All Blogs, Inside the Institute - January 7, 2014 Celebrating the life and work of Bill Watson Piper Hale, MPH The Public Health Informatics Institute mourns the recent passing of Bill Watson, friend, leader and titan of innovation in public health. Read More >
All Blogs, Director's Blog - December 2, 2013 Clean Sweeps in the Rust Belt: Buffalo, NY Uses Big Data to Improve Neighborhoods Shawn Eastridge In Buffalo, NY, city departments are working together as part of the Operation Clean Sweep program to improve the most challenged neighborhoods. Read More >
All Blogs, Director's Blog - November 21, 2013 “Struck by Orca”: An Illustrated Guide to ICD-10 Shawn Eastridge A new illustrated book pokes fun at bizarre ICD-10 codes like “Z62.891 Sibling rivalry” and “W56.22xA Struck by orca, initial encounter.” Read More >
All Blogs, Director's Blog - November 14, 2013 Empowering Public Health: The Creation and Adoption of Standards Shawn Eastridge PHII recently provided recommendations on public health standards to the National Committee for Vital and Health Statistics at their request. Read More >
All Blogs, Director's Blog - October 20, 2013 Moving Towards an Enterprise Approach to Public Health Shawn Eastridge 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. Read More >
All Blogs, Director's Blog - October 17, 2013 The Legacy of All Kids Count Shawn Eastridge 16 years ago, PHII began as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded program called All Kids Count. Read More >