The future of health intelligence: challenges and opportunities.
Over the last 10 years, the discipline of health intelligence has come into being. This combines analysis, informatics, public health methodology, skills and interpretation. We have come a long way but there remains a long way to go. In particular, a number of challenges for the next 10 years are articulated, namely: the right information at the right time; real-time data; barriers to information access; and knowledge transfer.
Flowers
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Institute of Public Health, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK. julian.flowers@erpho.org.uk
Ferguson
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D022126:Access to Information; D005544:Forecasting; D040442:Public Health Informatics / Q000639:trends*; D015980:Public Health Practice; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom