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Public Health Workgroup

A Community of Practice leveraging the strength of the membership of the workgroup and focuses on concepts where the group could have a meaningful impact.

Whitepaper Now Available: Pandemic Response Insights and Recommendations

Workgroup Purpose

This workgroup provides a forum to learn about health information technology innovations impacting public health. The workgroup will focus on concepts that create potential challenges for states in terms of interoperability and Health IT modernization in the public health area.

Workgroup charter

Public Health Interoperability Policy Roadmap

Coming soon! A roadmap for public health and STLTs to progress health IT interoperability. Learn more about what’s to come and how you can get involved in this sneak preview.

Workgroup Updates

Focus Areas

  • Policy and/or regulatory
  • Programmatic challenges
  • Data/data privacy and security
  • Funding and resources
  • Communications

Planned Deliverables

  • Lessons learned from response to the COVID pandemic as it relates to Health IT and interoperability; this might include policy and regulatory challenges, data quality and availability and privacy
  • Key concepts and items to consider to improve disaster response utilizing technology innovations and best practices across states, HIEs, HINs and partners
  • Create a Community of Practice where Public Health, Medicaid and other state agencies/entities, etc and federal partners can discuss innovations and blockers to those innovations
Whitepaper Now Available: Pandemic Response Insights and Recommendations

WORKGROUP CO-CHAIRS

NORA COX

Executive Director
Texas e-Health Alliance

CHRIS BAUMGARTNER

Deputy Chief Informatics Officer
Washington State Department of Health

Workgroup Now In Progress

Initial membership includes states, federal partners, HIEs and others:

Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials

California Emergency Medical Services Authority 

California Medical Assistance Team

eHealth Exchange 

Epic 

Florida Agency for Health Care Administration

Florida Dept of Health 

Foothold Technology 

HCA Healthcare

Health Tech Solutions 

HIMSS 

KONZA 

Los Angeles County Dept of Health 

North Carolina Health and Human Services 

New York City Dept of Health and Mental Hygiene 

Oracle Corporation 

Texas e-Health Alliance

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Virginia Health Information

Washington State Public Health

Washington State Public Health 

To expand the scope of the work, it is necessary to expand the scope of the membership to others, in particular, to other states who are frequently engaged in disaster response.

History

In 2018, The Sequoia Project was a steward for the Patient Unified Lookup System for Emergencies (PULSE), a program that was conceived by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), and launched the PULSE Advisory Council. In 2021, The PULSE Advisory Council transformed into the Emergency Preparedness Information Workgroup.

Learn more about the history of PULSE and the work of the PULSE Advisory Council that led to the formation of the EPIW here.

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