FORMAL TOPIC PROPOSAL for Exploratory Essay

FORMAL TOPIC PROPOSAL

Theme:

Topic:

Who is impacted by the issues related to your topic:

Your personal context (experience, values and other areas relevant to your perspective). See Assignment 1.4 for the original Personal Context Assignment.

Your main issue question:

At least 5 information questions related to your topic:

Search terms you will use:

Your current opinion on the issue question:

Three (3) complete and correctly formatted MLA citations for sources accessed through library databases and written for a general audience on your topic. You don’t need to have read them, and you’re not required to use them, but this list will ensure that you can find source material on your topic.

Three (3) complete and correctly formatted MLA citations for three SCHOLARLY sources accessed through library databases. Again, you don’t need to have read them, and you’re not required to use these particular sources, but this list will ensure that there is source material available on your topic.

ANSWER

Formal Topic Proposal

Theme: Information Systems and Public Health Entities

Topic: Data Sharing for Effective Health Assessment and Treatment.

People Impacted: Clinical and Public Health practitioners.

Personal Context: Health information sharing means a health community including the one I live in including faster and more efficient diagnosis and prognosis.

Question related to the topic:

1. Is it vital to align public data standards with clinical data records?
2. If achieved, what are the benefits of these data sharing frameworks?

• What would be required to achieve this data alignment?

1. What would this integration mean for the public?
2. What are the steps to be taken towards this achievement?

Search Terms

1. Public health data
2. Clinical data
3. Data stewardship standards
4. Medical health data transactions
5. Public-private health data partnerships

Opinion: Digital data is a vital component to the understanding of health and disease control and for that reason should be shared among all health practitioners to the benefit of their patients.

Sources:

Institute of Medicine (US). Sharing Clinical Research Data: Workshop Summary. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2013 Mar 29. 5, Standardization to Enhance Data Sharing. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK137818/

Institute of Medicine (US); Grossmann C, Powers B, McGinnis JM, editors. Digital Infrastructure for the Learning Health System: The Foundation for Continuous Improvement in Health and Health Care: Workshop Series Summary. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2011. 6, Stewardship, and Governance in the Learning Health System. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK83560/

Mikles, S. P., Wiltz, J. L., Reed-Fourquet, L., Painter, I. S., & Lober, W. B. (2017). Utilizing Standard Data Transactions and Public-Private Partnerships to Support Healthy Weight Within the Community. EGEMS (Washington, DC), 5(1), 21. https://doi.org/10.5334/egems.242

Rosenbaum S. Data governance and stewardship: designing data stewardship entities and advancing data access. Health Serv Res. 2010;45(5 Pt 2):1442-1455. doi:10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01140