
370 | CHAPTER 21 Using Informatics to Promote Community/Population Health
The initiative of integrating the healthcare enterprise to improve how health-
care information can be shared more easily and used more effectively has created
the domain of Quality, Research and Public Health (QRPH). Domain participants
address the repurposing of clinical, demographic, and financial data collected in
the process of providing clinical care to the monitoring of disease patterns; inci-
dence, prevalence, and situational awareness of such patterns; and to the identifi-
cation of new patterns of disease not previously known or anticipated. Such data
can be incorporated ...