Public+Health+Information+Network+(PHIN)

== = = =**Public Health Information Network**= ====Developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Public Health Information Network (PHIN) was created for implementing information systems in public health organizations. According to the [|official website], the network is a "national initiative to improve the capacity of public health to use and exchange information electronically by promoting the use of standards, defining functional and technical requirements."====

Structure

 * 1) ====Detection and Monitoring====
 * 2) ====Data Analysis====
 * 3) ====Knowledge Management====
 * 4) ====Alerting====
 * 5) ====Response====

Purpose

 * ====Supporting the exchange of critical health information between all levels of public health and healthcare====
 * ====Developing and promulgating requirements, standards, specifications, and an overall architecture in a collaborative, transparent, and dynamic way====
 * ====Monitoring the capability of state and local health departments to exchange information====
 * ====Advancing supportive policy====
 * ====Providing technical assistance to state and local health departments====
 * ====Facilitating communication and information sharing within the PHIN community====

**Applications:**
====PHIN attempts to provide the public health sector with continuous access to health care information necessary. Access to near real-time data attempts to improve community based interventions that are implemented as a result of terrorism or disease outbreaks.====

**[|Conferences]**

 * ====Upcoming:====
 * ====August 24 - 26, 2008====
 * ====Past:====
 * ====[|May 13 - 15, 2003]====
 * ====[|May 24 - 27, 2004]====
 * ====[|May 10 - 12, 2005]====
 * ====[|September 25 - 27, 2006]====
 * ====[|August 27 - 29, 2007]====

**Related Terminology:**

 * ====HL7====
 * ====LOINC====
 * ====Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act====

**Citations and Resources:**

 * ====Official Website - http://www.cdc.gov/phin/index.html====
 * ====Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Health_Information_Network====