What does PHIN stand for?

As an advocate for improvements in information systems and transparency, Dr Lederberg enthusiastically supported innovative approaches that included the establishment of ProMED and the Global Public Health Information Network.

As a major component of CDC's Public Health Information Network (PHIN), the national EPHT network will be standards-based and compliant with the federal health architecture being developed by the Department of Health and Human Services (CDC 2004; Office of Management and Budget 2004).

For example, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is currently implementing its Public Health Information Network comprised of a number of disease surveillance and communications systems, including the Health Alert Network.

The IRMS Emergency Management System also manages the distribution of Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) push packs through PODs where individualized distribution of vaccines to patients are recorded and transmitted back to the state's public health information network.

The presentation will highlight the benefits of utilizing ambulatory EHRs with the evolving public health information network.

Messaging and vocabulary standards are essential to the successful transmission of AUR reports, as are the interoperability standards promoted by the Public Health Information Network (PHIN).

It is a major component of the Public Health Information Network (PHIN) and contributes to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) BioSense bioterrorism and disease detection program.

Proxicom, an Interactive Agency providing interactive marketing, design and development services to Global 1000 organizations, and an operating company of the Gores Group, announced today that it has released the next generation of its Health Alert Network (HAN) and will feature the new solution at the 2006 Public Health Information Network (PHIN) conference in Atlanta later this month.