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October 30, 2012 | Story
As executive director of Kane County (Illinois) Health Department, Paul Kuehnert worked with the Office of Emergency Management and Animal Control authority to redesign communications related to heat emergencies and more.
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Approved in November 2008 by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) board of directors, the Program Requirements for Fellowship Education for the Subspecialty of Clinical Informatics document details the knowledge and skills to be mastered in fellowship education.
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in March 2007 for the development of two required documents for the creation of clinical informatics as a medical subspecialty. This paper examines both the context and purpose of the documents, as well as their role in AMIA's structure.
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The Core Content for Clinical Informatics document outlines four major areas of knowledge and understanding: common vocabulary and environmental understanding, clinical systems, information systems, and management skills to lead through system changes.
November 10, 2009 | Program Result Report
Can the emerging technology of reality mining - which involves inferring human relationships and behavior by measuring physical and social activity - be used to improve public health and medicine?
February 24, 2009 | Program Result Report
The Task Force for Child Survival and Development established the Public Health Informatics Institute to strengthen the information systems used in public health practice and to promote collaborative strategies for that effort.
October 30, 2012 | Program Result Report
From 2006 to 2010, Common Ground, helped 31 state and local public health agencies improve their information systems and their system performance in order to meet the challenges of bio terrorism, potential pandemics, and chronic disease.
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A study evaluating communication between local health departments (LHDs) and health care professionals in Kentucky during the outbreak of influenza H1N1 found that communication between LHDs and physicians and pharmacists was inadequate.
May 19, 2009 | Issue Brief
The second issue of LegalNotes addresses the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
National Program
To support collaborative processes among state and local public health departments to advance the use of information systems to support preparedness and manage chronic disease.