Roles of Federal, State, and Local Public Health Agencies in Healthcare

Roles of Federal, State, and Local Public Health Agencies in Healthcare
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Roles of Federal, State, and Local Public Health Agencies in Healthcare
The local, state, and federal public health agencies hold significant responsibilities in the development of the nursing standards for informatics in the healthcare sector. In particular, health informatics standards ensure that the medical specific applications used by citizens, clinicians, and patients are safe and suit their intended purpose.
The federal laws play vital roles in the creation of standards of informatics in the medical sector by making policies, funding health institutions, and safeguarding public health (Institute of Medicine, 2003). Additionally, they gather and disseminate relevant information about healthcare delivery in the country, build health infrastructure to accommodate the available population, and manage the information infrastructure. These agencies also ensure that patient data is well-protected to fulfill the constitutional requirement, which depicts that people have the right to privacy.
The state public health agencies are not left behind, and they enforce the nursing policies of informatics in a specific region. They also come up with measures that local health agencies should implement to safeguard the well-being of patients, physicians, and the public (Kaufman et al., 2014). As a result, state public health agencies engage in various activities that improve the standards of informatics in healthcare.