records (EHR) and health information exchanges (HIE) that facilitate multinational information sharing.
EHRs are digital files of patient health data that monitor patients’ treatment information and history, check-ups, and preventative care measures.
Traditional EHR Systems:
Traditional EHR systems enable the real-time sharing of patient data within a closed network or system. Nonetheless, these systems lack interoperability, preventing the exchange of information across non-local regions or international borders, which are traditional migration patterns of communicable diseases.
Factors such as global trade, international travel, logistics, and interoperability shortfalls have contributed to the outbreak of zoonotic infestations. Zoonotic diseases can spread rapidly worldwide, yet current EHR systems are not interoperable with non-regional or international EHR systems, as well as foreign industries and technologies which promote disease transmission. This limitation impedes productive disease surveillance, and when combined with modifications to International Health Regulations in 1969 and 2005, the global disease burden becomes a national public health concern.
Transitioning to a Global Approach:
On a global scale, the disease has wiped out more lives than all wars in history combined. To prevent the multinational disease from propagating, it is important to transition from traditional EHR systems to adopting multinational systems that harness the power of various governments, techniques, and experts.
However, implementing such changes requires careful and deliberate collaboration between countries, learning from past mistakes, and ensuring that any international solution to disease migration fulfils the needs of all nations—not just affluent ones, but also the low-income and middle-income countries.
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