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- - April 20, 2017
A public health perspective on interoperability
In this guest blog, Noam Arzt of HLN Consulting describes challenges that public health faces around interoperability.
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- - March 31, 2017
The power of metaphors: how to communicate about public health informatics
A new video provides an overview of how metaphors can help the public health workforce better understand informatics.
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- - January 31, 2017
The Road to an Informatics-Savvy Health Department: A State and Local Experience
SHINE fellows Nicole Willis and Kim Peifer guest blog this week all about their efforts to build an informatics-savvy health department.
- All Blogs, Perspectives on Public Health
- - January 20, 2017
Filling in the blanks: communicating public health informatics
Informatics touches nearly every area of public health, but communicating the value of the discipline presents its own challenges.
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- - August 30, 2016
The next generation of electronic death registration systems
Accurate reporting of deaths in the U.S. is important for legal reasons, personal reasons and for state and national mortality statistics.
- All Blogs, Perspectives on Public Health
- - July 25, 2016
Bridge-building: collaborating on a shared vision for digital health
A recent visioning session around digital health brought together top representatives from public health, health care and health IT.
- All Blogs, Perspectives on Public Health
- - March 11, 2016
Meaningful Use lives on!
The controversial report of the demise of the Meaningful Use incentive program was greatly exaggerated.
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- - February 18, 2016
Electronic health records, population health management and public health
In the midst of a culture change in American health care, information use, as opposed to information technology, lies at the center.
- All Blogs, Perspectives on Public Health
- - December 15, 2015
“Infor-what-ics?”: Communications challenges of an emerging field
Even within the field of public health, defining the concept of "informatics" and its value continues to be a difficult task.
- All Blogs, Perspectives on Public Health
- - November 30, 2015
Information system lessons found in nature
Biology offers some useful lessons to all of us in structuring effective information systems.
- All Blogs, Perspectives on Public Health
- - July 29, 2015
Public health informatics defined
It may not be a big surprise that the top reason for visits to our website come from one simple question: What is public health informatics?
- All Blogs, Perspectives on Public Health
- - April 7, 2015
Infographic: a snapshot of the social determinants of health
This infographic shows social determinants in action in PHII's home state of Georgia.
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- - March 31, 2015
The road to becoming an informatics-savvy health department
State and local health departments around the country are challenged to increase their information capabilities in a digital era.
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- - November 14, 2014
Disruptive innovation in public health
“Disruptive innovation” is a term born in academia and bred in Silicon Valley, but does it have a place in the world of public health?