by Rachel Shepherd, specialist, Informatics When COVID-19 cases began hitting the United States at a rapid rate in early 2020, public health was faced with…
The emergence of COVID-19 required swift action to develop systems and processes that support public health agencies and their pandemic response efforts. In the last…
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
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…
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…