CoAg

• Budget - Michelle plans to submit SOON!

• S2, S4 - Project Narrative submitted!

• Public Health Reports

  • No APHL Program has a current subscription
    Individual Subscription, E-access $178
    Institutional Subscription, E-access, $696
    Public Health Reports®

    Single print issue - $44 for individual; $174 for institution

  • Let’s put this on hold for now - very busy! But review later.

Committees

• Informatics Committee Meeting In-Person Prep

  • Updates and prep?

  • We’re ready for our virtual meeting!

  • Peter and Riki are confirmed

• Interoperability Forum - March 25 - shepherding data

• Data Modernization Subcommittee

  • Chairs/members - preparing formal documentation

  • CSTE DMI Coordinator list

  • February meeting - only one person responded!

  • March meeting

Conferences

• HIMSS Global Conference

  • Interoperability Showcase Canceled

  • eCR team needs to make a decision, too

  • Public Health Forum

    • Vanessa, Mel as table moderators

    • 112 registrants so far

    • Most likely: Mel & Vanessa will go; will know soon

    • Guidance for members? If we go, they go

    • We will provide updates to members by EOW hopefully

    • Ewa is looking for more guidance in re: HIMSS

  • HIMSS One-pagers

    • Detor one-pager - for digital distribution, need to send to HIMSS by Tuesday

    • FHIR Query-Response one-pager - MarCom developing

• APHL Annual Meeting

  • Confirm plans with session speakers but hold on travel?

    • ETOR session & Data Interoperability session

  • APHL Awards Nominations - Silver Award?

  • Frank would be a great option; Justin would be a great option; Shanna would be a great option, too.

  • Nominations close 2/18/25

  • Mel, Rachel, Sean will work on application

• AMIA Symposium

  • AMIA 2025 Annual Symposium Call for Participation | AMIA - American Medical Informatics Association

  • Theme = Public Health data exchange

  • Atlanta, November 2025

  • Need full article already for presentation, or we could do a system demo

  • ETOR and/or eCR demo?

  • CFP closes 3/19/25

Division Meeting in February

• Prep from our team?

• NO DIVISION MEETING - virtual and in-person are canceled

Success Stories

• Updates

• All with MarCom; need a week to get the links live

• Rachel will send the files and check in with Maddy

• We are now at 5!!

• Next targets?

  • Plumb the LIMS User Groups and APHL Rhapsody User Group current projects!

  • Ad was included in next Lab Matters

Publications

• Quest White Paper

  • Ready for CDC review

  • MarCom is working on graphics

  • Mel: send to Meghan and Teresa - Technical Assistance provided to Quest

Policy, Proposed Rules, Standards

• USCDI+ V6 - draft released; needs to be reviewed in February

  • JPHIT said they were on hold with direction, but they now want to have input

  • Vanessa is discussing on next week’s JPHIT virtual call - Riki and Mel to get bullet points to Vanessa before Thursday

  • Slides on Monday/Tuesday

• HTI-2 - two partial final rules released; no major response required from public health

• FDA IVD Evaluation - sent comment to Public Policy

• HHS Cybersecurity - no response

• DSWG laboratory data elements - comments submitted

• CDC.gov changes

• APHA is filing funding lawsuit - Sean will forward article

• Legal agreements are pending for Detor - Troy is a little maxed out at the moment…

CoAg

• What else do we need to add to Section 2?

• Updated guidance from CDC out outcomes and performance measures?

• Updates from Scott?

• NGO Partnerships

  • CSTE

    • Project and Meeting Lists

    • Meeting with CSTE leaders

  • AIRA - adding IZ Gateway governance activity under 2.2

  • PHII - EHDI hosting and POC - added planning meetings as activity under 2.2

  • NACCHO

  • NAPHSIS

Committees

• Informatics Committee Meeting In-Person Prep

  • Lodgings, logistics

  • Agenda - new draft ready!

  • Sean may reach out to Noel Clarin as a LIMS advance and challenges and FHIR expert

  • Wednesday afternoon will have time for Subcommittee report

  • Workforce development exercise; HTI-2 one-pager exercise; centralized repository exercise; Detor updates

  • For this Monday - agenda is set! Quick subcommittee updates

• Data Modernization Subcommittee

  • Chairs/members - formal documentation?

  • CSTE DMI Coordinator list

  • February meeting - only one person responded!

Division Meeting in February

• Prep from our team?

• We’ll ask Vanessa next week

Conferences

• Conference Repository

  • We have three! Let’s consolidate.

  • APHL Informatics Knowledge Management space: APHL Annual Conference 2025 - APHL Registered Users - Confluence

  • Informatics Committee space: Conference Abstracts, Sessions, and Posters - Informatics Committee - Confluence

  • DMZ Zone: Conference Abstracts, Sessions, and Posters - APHL Registered Users - Confluence

• APHL Public Health Training Conference

  • PHLTC25_RFP_Announcement.pdf, Portland, ME Sept 10-12

  • What about a talk on PHTC: the Next Level - User Groups, CoPs, etc. Moving from introductory-level to mastery? Sam or Mel as speaker?

  • Proposals were due 1/31/25

Success Stories

• Updates

Publications

• Quest White Paper

  • Brooke is editing

  • Received feedback from Quest

  • Need stats from CDC

  • MarCom is working on graphics

Policy, Proposed Rules, Standards

• USCDI+ V6 - draft released; needs to be reviewed in February

• HTI-2 - two partial final rules released; no major response required from public health

• FDA IVD Evaluation - sent comment to Public Policy

• HHS Cybersecurity - no response

• DSWG laboratory data elements - comments submitted