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Rita Kukafka

Assistant Professor Public Health (Sociomedical Sciences)

and Medical Informatics

 

Web Resources for Public Health Informatics

·       Previous Public Health Informatics Conferences

·       Consumer Health Informatics

·       Public Health Informatics Training Program or Research Group

·       Public Health Informatics Projects

·       Online Resources

·       Current Bibliographies in Public Health Informatics

 

Previous Public Health Informatics Conferences

  1. Accessing Useful Information : Challenges in Health Policy and Public Health (March 23, 1998) held by Division of Public Health, The New York Academy of Medicine . (Note: proceedings of the forum and the results of the follow-on strategy session were published in the Journal of Urban Health 1998;75:779-895)
  2. AMIA 2001 Spring Congress : Developing a National Agenda for public health informatics (May 15-17, 2001) held by American Medical Informatics Association . (Note: the recommendations developed as well as selected proceedings of the meeting were published in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 2001;7(6) & 2002;8(3))

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  Consumer Health Informatics

  1. Consumer Health Information White Paper by Department of Health and Human Services, 1995.
  2. Consumer Health Informatics and Patient Decisionmaking: Summary . AHCPR Research Report, 1997.
  3. National Research Council. Health Applications of the Internet . In: Networking Health: Prescriptions for the Internet. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2000.
  4. MI HEART by Department of Medical Informatics, Columbia University
  5. The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Guide to Surgery by Eric A. Rose, M.D. and leading Columbia surgeons ( Columbia Interactive )
  6. Pew Internet Project

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  Public Health Informatics Training Program or Research Group

  1. Public Health Informatics track by Department of Medical Informatics , Columbia University (contact Dr. Rita Kukafka ).
  2. CDC Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program by Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics , Epidemiology Program Office, CDC
  3. MSPH program in Public Health Informatics , Emory University
  4. Public Health Informatics Research Laboratory , University of Maryland
  5. MS program in Health Informatics , University of Alabama at Birmingham
  6. Public Health Informatics Group , University of Washington
  7. Graduate program in Health Informatics , University of Illinois at Chicago
  8. Biomedical Informatics Training Program, University of Pittsburgh

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  Public Health Informatics Projects

  1. Health Alert Network by CDC
  2. Health Information and Surveillance Systems Board by CDC
  1. Applied Informatics: Using the National Information Infrastructure to Coordinate Healthcare by Department of Medical Informatics, Columbia University
  2. Radon Project at Columbia University Department of Statistics
  3. INPHO (Information Network for Public Health Officials) by Georgia Dept of Human Resources, Div of Public Health
  4. Biosurveillance by Children's Hospital Informatics Program
  5. BioMedical Security Institute (BMSI): collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.
  6.   Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) by Center for Biomedical Informatics of the University of Pittsburgh.
  1. Roundtable on Bioterrorism Detection: Information System-Based Surveillance by Public Health Informatics Group at the University of Washington.

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  Online Resources

  1. Public Health Data Standards Consortium by National Center for Health Statistics, CDC.
  2. Community Health Status Report by Health Resources and Services Administration, DHHS.
  3. CDC WONDER provides a single point of access to a variety of CDC reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data, e.g., lookup ICD9 code, leading causes of death, etc.
  4. Partners in Information Access for Public Health Professionals : A collaborative project to provide public health professionals with timely, convenient access to information resources to help them improve the health of the American public. Developed by NLM.
  5. Toward a National Health Information Infrastructure by National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, 2000.
  6. Making a Powerful Connection: The Health of the Public and the National Information Infrastructure . Report of the U.S. Public Health Service, Public Health Data Policy Coordinating Committee, 1995.
  7. Information Needs and Uses of the Public Health Workforce . MMWR 2000;49(06);118-120
  8. Northwest Center for Public Health Practice by School of Public Health & Community Medicine, University of Washington.
  9. Partners in Information Access for Public Health Information : a model curriculum and web resources for use in teaching informatics skills to public health faculty, students, and practitioners in Texas.
  10. Public Health Informatics Resources : generated from the members of the Public Health Informatics Electronic Journal Club.
  11. Designing and Delivering a Public Health Informatics Course by William Olmstadt and Gale G. Hannigan, Texas A&M University, 2000.

