The
Institute methodology helps public health professionals
engage stakeholders, analyze business processes, develop
requirements, and evaluate results.
The Public Health Informatics Institute Our
mission is
to advance public health practitioners’ ability
to strategically manage and apply health information systems. Our
approach to health information systems combines best practices
in informatics with
knowledge and experience in public health and health care. Our extensive
experience working in the field with our customers gives us an in-depth
understanding of the economic, organizational, and political realities
facing public health and health care practitioners.
Institute
launches RWJF National Program Office The
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has announced that the Public
Health Informatics Institute will serve as the National
Program Office for its new grant program, Common
Ground: Transforming Public Health Information
Systems. The program
seeks to strengthen state and local public health departments
by changing how they conceive and develop information systems
to better serve their communities. (Photo courtesy of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.)
New
report focuses on childhood obesity information needs Childhood obesity now
ranks among the nation’s most significant health problems,
and the number of children affected is increasing at an alarming
rate. The Institute, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, presents its findings from interviews with representatives
of nine stakeholder groups on their childhood obesity activities
and information needs.
Taking Care
of Business!Understanding
the business processes of public health is the key to developing
information systems that support the work of all public health
agencies. A new report and web
conference explain how collaborative business
process analysis is a powerful tool for developing effective
information systems and improving performance.
Unique Records Portfolio tackles deduplication dilemma As
public health agencies increasingly integrate information
from multiple sources, the problem of uniquely identifying
individuals and removing duplicate records in a database
has grown more complex. Now, a Connections workgroup has
developed a framework for understanding deduplication principles
and concepts.
