Thank you for visiting this site! As we transition DB, we are moving to the Public Health Informatics Institute website. Please reach out to Illinois Public Health Institute for more information and stay tuned to the PHII website for the launch.
Thank you for visiting this site! As we transition DB, we are moving to the Public Health Informatics Institute website. Please reach out to Illinois Public Health Institute for more information and stay tuned to the PHII website for the launch.
Thank you for visiting this site! As we transition DB, we are moving to the Public Health Informatics Institute website. Please reach out to Illinois Public Health Institute for more information and stay tuned to the PHII website for the launch.
Our Vision
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- public health
Public health and healthcare empowered and coordinated with the information needed to improve and protect the health and health security of patients and communities nationwide using interoperable systems that promote effective, efficient, and economical services.
Digital Bridge offers public health the ability to speak directly to health care providers as it relates to protection against reportable diseases, creating a vision towards a future of better exchange and relationships with health care.
–Mary Ann Cooney, MSN, MPH, ASTHO
Digital Bridge is important for health care providers because it will improve the efficiency and mechanisms we use to report cases to public health, and the validity and reliability of the data will be more consistent, eliminating redundancies in reporting.
– Walter Suarez, MD, MPH, Kaiser Permanente
By continuing the Digital Bridge’s work, we have an opportunity to drive real change in how health care and public health preparedness are coordinated throughout the United States.
–Bob Harmon, MD, MPH, Cerner
Digital Bridge is critical to the health and safety of our nation. The flow of important information between health care and public health about diseases that occur will lead to better care and faster, more effective population health interventions.
–John Lumpkin, MD, MPH, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Partner Organizations
Allscripts
American Cancer Society (ACS)
American Medical Association (AMA)
Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) Foundation
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (CDC CSELS)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation (CDCF)
Cerner
Civitas Network for Health
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE)
Deloitte
de Beaumont Foundation
eClinicalWorks
Epic
HealthPartners
Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator (ONC)
HIMSS
Intermountain Healthcare
Kaiser Permanente
Meditech
National Coalition on Health Care (NCHC)
National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR)
OCHIN
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
SAS
The Sequoia Project
Recent Updates:
Digital Bridge and eCR in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Digital Bridge governance body member, Walter Suarez, collaborated with public health law experts on an article that highlights how federal, state and local laws shape …
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New blog on evaluation accountability
Our evaluation committee co-chairs, Jeff Engel and Goldie MacDonald, shared their thoughts on why it’s important to develop an evaluation plan and remain transparent by …
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Latest Collaborative Body Decisions:
February 22, 2023
- Secretariat is sending out an internal survey to vote on membership expansion, membership dues, and meeting cadence. Due to the fact we did not reach a quorum.
- Working to revise the mission and vision from input received from the Collaborative Body.
October 6, 2022
- Secretariat and Executive Committee will share summary paper from February annual meeting regarding data modernization perspectives from the Collaborative Body for Collaborative Body review.
- ExeCC Concept Paper Workgroup will share the Concept Paper summary for Collaborative Body review.
See all governance body decisions
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