IMPORTANT UPDATE AS OF 9/14/2015
PHTT will remain on hiatus in order to better focus efforts on eCR activities

Per Discussion on the 7/7 PHTT Meeting we will be taking a summer break from our meetings.

While PHTT will not be convening as a group we will provide regular updates via email on topics of interest such as

• Items of interest in other Initiatives such as SDC, DAF, CQF, and Data Provenance
• Updates on the work and progress around Electronic Case Reporting and the Public Health Community Platform (www.thePCHP.org)
• Important information out of the HIT Standards Committee and Policy Committee Meetings
• As well as other national webinar, in-person meetings, or other meetings or interest to the community

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Challenge

Public Health utilizes multiple technologies and standards to support business activities, and identify challenges in aligning them within and across jurisdictions and with health care stakeholders

Scope Statement

In Scope: 

The Public Health Tiger Team (PHTT) will advocate for public health interoperability needs, seek to harmonize standards across public health use cases and programs, and educate the larger public health community on informatics issues. Priority activities include but not limited to: SDC, DAF, HeD, CQF, and PHRI.
PHTT will not be creating standards (only implementing validated standards). If we identify standards related gaps or issues outside of the scope of PHTT then we will inform the relevant entities.

Value Statement

Be a trusted source to the Public Health Community by advocating other initiatives to:

• Effectively communicate with stakeholders
• Strategically implement best practices to common workflow tools
• Consolidate resources
• Advocate for standards
• Facilitate data and process integration
• Trusted source to other health care stakeholder e.g. EHR Vendors

Context Statement:
Public Health uses multiple technologies and standards to support business activities and faces challenges in aligning them within the context of local, state, and federal public health (include clinical and partners).
There are data sharing processes between public health and direct care that includes the capture of data (that may not be standardized in EHRs), sharing data with public health, public health conversion of the data to knowledge, and providing the knowledge as clinical decision support.

Value Statement:
Ensure S&I standards related to these processes meet public health needs to facilitate information sharing for the benefit of patient care and public health practice.