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TB Notes NewsletterReturn to Main Menu - TB Notes 4, 2007No. 4, 2007DATA MANAGEMENT AND STATISTICS BRANCH UPDATEPublic Health Information Network (PHIN) Conference held in August 2007The Fifth Annual Public Health Information Network (PHIN) Conference was held in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Omni Hotel August 27–29, 2007. The theme for the conference was “Harmonizing Public Health Voices in National Health IT.” The conference, which was well-attended, brought together public health and information technology professionals from throughout the United States and some foreign countries. This created a great opportunity to network and share information. There were many interesting presentations that covered subjects from pandemic flu preparedness to creating HL7 messages (HL7, or Health Level 7, is a standardized format for transferring data between health-related computer systems). Some states also presented on their Integrated Surveillance Systems. Many companies set up exhibit booths and shared a theater to demonstrate their products, which included everything from surveillance systems, to outbreak management systems, to emergency preparedness systems. A demonstration of particular interest to DTBE was given by the OntoReason group. This group demonstrated how they could validate Report of a Verified Case of TB (RVCT) data sent to CDC in the HL7 TB message format. This validation tool would allow states with their own system to report their RVCT data and have it validated at CDC. The tool would then send an acknowledgement back to the state. This was a very impressive demonstration of a potentially useful tool. Overall, the conference was very successful in providing opportunities to see and learn about new information technology.
—Reported by Bruce Bradley
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