Public Health Informatics and Information Systems

Dr. Magnuson is an informaticist with an extensive background in public health, teaching, and research. Her fields of experience include academia (faculty and graduate advisor), state public health (health informatics architect), and private industry (genomic informatics system engineer). Dr. Dixon currently serves as the Director of the Public Health Informatics Program and a Research Scientist at the Regenstrief Institute in addition to his role as Associate Professor at the Indiana University (IU) Fairbanks School of Public Health. Dr. Dixon's research focuses on applying informatics methods and tools to improve population health in clinical as well as public health organizations. His work leverages clinical and administrative data in electronic health records to measure population health, better understand the determinants of health, examine information flow in the health system, and improve outcomes in individuals and populations. Previously, Dr. Dixon developed health information applications and systems, including tools supporting the standard clinical vocabulary LOINC®, technology supporting the automated reporting of notifiable conditions to public health agencies, and tools for querying large clinical data repositories.

Public Health Informatics: an Introduction.- History of Public Health Information Systems and Informatics.- Public Health Informatics in the Larger Context of Biomedical and Health Informatics.- Governmental and Legislative Context for Informatics.- Role of Informatics in Bridging Public and Population Health.- Information Infrastructure to Support Public Health.- Data Sources and Data Tools: Preparing for the Open Data Ecosystem.- Public Health Information Standards.- Privacy and Confidentiality of Public Health Information.- Health Systems Security.- Electronic Health Records: Origination, Adoption, and Progression.- Public Health Analytics and Big Data.- Project Management and Public Health Informatics.- Informatics in Disease Prevention and Epidemiology.- Public Health Laboratories.- The US National Vital Statistics System.- Syndromic Surveillance - a Practical Application of Informatics.- New Means of Data Collection and Accessibility.- Interoperability and Health Information Exchange for Public Health.- Geographic Information Systems.- Public Health Decision Support Systems.- Local and Regional Public Health Informatics.- Public Health Informatics and the American Indian/Alaska Native Populations: Improving Community Health Despite Challenges.- Advancing Informatics Policy and Practice: A State Perspective.- National Public Health Informatics, United States.- Perspectives on Global Public Health Informatics.- Improving immunization through informatics: Perspectives from the BID Initiative Partnership with Tanzania and Zambia.- Public Health Informatics: the Path Forward.