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NACCHO has a number of initiatives aimed at helping local health departments advance the use of informatics at their agency.

LHD Action Items:

Meaningful Use

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is establishing a set of criteria that will be used to determine who is eligible to receive Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments for the adoption of certified electronic health records. Included in the criteria, which is broken into three stages, are electronic submissions of syndromic surveillance, laboratory, and immunization data to public health agencies. Please take a moment to consider how LHDs will position themselves to electronically send and receive public health information and provide comments on stage 2. More»

Please visit the ONC and CDC's meaningful use pages for more information.

In the Spotlight

JHSPH Public Health Informatics Certificate Training Program

Targeting public health professionals, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine and Nursing and the Public Health Data Standards Consortium, is pleased to announce that the Public Health Informatics Training Program is accepting applications.

The training program focuses on the following core informatics topics:

Overview of public health and biomedical informatics
Health information systems design and development
Health information technology standards and systems interoperability
Systems evaluation in health sciences informatics
Population health informatics

Tuition Funding Available:

Qualified applicants are eligible for a $10,000 tuition subsidy via a grant from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), US Department of Health and Human Services.

The deadline to submit applications for the third cohort (beginng August 2012) is Thursday, March 15, 2012. More »

Resource

Syndromic Surveillance 101: Online Training Modules

ISDS, in partnership with the Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts Health Care Institute, has created an online course in syndromic surveillance.

This program is designed to increase knowledge and foster collaboration between public health and clinical practitioners new to syndromic surveillance. This course has been developed with funding from NACCHO and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More »

Continuing Education Opportunities

CDC Public Health Informatics Program
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

AMIA 10x10 Program
American Medical Informatics Association

Continuing Education in Public Health Informatics
Public Health Data Standards Consortium

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Please contact phinformatics@naccho.org with any questions.