Webinar: Public Health Information Supply Chain: Findings and Implications

Webinar: Public Health Information Supply Chain: Findings and Implications

Please join Vivian Singletary and Juneka Rembert of the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII)Tuesday, February 12th, from 2:00 -3:00 pm EST for a webinar on Public Health Information Exchange capacity in the states of California and Massachusetts

In order to help public health organizations better understand the process for exchanging notifiable disease data, The Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII), hosted by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), will present a webinar on their recent project, titled “Public Health Information Exchange Capacity.” This project sought to document the information exchange process involved in sharing notifiable disease data from local level, to the state level, and finally to the CDC. The findings of this report will help public health departments:

• Understand the current state of notifiable disease data exchange in different states:
• Learn of the challenges to disease data exchange for both State and Local Health Departments:
• Receive recommendations for improve the notifiable disease data exchange process.

This project also sought to determine the level of effort needed to gather and report notifiable disease data.

Please email any questions about this webinar to Matthew DeLeon at mdeleon@naccho.org

NACCHO – PHII Webinar this Monday, June 23rd “Building Informatics Capacity Through Workforce Development”

Please join NACCHO and PHII this Monday, June 23rd for an exciting webinar on building informatics capacity in local health departments through workforce development!

UPCOMING WEBINAR JUNE 23 BUILDING INFORMATICS CAPACITY THROUGH WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

Title: Building Informatics Capacity through Workforce Development
Date: June 23, 2014
Time: 3:00- 4:00 PM EDT
Join: Reserve your Webinar seat now: http://naccho.adobeconnect.com/wfdev2014/event/registration.html

Description:
The challenges to building the informatics capabilities of public health agencies are many and varied. A common challenge is related to workforce development activities to recruit, select, hire, train and retain individuals that have the combination of skills and competencies needed by informatics professionals. Some of these challenges are related to establishing competitive salaries, finding individuals with the appropriate skill sets and distinguishing between IT and Informatics positions, skills, knowledge and abilities.

The webinar presentation is intended to:

• Increase awareness of common workforce related challenges to building informatics capability.
• Increase awareness of products and resources that are available to assist local health agency staff to develop informatics position descriptions.
• Provide an opportunity to hear how your colleagues have addressed informatics challenges in their organizations.

In 2013, CDC sponsored an opportunity that supported NACCHO and the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII) to develop useful tools to assist public health agency staff to address of these issues. As an emerging discipline, the resources to assist public health agencies to establish informatics capacity at an agency level were limited. The partners established a process to draft, review and create example position descriptions for public health agencies to utilize within their organizations to establish informatics positions. These included sample position descriptions for the executive, management, clinical, and professional levels, and a brief description of a professional career ladder that describes the various positions for professionals that seek further career growth. A cross-walk document that links informatics competencies to tasks and duties was also created to assist agencies to develop position descriptions for various types of informatics jobs.

Short Course by the Public Health Informatics Institute's Informatics Academy - Register Now!

Back by popular demand, the Public Health Informatics Institute will be offering its popular online short course Designing and Managing Public Health Information Systems: 8 Steps to Success again this fall.

This is an 8-week instructor-supported, distance learning course. It is designed to equip public health practitioners to communicate their information system needs more effectively and participate more fully in information technology projects that support their work. Weekly webinars with the instructors provide participants with the unique opportunity to share experiences and learn best practices from peers.

The course starts the week of October 14th. Course enrollment is limited and registration ends Friday October 4th, so register here now! For more details, check out the course overview and FAQs, or email informatics.academy@phii.org.

New PHII Course: Registration Open

The Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII) is announcing its first ever distance-based course. In partnership with UNC Chapel Hill, PHII's Informatics Academy will be delivering a blended approach course in public health informatics entitled "Designing and Managing Public Health Information Systems: 8 Steps to Success." The target audience for this course is mid-level career public health practitioners. PHII specifically seeks teams of 3 people from a health department that are working on an informatics project.

The course will enable participants to: 

• Provide strategic guidance to your technical teams
• Effectively communicate your health information system needs
• Improve processes within your agency for better automation
• Develop valuable skills for career opportunities in public health informatics

This course will take place over 8 weeks and will be delivered as an instructor-supported distance learning course with interactive webinars, a self-paced eLearning module, and supporting materials and review activities. 

Course Dates: June 16th - August 9th, 2013

Registration Deadline: Friday, June 7th

View the course flyer

To register or request more information, please contact informatics.academy@phii.org.