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J Am Med Inform Assoc2023;30(6):1011-21.May 5, 2023Journal Article
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for the nation's public health information systems infrastructure: synthesis of discussions from the 2022 ACMI Symposium.
Jessica C Acharya1, Catherine Staes2,3, Katie S Allen4,5, Joel Hartsell3,6, Theresa A Cullen5,7, Leslie Lenert8,9, Donald W Rucker10,11, Harold P Lehmann12, Brian E Dixon4,5
1Healthy Policy & Management, Informatics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
2College of Nursing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
3School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
4Department of Health Policy & Management, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, IUPUI, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
5Center for Biomedical Informatics, Regenstrief Institute, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
6Epi-Vant, LLC., Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
7Pima County Public Health Department, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
8Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
9Health Sciences South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
101upHealth, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
11Department of Emergency Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
12Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The annual American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) symposium focused discussion on the national public health information systems (PHIS) infrastructure to support public health goals. The objective of this article is to present the strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities (SWOT) identified by public health and informatics leaders in attendance.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Th…
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