Overview
Information and communications
technology have become the cornerstones of public health practice
in the 21st century. At a time when communities are preparing to respond
to any public health crisis in a matter of hours and even minutes,
the speed with which we communicate and access information becomes
crucial. Online resources, innovative software, and sophisticated
equipment provide the necessary tools, but it is the exchange of information
that makes a difference in a wired community. Across cities, states,
and countries, these exchanges strengthen our public health infrastructure
and allow the public health workforce to apply the latest and most
relevant research to their everyday practice. Join us as we share
the vision of Blacksburg, Virginia, a community that is improving the
practice of public health by building relationships, investing in information
technology, and communicating with the world.
Objectives
- Describe an electronic
community network.
- Identify three
informatics competencies that are key to success in establishing
and maintaining an electronic community network.
- Identify three
ways in which an electronic community network promotes the overall
health and well being of the community.
- Describe the
National Library of Medicine's (NLM) role in providing electronic
resources to the local public health workforce and their community
partners.
Target
Audience
Public health and
civic leaders, managers, and professionals from local and state government
agencies, public health libraries, boards of health, community organizations,
academic institutions, federal agencies, and others who seek to learn
more about how electronic networks, informatics competencies, and on-line
resources foster communication and learning among the public health
workforce and their community partners.

This program was produced with the generous support of the National
Library of Medicine
No presenter in this program has a financial interest
or other relationship with manufacturers of commercial
products, providers of commercial services or commercial
supporters.
No presenter in this program will discuss the unlabeled
use of commercial products or products for investigational
use.
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