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  Current Bibliographies in Public Health Informatics

  1. January 1996 through December 2000: 441 Citations (Prepared by NLM)
  2. January 1980 through December 1995: 471 Citations (Prepared by NLM)
  3. Yasnoff WA, Overhage JM, Humphreys BL, LaVenture M. A National Agenda for Public Health Informatics: Summarized Recommendations from the 2001 AMIA Spring Congress. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2001 Nov-Dec;8(6):535-45. PubMed
  4. Koo D, O'Carroll P, LaVenture M. Public health 101 for informaticians. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2001 Nov-Dec;8(6):585-97. PubMed
  5. Yasnoff WA. The promise of public health informatics. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2001 Nov;7(6):iv-v. PubMed
  6. Yasnoff WA, Overhage JM, Humphreys BL, LaVenture M, Goodman KW, Gatewood L, Ross DA, Reid J, Hammond WE, Dwyer D, Huff SM, Gotham I, Kukafka R, Loonsk JW, Wagner MM. A national agenda for public health informatics. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2001 Nov;7(6):1-21. PubMed
  7. Lumpkin JR. Air, water, places, and data--public health in the information age. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2001 Nov;7(6):22-30. PubMed
  8. Kukafka R, O'Carroll PW, Gerberding JL, Shortliffe EH, Aliferis C, Lumpkin JR, Yasnoff WA. Issues and opportunities in public health informatics: a panel discussion. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2001 Nov;7(6):31-42. PubMed
  9. National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS): a standards-based approach to connect public health and clinical medicine. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2001 Nov;7(6):43-50. PubMed
  10. Wagner MM, Tsui FC, Espino JU, Dato VM, Sittig DF, Caruana RA, McGinnis LF, Deerfield DW, Druzdzel MJ, Fridsma DB. The emerging science of very early detection of disease outbreaks. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2001 Nov;7(6):51-9. PubMed
  11. Overhage JM, Suico J, McDonald CJ. Electronic laboratory reporting: barriers, solutions and findings. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2001 Nov;7(6):60-6. PubMed
  12. Linkins RW. Immunization registries: progress and challenges in reaching the 2010 national objective. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2001 Nov;7(6):67-74. PubMed
  13. Miller PL, Frawley SJ, Sayward FG. Issues in computer-based decision support in public health illustrated using projects involving childhood immunization. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2001 Nov;7(6):75-86. PubMed
  14. Studnicki J, Hevner AR, Berndt DJ, Luther SL. Comparing alternative methods for composing community peer groups: a data warehouse application. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2001 Nov;7(6):87-95. PubMed
  15. Kwiatkowski K, Brennan PF. Linking personal and public health information: a vision for community-centered health information systems. Medinfo. 2001;10(Pt 1):33-7. PubMed
  16. Boulos MN, Roudsari AV, Carson ER. Health geomatics: an enabling suite of technologies in health and healthcare. J Biomed Inform. 2001 Jun;34(3):195-219. PubMed
  17. Clayton PD. Confidentiality and medical information. Ann Emerg Med. 2001 Sep;38(3):312-6. PubMed
  18. McDonald CJ, Schadow G, Suico J, Overhage JM. Data standards in health care. Ann Emerg Med. 2001 Sep;38(3):303-11. PubMed
  19. Smith MS. Applying information technology to the problem of acute myocardial infarction access to care, diagnosis, and evaluation: report of a symposium. Ann Emerg Med. 2001 Sep;38(3):286-92. PubMed

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Thanks to Jen-Hsiang Chuang , M.D., M.S. for his assistance in putting together these links.
Department of Medical Informatics
Columbia University
Last updated on Dec. 14, 2001