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A National Agenda for Public Health Informatics

Summarized Recommendations from the 2001 AMIA Spring Congress

Affiliations of the authors: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia (WAY); University of Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana (JMO); National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland (BLH); Minnesota Department of Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota (ML).

Correspondence and reprints: William Yasnoff, MD, PhD, Mailstop K-36, CDC, Atlanta, GA 30333; e-mail: <WYasnoff{at}cdc.gov>.

Received for publication: 06/21/01; accepted for publication: 07/23/01.

The AMIA 2001 Spring Congress brought together members of the the public health and informatics communities to develop a national agenda for public health informatics. Discussions of funding and governance; architecture and infrastructure; standards and vocabulary; research, evaluation, and best practices; privacy, confidentiality, and security; and training and workforce resulted in 74 recommendations with two key themes—that all stakeholders need to be engaged in coordinated activities related to public health information architecture, standards, confidentiality, best practices, and research; and that informatics training is needed throughout the public health workforce. Implementation of this consensus agenda will help promote progress in the application of information technology to improve public health.

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