TY - JOUR T1 - Public health in hospitals – can informatics bridge the gap? JF - Future Hospital Journal JO - Future Hosp J SP - 220 LP - 221 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.4-3-220 VL - 4 IS - 3 AU - Shamil Haroon AU - Neeraj Bhala AU - Krishnarajah Niranthara Kumar AU - Darren Wooldridge AU - Jan Hoogewerf AU - John Williams Y1 - 2017/10/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/4/3/220.abstract N2 - The NHS England Five Year Forward View emphasised the need for a ‘radical upgrade in prevention and public health’.1 Community health and social care are both engaged in preventative care, but hospitals also play a key role in this agenda.2 In 2014–15 alone, hospitals in England served 16 million finished admission episodes and over 100 million outpatient appointments.3 These encounters represent huge opportunities to provide health promotion at scale to individuals at high risk of preventable morbidity and mortality.There are a number of barriers to health promotion in hospitals, such as limited resources and a tendency to focus … ER -