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All Blogs - August 17, 2026 Part 3: Sustaining IIS modernization: building…
Part 3: Sustaining IIS modernization: building the future beyond implementation
PHII's IIS team offers practical approaches for sustaining IIS modernization beyond implementation by strengthening workforce capabilities, future-visioning, communicating value, and building agency capacity for long-term success.
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All Blogs - July 22, 2026 Part 2: Best practices for successful…
Part 2: Best practices for successful IIS data modernization implementation
Our IIS team shares key recommendations for successful IIS modernization, including using assessments, partner engagement, change management and data governance to align with broader public health goals.
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All Blogs - July 21, 2026 Part 1: IIS modernization: what’s different…
Part 1: IIS modernization: what’s different this time around?
PHII's IIS team examines strategies to help public health agencies shift IIS modernization from purely technical upgrades to a comprehensive approach that involves people, processes, governance, and system-wide transformation.
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All Blogs, Director's Blog - December 18, 2025 Reflecting on 2025: the…
Reflecting on 2025: the great reset in public health
PHII Director Vivian Singletary shares her reflections on the past year and looks forward to what 2026 holds.
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All Blogs - October 17, 2025 Using generative AI to automate pediatric…
Using generative AI to automate pediatric audiology diagnoses
Our audiology team shares about a system built to leverage generative artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the classification of pediatric audiology reports.
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All Blogs - March 12, 2025 The importance of governance in data…
The importance of governance in data modernization
Senior informatics analyst Sarah Shaw reflects on last year's Data Modernization Boot Camp and how it spawned their online Data Governance course.
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All Blogs, Director's Blog - December 16, 2024 Reflections on 2024 and…
Reflections on 2024 and looking forward to the new year
PHII Director Vivian Singletary celebrates our 2024 public health wins and gets ready for the opportunities and challenges in the new year.
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All Blogs - September 27, 2024 Communication plays a key role in…
Communication plays a key role in successful data modernization planning
Shawn Eastridge provides examples of public health jurisdictions emphasizing how communication is key to a successful data modernization plan.
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All Blogs - April 3, 2024 Task Force at 40: How our…
Task Force at 40: How our work and culture continue to shape each other
Task Force employees celebrated The Task Force's 40th anniversary on March 14, 2024.
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All Blogs - March 28, 2024 Tonya Duhart Miller, Associate Director of…
Tonya Duhart Miller, Associate Director of Business Operations at PHII, celebrates International Women’s Month
As March marks Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day (March 8), Task Force women in leadership reflect on their leadership philosophy, who inspires them, and what keeps them motivated to work in public health.
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All Blogs - March 6, 2024 Stories chronicle success in improving child…
Stories chronicle success in improving child and adolescent mental health
Lina Saintus highlights successful ways public health organizations have used data to measure and improve child and adolescent mental health (CAMH).
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All Blogs, Director's Blog - December 18, 2023 Reflections on the past…
Reflections on the past year and looking forward to 2024
PHII Director Vivian Singletary gives well wishes for the new year: I encourage you to embrace life. Live it to the fullest; don't wait!
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All Blogs - December 1, 2023 Immunization information systems: why they matter…
Immunization information systems: why they matter and what’s next!
PHII’s Charisse LaVell and Treonda Chapman summarize the history of immunization information systems (IIS) in the U.S., how IIS changed during COVID and what’s ahead.
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All Blogs - September 6, 2023 Exploring data modernization in action with…
Exploring data modernization in action with ‘DMI Stories from the Field’
Senior Informatics Analyst Sarah Shaw explains how “DMI Stories from the Field” illustrate what successful data modernization for states and jurisdictions looks like in practice.
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All Blogs, Director's Blog - December 16, 2022 Reflections on the year…
Reflections on the year 2022 and looking toward to 2023
Showing creativity in how we recruit and train our workforce could create a pipeline of skilled, talented people who come to public health and stay there.
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