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Bringing COVID-19 exposure notification to the public health community

Starting in 2006 with the Public Health Laboratory Interoperability Project (PHLIP)—one of the first systems that allowed public health entities to exchange standardized data—APHL has…

Moving data at the speed of a virus

April 23, 2020

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by Rachel Shepherd, specialist, Informatics, APHL The public health system serves as the backbone to our nation’s health and safety; there is nothing more collectively…

Supporting rapid exchange of public health data is urgent, crucial and laden with challenges

September 25, 2019

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By Jody DeVoll, advisor, communications, APHL In an era when digital communications move at blazing speeds, public health laboratories still have to resort to fax,…

New lab informatics courses introduce basics to non-specialists

February 12, 2019

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Two online laboratory informatics courses now on the CDC TRAIN site help laboratory staff to understand how their jobs relate to their laboratory’s informatics system.…

Lab Culture Ep. 16: Informatics, health equity and bat snuggles

August 29, 2018

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Joanne Bartkus, APHL's board president and director of the Public Health Laboratory at the Minnesota Department of Health, sat down with Scott Becker, our executive…

UberOps CEO talks public health in the cloud

June 12, 2017

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In a very short time, Americans have become increasingly familiar with the cloud. Not the white fluffy ones in the sky, but the cloud where…

AIMS Platform: Outpacing Pathogens from the Cloud

June 12, 2017

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By Rachel Shepherd, associate specialist, Informatics, APHL In a kindergarten classroom in Des Moines, a small boy begins to shiver uncontrollably. In a nursing home…