Transforming Public Health Information Systems

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has launched Common Ground: Transforming Public Health Information Systems. It hopes to:
Persuade public health agencies to integrate informatics principles and sound development methodologies to improve the delivery of public health services.
Examine existing public health service business processes—and define requirements for the information systems used to support these processes.
Help agencies develop new information system requirements that are more effective and that streamline the delivery of essential public health services.
Minimize duplicative efforts by identifying common business processes and information system requirements that are applicable across the pubic health field.
Encourage stakeholders at the local, state, and federal levels to endorse, adopt, and implement redesigned business processes and information system requirements that support public health preparedness and chronic disease prevention and control.