NAPHIT 2004 Annual Meeting

National Association for Public Health Information Technology

/ 2004 Annual Meeting Archive /

NAPHIT Annual Meeting Generates Lively Discussion about Key Opportunities and Challenges of Public Health IT!

The main meeting was held Friday, May 27, 2004, from 2:00pm - 6:30pm EST in the Cobb/Clayton room of the downtown Atlanta Hilton Hotel. The business meeting was held the following morning in the Gwinnett room of the Hilton from 8:00am - 10:00am EST.

Enjoy the 2004 Annual Meeting Video. You need to have Apple’s free QuickTime player installed on your computer to view this. It is available as a free download from: www.apple.com/quicktime/download/. Also, because this is a fairly large file, on a high-speed connection, you may need to wait several minutes for the file to download and begin playing.

Take a look at some pictures from the annual meeting. See some pictures of the NAPHIT 2004 reception held during the week of PHIN at Max Lager's Brewery.

Review the annual meeting agenda and download the Presentations:

Session 1: Pros and Cons of IT Centralization

Denise Webb's (CIO, Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services) Wisconsin IT Consolidation Presentation.
Greg Fay's (CIO, Iowa Department of Public Health) Issues, Concerns and Opportunities of Centralizing IT Across State Government Presentation.

Session 2: Local and State Public Health Agencies Working Together

Mike Hill (Administrator/Health Officer, Okeechobee County, FL Health Department) and David Taylor's (CIO, Florida Department of Health) State and Local Public Health IT Collaboration in Florida—Its Sucesses, Its Challenges, and Its Future.
Jeff Berschling (Director, Public Health IT liaison Office, GA Division of Public Health), Reinetta Waldrop (Deputy Director, Administrative Services, Fulton County GA Health District), and Steve Gay's (IS Manager, Fulton County GA Health District) Applying Project Management Priniciples Early to Critical Projects to Adress Lack of Customer Confidence and Other Pre-implementation Issues.

Session 3: Integrated Child Health Information Systems

Nicole Fehrenbach (Senior Researcher and Evaluation Associate, Public Health Informatics Institute) Integrating child health information systems: All Kids Count survey results.

Also, review the business meeting agenda and download the NAPHIT President's presentation.

Take a look at what happened at the 2003 Annual Meeting!