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The Glossary provides an explanation of terms specifically related to CoPs and those associated with the PHIN Communities of Practice.

Blog — Website, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.

Chat Room — Online-based, sometimes moderated communications taking place in real time.

CoCHIS — CDC’s Coordinating Center for Health Information Services; NCPHI is one of the 3 Centers within CoCHIS.

Community — Group of people who come together to interact, discuss, share ideas, and collaborate.

Community of Practice — Group of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise by interacting on an ongoing basis.

Communities of Practice Program (CoPP) — Group comprised of CDC/NCPHI federal employees and contractors charged with supporting and guiding the activities of the PHIN Community and PHIN CoPs.

Domain — Shared interest that provides the incentive and passion for the community to come together.

Enterprise Architecture Community of Practice (EA CoP) — The EA CoP brings together enterprise architects to work collaboratively with the programmatic, informatics, and IT communities to share ideas, find solutions, and build upon the foundation of enterprise architecture. This EA CoP seeks to increase the use of enterprise architecture in the decision making processes within PHIN while facilitating the introduction of best practices.

Governance Document — Document that will outline the processes, procedures, accountability, and responsibilities of the PHIN Communities of Practice Council (CoPC), each Community of Practice, the PHIN Community and the Communities of Practice Program. It is a working document, meant to change over time, and is currently in development by members of the CoPC. Once the governance document is established, there will be a standard practice for updating and modifying it to suit the PHIN CoPs needs.

Information Links Collaborative Project (InfoLinks CoP) — The InfoLinks CoP builds, improves, and promotes Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) within public health systems. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) funded community of practice is supported by CDC and the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII) and has over 21 state, local, territorial, and other public health members.

Electronic Laboratory Reporting Community of Practice (ELR CoP) — The ELR CoP brings together PHIN stakeholders nationwide involved in defining, implementing, maintaining, evaluating, and evolving electronic lab reporting. This community collaboratively develops knowledge, innovation, and best practices through discussion of current obstacles in ELR and sharing lessons learned to facilitate the modernization of public health surveillance. Additional areas to be considered for inclusion in the scope of the CoP include messaging for lab orders and specimen tracking.

Message Board — Internet forum for holding discussions and posting user-generated content.

NCPHI — CDC’s National Center for Public Health Informatics.

Outbreak Management Community of Practice (OM CoP) — The OM CoP promotes collaboration among all outbreak management practitioners including CDC program staff, local outbreak investigators, and emergency operations personnel to increase the understanding and capabilities of managing outbreaks.

PHIN Communities of Practice Council (CoPC) — Structured group comprised of members from the PHIN Community and members from each of the PHIN CoPs, the CoPP leader and CoPP members. This group functions in an advisory and guidance capacity, and is responsible for: suggesting priorities, funding amounts /mechanisms, and programmatic improvements to the CoPP, as well as identifying cross collaborations among communities.

Podcast — Multimedia file (audio or video) developed to be played back on a digital media player (an MP3 player) or a personal computer.

Practice — Community’s mission that involves the development and shared practice of new technology, best practices, and gaining knowledge to address recurring problems.

Public Health Information Network (PHIN) — Community comprised of people, processes, and tools to strengthen public health's capability to exchange information electronically. For more information, visit http://www.cdc.gov/phin/.

Public Health Information Network Community (PHIN Community) — Community comprised of persons working to improve and strengthen PHIN.

Public Health Information Network Community of Practice (PHIN CoP) — Community of practice comprised of persons with the interest and passion to work in one functional or technical area key to PHIN.

Public Health Vocabulary Community of Practice (PH VCoP) — PH VCoP facilitates dialogue and problem solving around vocabulary development, standards usage, and distribution within public health.

SMART Objective — SMART objective is one that is specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time bound.

Wiki — Collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language like HTML.

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