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- December 2, 2013

Clean Sweeps in the Rust Belt: Buffalo, NY Uses Big Data to Improve Neighborhoods

In Buffalo, NY, city departments are working together as part of the Operation Clean Sweep program to improve the most challenged neighborhoods.

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- November 21, 2013

“Struck by Orca”: An Illustrated Guide to ICD-10

A new illustrated book pokes fun at bizarre ICD-10 codes like “Z62.891 Sibling rivalry” and “W56.22xA Struck by orca, initial encounter.”

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- November 14, 2013

Empowering Public Health: The Creation and Adoption of Standards

PHII recently provided recommendations on public health standards to the National Committee for Vital and Health Statistics at their request.

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- October 20, 2013

Moving Towards an Enterprise Approach to Public Health

With the advent of large scale automation in the personal health care sector, public health has the opportunity to move from narrowly-viewed surveillance systems to an enterprise view.

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- October 17, 2013

The Legacy of All Kids Count

16 years ago, PHII began as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded program called All Kids Count.

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- October 7, 2013

Embracing Wikipedia to Improve Population Health

In a recent interview from The Atlantic, one medical school professor said writing off Wikipedia entirely is a missed opportunity for the health care community.

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