Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Principal Investigator:  Richard Platt, MD, MS
Co-Principal Investigator:  Kenneth Mandl, MD

Title of Project:  Centers of Excellence in Public Health Informatics – PHIConnect Informatics Core, Statistics Core, Administrative Core

Project 1:  Electronic Medical Record Support for Public Health Practice (ESP)

Project 2:  Personally Controlled Health Record (PCHR)

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University of Washington
Principal Investigator:  Mark W. Oberle, MD, MPH

Title of Project:  Centers of Excellence in Public Health Informatics: Improving the Public’s Health through Information Integration

Project 1:  Surveillance Integration and Decision Support

Project 2:  Customizable Knowledge Management Repository System for Prevention: Design, Development, and Evaluation (My Public Health)

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Johns Hopkins University
Principal Investigator:  Joseph S. Lombardo, MS

Title of Project:  JHU/APL COE in Public Health Informatics

Project 1:  Use of the Electronic Medical Record to Facilitate Situational Awareness for Public Health Emergencies:

This project will identify the best data elements and analytic methods to use for the early discovery of outbreaks. Additionally, it will identify those elements and methods that help to rapidly classify the event and monitor results of protocols used to contain the spread of disease.

Project 2:  Information and Resource Sharing Across Regional and National Public Health Networks:

This project will develop and evaluate methods for federal, state, and local health departments to collaborate in surveillance activities by sharing critical information, knowledge, and resources across a network.

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University of Utah
Principal Investigator:  Matthew H. Samore, MD

Title of Project:  Public Health Informatics, Decision-Support, Evaluation, Analysis and Surveillance Center (IDEAS)

Project 1:  Information and New Technology Exchange for Rapid Action, Compliance, and Treatment (INTERACT)

Project 2:  Decision Support for Infectious Disease Epidemiology (DSIDE)

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New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Principal Investigator:  Farzad Mostashari, MD

Title of Project:  Centers of Excellence in Public Health Informatics

Project 1:  Implementing and evaluating a model Electronic Health Record (EHR) system that incorporates public health priorities and epidemiologic data

Project 2:  Assessing the utility of structured and unstructured EHR data for syndromic surveillance using natural language processing, building on the infrastructure developed for regional health information exchanges to pilot non-mandatory, deidentified public health reporting.