PHII’s Informatics Academy is building a team of people enthusiastic about advancing education and training through technology.

In this three-part blog series, Sarah Gilbert, Director of PHII’s Informatics Academy, explores how the three focus areas of informatics – people, process, and technology – illustrate the Academy’s approach to training the public health workforce.

The history of health care information technology is a story about finding tasks technology can serve.

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 ones that take a more comprehensive, enterprise view of the need for timely, geographically-granular, and population-specific data. 

Regardless of the outcome of today's election, I hope the issue of cyberterrorism, which was briefly mentioned during the third presidential debate, receives more political attention over the next four years.

If you’re interested in how digital technology can be used to improve health outcomes, I would encourage you to read the Institute of Medicine’s workshop summary Digita