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ASTHO & ISDS Webinar – March 4, 2015 “Public Health Community Platform: A future solution for a modern public health enterprise”

Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Time: 12:00PM – 1:00 PM EST (5:00 PM – 6:00 PM GMT)

Presenters:

Marcus Rennick, Director, Informatics Standards, ASTHO

Wayne Loschen, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL)

Description:

The Public Health Community Platform (PHCP) is a CDC-funded ASTHO project envisioned to provide Universal access to modernized shared resources that efficiently, securely, and collaboratively transform data into action for a healthier nation.

Over the past four decades, the public health enterprise has developed a wide variety of computer-based information systems to improve the ways data are collected, shared, and analyzed. The proliferation of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and other online data sets makes information more accessible and useful than ever before. There are, however, challenges in unleashing the full power of these resources.

The current state of health information systems remains fragmented and insufficient to tackle the complexity and volume of the data that is already flowing. As with much computer-based technology in the past, these data systems and software were originally created on an as-needed basis, usually customized precisely to the needs of a particular program and not envisioned with an external compatibility in mind.

As the world becomes smaller with public health issues transcending geographies, working together and integrating systems and data will be crucial in preventing, detecting, and responding to issues that endanger the public’s health.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of the presentation, attendees will be able to…
1. Describe the current state of development for the PHCP
2. Identify the efficiencies and value in leveraging cloud-based technology
3. Identify potential future uses for a community-developed PHCP

(https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3902744375043248130)

Learn more about this webinar on our website.

Joint PH Forum & CDC Nationwide Webinar – February 19, 2015

Meeting Invitation for:

Date:    Thursday, February 19, 2015 

Time:    3:00 pm Eastern Time / 2:00 pm Central Time / 1:00 pm Mountain Time / 12:00 pm Pacific Time

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Dear Public Health Forum Members & Colleagues:

The meeting agenda and the webinar registration information are provided below.

Important Notes:

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Agenda

• Announcements (CDC and ONC) – [5 minutes]
• Presentation: RCKMS: Helping Advance Electronic Case Reporting – [40 minutes]

Presenters/Panel Members: 

Laura A. Conn, MPH, Director, Health Information Strategy Unit, Office of Public Health Scientific Services (OPHSS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Lauri Smithee, PhD, Director Acute Disease Service, Oklahoma State Department of Health

Ryan M. Arnold, MPH, Biostatistician, Houston Department of Health and Human Services

Description:

The reportable conditions system is a cornerstone of public health surveillance.  Each Public Health Jurisdictions maintains a list of conditions that are reportable to them, along with associated criteria that should be met before a report is sent (e.g., combinations of demographic, lab, clinical criteria). Accurate, timely and complete reporting of reportable conditions depends on reporters having correct and current information about this “who, what, when, where, and how” of reporting.  To support automated detection and electronic reporting, these reporting criteria must transition from the currently available human-readable text to machine-consumable representations.

The Reportable Conditions Knowledge Management System (RCKMS) pilot project has several main objectives:

• To create an administration tool to catalog and manage jurisdictional reporting specifications for pilot conditions that can be extended into a single, comprehensive, authoritative, real-time portal for all conditions.
• To provide reporting specification in both human-readable text and machine-consumable rules that can be used within a Reporter’s Clinical Decision Support system (CDS) or within OpenCDS via a web service call.
• To use the lessons learned in assessing variability across pilot conditions and jurisdictions to draft processes and patterns to further reduce variations and determine where criteria can be streamlined.
• To improve the common understanding of stakeholder’s perspectives (e.g., state and local PH, CDC, vendors/ implementers, reporters) across the case reporting flow.

• Question and Answer Session – [15 minutes]

Webinar Registration Instructions

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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