All Blogs, Perspectives on Public Health - October 6, 2022 PHII celebrates 30 years Shawn Eastridge Read More >
All Blogs, Perspectives on Public Health - 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. Read More >
All Blogs, Perspectives on Public Health - 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. Read More >
All Blogs, Perspectives on Public Health - January 31, 2017 The Road to an Informatics-Savvy Health Department: A State and Local Experience Piper Hale, MPH SHINE fellows Nicole Willis and Kim Peifer guest blog this week all about their efforts to build an informatics-savvy health department. Read More >
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. Read More >
All Blogs, Perspectives on Public Health - 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. Read More >
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. Read More >
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. Read More >
All Blogs, Perspectives on Public Health - 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. Read More >
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. Read More >
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. Read More >
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? Read More >
All Blogs, Perspectives on Public Health - April 7, 2015 Infographic: a snapshot of the social determinants of health Piper Hale, MPH This infographic shows social determinants in action in PHII's home state of Georgia. Read More >
All Blogs, Perspectives on Public Health - 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. Read More >
All Blogs, Perspectives on Public Health - 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? Read More >