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RR 2015/028
Public Health Informatics Institute
Task Force for Global Health, an affiliate of Emory University
Decatur, GA
URL: www.phii.org/
Last visited July 2014
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Keywords Boats, Dictionaries, Languages
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-07-2014-0212
Librarians are well aware of the importance of information. The health of a community depends on the ability of health-care professionals to gather pertinent data, analyze it and both receive and share information effectively. Enter the realm of informatics. The Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII) website shares strategies and projects to help others think through the complexities of goal setting, threat assessment and task flows needed when a public health threat (either urgent or ongoing) arises that requires surveillance and a rapid response.
The website provides a Requirements Laboratory, a Practice Support and an...