Public health decision making requires access to data to identify health disparities, implement prevention efforts, and ensure health care access. Clinical care is being transformed by advancing analytic methods applying a large volume and variety of data. However, these benefits have yet to be realized in rural public health, which faces a lack of access to quality data to understand communities’ needs¹ and is impacted by a lack of access to data that includes marginalized and underserved populations. These data gaps reduce rural public health’s capacity to identify and address inequities. Therefore, there is a need to support rural public health’s access to and use of data.

Learning Objective: Learn how a user-centered approach can be used to develop an informatics solution to support data access and use in rural public health practice

Authors:

Uba Backonja (Presenter)
University of Washington Tacoma

Seungeun Park, University of Washington School of Nursing
Anne Turner, University of Washington School of Medicine
India Ornelas, University of Washington School of Public Health
Greg Whitman, University of Washington
Melinda Schultz, University of Washington
Betty Bekemeier, University of Washington

Presentation Materials:

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