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Laurie Fitts, PhD, Health Informatics Information Technology (HIIT), 17032 Barn Ridge Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20906, 9194689447, lau328@aol.com and Jayfus T. Doswell, PhD, Juxtopia, LLC, 1101 East 33rd Street, Suite B304, Baltimore, MD 21218.

Public health professionals have identified the utility of information technology when addressing public health needs. Nevertheless, public health informatics is still an area where much confusion exists. This poster session highlights the circulating definitions of public health informatics and outlines the many categories of public health informatics used today. The poster session will also highlight the key issues in organizational, project, and business management in informatics projects. Public health informatics relative to telemedicine, imaging, consumer health, evidence-based medicine, biomedical computing and more, will be discussed.

Learning Objectives: Objectives

By completion of reviewing the poster and talking to the author, a participant will be able to
• Describe public health informatics
• Provide examples of uses public health informatics
• Discuss the need for public health informatics

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Not Answered

HIIT Poster Session

The 134th Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 4-8, 2006) of APHA