Health Officers' Exchange: Sketch Mapping for Public Health Problems

Public Health/ Health Information Exchange Collaborative: A Model for Advancing Public Health Practice

In early 2007, senior leadership in CDC’s new Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services (OSELS) examined ways to improve biosurveillance capabilities in collaboration with public and private partners. After careful consideration, it was determined that many key aspects of surveillance could be enhanced through Health Information Exchange (HIE) interactions. Approximately one ...

Public Health Problems: Tge

The Northwest Public Health Information Exchange’s Accomplishments in Connecting a Health Information Exchange with Public Health

In 2007 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Request for Proposal for the "Situational Awareness through Health Information Exchange" project. The Situational Awareness project's goals are to connect public health with health information exchanges (HIEs) to improve public health's real-time understanding of communities' population health and healthcare facility status. ...

Using health information exchange to improve public health.

Public health relies on data reported by health care partners, and information technology makes such reporting easier than ever. However, data are often structured according to a variety of different terminologies and formats, making data interfaces complex and costly. As one strategy to address these challenges, health information organizations (HIOs) have been established to allow secure, int...

Applications of Health Information Exchange Information to Public Health Practice

Increased information availability, timeliness, and comprehensiveness through health information exchange (HIE) can support public health practice. The potential benefits to disease monitoring, disaster response, and other public health activities served as an important justification for the US' investments in HIE. After several years of HIE implementation and funding, we sought to determine if...