The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the opportunity, and importance, of the health informatics discipline demonstrated by the widespread utilization of health informatics applications, especially eHealth, telehealth, and telemedicine. Discuss any eHealth/Telehealth/Telemedicine application you may have used during the COVID-19 pandemic to access/provide healthcare services. What was your experience of using it and how would you compare it with an in-person visit to your provider? What specific policy changes allowed for the expansion of eHealth/Telehealth/Telemedicine? Are those changes permanent? Identify one positive and one negative consequence of such expansion. Could the negative event be minimized? How?
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see attached. Considering the critical importance of effective communication during a disaster, discuss the challenges and solutions related to ensuring interoperability among different communication systems used by various emergency response agencies. How can these agencies overcome technological and organizational barriers to maintain seamless communication during a crisis. Your journal entry