Partnership with CDC to Enhance Public Health Informatics

The American Medical Informatics Association is launching a 5-year cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to strengthen the breadth and depth of the public health workforce by providing training in public health informatics and encourage new explorations of innovations at the intersection of public health and health informatics. The AMIA 10x10 will utilize curricular content from existing informatics training programs and other AMIA educational initiatives with a special emphasis toward programs with a proven track record in distance learning. The content will provide a framework but also cover plenty of detail, especially in areas such as electronic and personal health records, health information exchange, standards and terminology, and health care quality and error prevention.