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Overview
Baker EL Jr. Ross D. Information and surveillance systems and community health: building the public health information infrastructure. J Public Health Manag Pract 1996 Fall: 2(4): 58-60. Available from: PubMed: UI 98428328.

Brennan PF, Friede A. Public health and consumer uses of health information: education, research, policy, prevention and quality assurance. In: Shortliffe EH, Perreault LE, editors. Medical informatics: computer applications in health care and biomedicine. 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag; 2001. p. 397-420.

Brownson RC, Kreuter MW. Future trends affecting public health: challenges and opportunities. J Public Health Manag Pract 1997 Mar: 3(2): 49-60. Available from: PubMed: UI 98428262.

Chute CG. Public health, clinical data, and common cause: information standards as mediating foci. MD Comput 2000 Sep-Oct: 17(5): 15-6. Available from: PubMed: UI 20505017.

Friede A. O’Carroll PW. Public health informatics. In: Wallace RB, editor. Maxcy-Roseneau-Last public health and preventive medicine. 14th ed. Stamford (CT): Appleton & Lange; 1998. p. 59-65.

O’Carroll P, Yasnoff W, Ward E, Ripp L, Martin E, editors. Public health informatics and information systems. Gaithersburg (MD): Aspen. Forthcoming.

Selden C, Humphreys BL, Friede A, Geisslerova Z. Public health informatics [bibliography on the Internet]. Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US), Reference Section; 1996 [cited 2000 Nov 9]. 21 p. (Current bibliographies in medicine; 96-4). Available from: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm/phinform.html 471 selected citations from January 1980 through December 1995.

Yasnoff WA, O’Carroll PW, Koo D, Linkins RW, Kilbourne EM. Public health informatics: improving and transforming public health in the information age. J Public Health Manag Pract 2000 Nov; 6(6): 67-75.

Disease Surveillance
Freedman DO, Kozarsky PE, Weld LH, Cetron MS. GeoSentinel: the global emerging infections sentinel network of the International Society of Travel Medicine. J Travel Med 1999 Jun; 6(2): 94-8. Available from: PubMed; UI 99316443.

Gaynes RP, Solomon S. Improving hospital-acquired infection rates: the CDC experience. Jt Comm J Qual Improv 1996 Jul; 22(7): 457-67. Available from: PubMed; UI 97011407.

Hinman AR. Surveillance and the National Center for Prevention Services. J Public Health Manag Pract 1996 Fall; 2(4): 50-1. Available from: PubMed; UI 98428326.

Koo D, Parrish RG. The changing health care information infrastructure in the United States: opportunities for a new approach to public health surveillance. In: Teutsch SM, Churchill RE, editors. Principles and practice of public health surveillance. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press; 2000. p. 76-94.

Koo D, Wetterhall SF. History and current status of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. J Public Health Manag Pract 1996 Fall; 2(4): 4-10. Available from: PubMed; UI 98428316.

McQueen DV. A world behaving badly: the global challenge for behavioral surveillance [editorial]. Am J Public Health 1999 Sep; 89(9): 1312-4. Available from: PubMed; UI 99403792

Meriwether RA. Blueprint for a national public health surveillance system for the 21st century. J Public Health Manag Pract 1996 Fall; 2(4): 16-23. Available from: PubMed; UI 98428318.

Osterholm MT, Birkhead GS, Meriwether RA. Impediments to public health surveillance in the 1990’s: the lack of resources and the need for priorities. J Public Health Manag Pract 1996 Fall: 2(4): 11-5. Available from: PubMed; UI 98428317.

Pinner RW. Public health surveillance and information technology. Emerg Infect Dis 1998 Jul-Sep; 4(3): 462-4. Available from: PubMed; UI 98382702.

Thacker SB, Stroup DF. The future of national public health surveillance in the United States. J Public Health Manag Pract 1996 Fall; 2(4): 1-3. Available from: PubMed: UI 98428315

Registries
All Kids Count: protecting our children through immunization registries [homepage on the Internet]. Decatur (GA): All Kids Count; 2000 [modified 2001 Jan 24; cited 2001 Mar 26]. Available from: http://www.allkidscount.org

Miller PL, Frawley SJ, Sayward FG. Exploring the utility of demographic data and vaccination history data in the deduplication of immunization registry patient records. J Biomedical Informatics 2001 Feb; 34(1): 37-50. Available online at http://www.idealibrary.com.

Community Health Services
American Academy of Nursing, Expert Panel on Electronic Networks, Community-based Health Services, and Public Health. Nursing services for the public’s health in an electronic world. Final report. [Washington]: The Academy; 1996. 34 p.

Scherer CW. Community network linkages during a health controversy. J Public Health Manag Pract 2000 Mar; 6(2): 21-9. Available from: PubMed; UI 20182570.

Emergency, Disaster, and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response
Assessment of public health computer readiness for 2000—United States, 1999 MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 1999 May 7; 48(17): 359-60, 367. Available from: PubMed; UI 99290629 Fulltext available: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4817a5.htm.

