PHI Centers of Excellence
The Centers of Excellence in Public Health Informatics include two Centers funded in FY05 at Harvard Medical School (including the Children's Hospital of Boston) and University of Washington (see press release, September 30, 2005, and three Centers funded in FY06 at the University of Utah, Johns Hopkins University, and the New York City Health Department (see press release, January 8, 2007)The goal of the Centers of Excellence in Public Health Informatics is to develop interdisciplinary approaches to:
- Electronic health record support of public health functions
- Use of health care, population and other public health data in supporting public health systems and analyses
- Basic capabilities that support public health practice such as statistical and health surveillance
- Public Health decision support
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