Three years since her passing, the Public Health Informatics Institute still mourns the loss of friend and colleague, Dr. Claire Loe.

Is your agency in the process of becoming more informatics-savvy? Perhaps you have either heard of or have already taken the Informatics-Savvy Health Department self-assessment tool and are leveraging relevant resources.

We have written previously about interoperability and its increasing importance to public health. Yet public health has some specific challenges to making interoperability effective:

With many exciting projects in the works, PHII’s Practice Support unit is thrilled to welcome a new project manager, Michael DeMayo, MPH, to its team. Michael brings with him over two decades of experience managing a variety of public health initiatives.

Editor’s note: Recently on “Inform Me, Informatics,” Nicole Willis described how Whatcom County, Washington used PHII’s self-assessment tool on building an informatics-savvy health department.

Presenting Vivian Singletary as the new leader of PHII gives me joy for many reasons. Along with her talents and energy for the job, I also recognize that she inherits an organization that has many strengths.