Gilchrist MJ. A national laboratory network for bioterrorism: evolution from a prototype network of laboratories performing routine surveillance. Mil Med 2000 Jul; 165(7 Suppl 2): 28-31. Available from: PubMed; UI 20376022

Health @lert network [homepage on the Internet]. Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US): [modified 2000 Dec 11; cited 2000 Mar 26]. Available from: http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/han/

Roper WL, Davis DE. Public Health Grand Rounds addresses bioterrorism preparedness. J Public Health Manag Pract 2000 Jul; 6(4): 70-1. Available from: PubMed; UI 20364819

Rotz LD, Koo D, O’Carroll PW, Kellogg RB, Sage MJ, Lillibridge SR. Bioterrorism preparedness: planning for the future. J Public Health Manag Pract 2000 Jul; 6(4): 45-9. Available from: PubMed; UI 20364814

Health Promotion
Newcomb RD. Public health information via the World Wide Web [editorial]. Optom Vis Sci 1999 Apr; 76(4): 183-4. Available from: PubMed; UI 99263976.

Patrick K. Prevention, public health, and interactive health communication. Am J Prev Med 1999 Jan; 16(1): 46-7. Comment on: Am J Prev Med 1999 Jan; 16(1): 1-9. Available from: PubMed; UI 99111926.

Integrated Public Health Information Systems and Networks
Integration project: National Electronic Disease Surveillance System [monograph on the Internet]. Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US); [updated 2000 Feb 29; cited 2001 Mar 26]. [2 p.]. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/od/hissb/act_int.htm

Pinner RW, Jernigan DB, Sutliff SM. Electronic laboratory-based reporting for public health. Mil Med 2000 Jul; 165 (7 Suppl 2): 20-4. Available from: PubMed: UI 20376020.

Washington INHPO & public health informatics projects [monograph on the Internet]. Seattle (WA): University of Washington Northwest Center for Public Health Practice; c1997 [updated 2001 Mar 7; cited 2001 Mar 26]. [4p.]. Available from: http://healthlinks.washington.edu/nwcphp/inphupdt.html.

Other Methods and Tools
Public health informatics [homepage on the Internet]. [Ann Arbor]: University of Michigan, Public Health Information Services and Access; [revised 1998 Aug; cited 2000 Nov 9]. Available from: http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/PubHealth.lib/PHISA/pubinfo.html.

Information Services and Sources
Friede A, O’Carroll PW, Thralls RB, Reid JA. CDC WONDER on the Web. Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp 1996:408-12. Available from: PubMed; UI 97103326
Public health informatics: connections between public health and health care systems [slide presentations on the Internet]. Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US). National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology; 1998 May 24 [modified 1999 Sep 17; cited 2001 Mar 26]. [4 PowerPoint slide presentations]. Available from: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/pres/mla98.html

Rambo N. Information resources for public health practice. J Urban Health 1998 Dec; 75(4): 807-25. Available from: PubMed; UI 99071406

Data Linking and Mining
Madans JH, Hunter EL. Improving and integrating data systems for public health surveillance. J Public Health Manag Pract 1996 Fall; 2(4): 42-4. Available from: PubMed; UI 98428324

Workforce Education and Assessment
Humphreys BL, Ruffin AB, Cahn MA, Rambo N. Powerful connections for public health: the National Library Medicine and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Am J Public Health 1999 Nov; 89(11): 1633-6. Available from: PubMed; UI 20020954

O’Brien DG, Yasnoff WA. Privacy, confidentiality, and security in information systems of state health agencies. Am J Prev Med 1999 May; 16(4): 351-8. Available from: PubMed; UI 99421038

O’Carroll P, Coleman E. Informatics training for CDC public health advisors [course on the Internet]. Seattle: University of Washington, School of Public Health and Community Medicine; 1997 Jul [modified 1997 Nov 18; cited 2001 Mar 26]. Available from: http://faculty.washington.edu/ocarroll/infrmatc/home.htm.

O’Carroll PW, Yasnoff WA, Wilhoite W. Public health informatics: a CDC course for public health program managers. Proc AMIA Symp 1998: 472-6. Available from: PubMed; UI 99123169.

Yasnoff W. Informatics education in public health [slide show on the Internet]. [Bethesda (MD)]: Partners in Information Access for Public Health Professionals, 1999 Sep 17 [cited 2001 Mar 26]. [12 PowerPoint slides]. Available from: http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/partners/AMIASP99/

References: Integrating Health and Social Service Programs

Halfon N, Gonzales R, Hochstein M. Building bridges for California’s young children: a 12-point agenda to enhance Proposition 10. Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, California Policy Research Center. 2000. 24 p.

Halfon N, Inkelas M, Hochstein M. The health development organization: an organizational approach to achieving child health development. The Milbank Quarterly 2000, 78 (3): 447-497.

Hochstein M, Halfon N, Inkelas M. Creating systems of developmental health care for children. Journal of the New York Academy of Sciences 1998; 75(4): 751-71.

Keil M, Cule P, Lyytinen K, Schmidt R. A Framework for Identifying Software Project Risks. Communications of the ACM 1998; 41(11):76-83.

Scott J, Vessey I. Managing Risks in Enterprise Systems and Implementations. Communications of the ACM 2002; 45(4):74-81.

Ben-Menachem M, Gelbard R. Integrated IT Management Tool Kit. Communications of the ACM 2002; 45(4):96-102.

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