Computer Health Pioneer Victor Strecher Receives 2014 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award

Victor Strecher, Ph.D., M.P.H., today was presented with the 2014 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). The James F. and Sarah T. Fries Foundation honored Strecher for pioneering the development of computer tailored health programs that have transformed the way people learn about and manage their health.

Public Health Data Strategy Workforce Acceleration

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Public Health Data Strategy Workforce Acceleration
United States of America
To recruit and place data modernization experts in health departments across the country. The CDC Foundation will also lead and support trainings, convenings and networking opportunities for all recruits.
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The Schuchat Berger Excellence in Leadership Award Fund

Schuchat Berger Excellence in Leadership Award Fund

 

Established by Dr. Anne Schuchat and Ms. Sherri Berger, this fund provides an annual award to one  U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) employee (GS-14+ level) who has demonstrated outstanding leadership, consistent with the CDC-ATSDR Honor Awards criteria for the Excellence in Leadership Award, which recognizes individuals who have demonstrated exceptional personal leadership capabilities (through outstanding acts, services or achievements), exemplify commitment to CDC’s mission and represent the next generation of CDC leaders.

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Schuchat Berger Excellence in Leadership Award Fund
The Schuchat Berger Excellence in Leadership Award Fund
United States of America
To provide an annual award to one senior-level Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) employee who has demonstrated outstanding leadership, consistent with the CDC-ATSDR Honor Awards pre-established criteria for the Excellence in Leadership Award (GS-14+ level), which recognizes individuals who have demonstrated exceptional personal leadership capabilities (through outstanding acts, services, or achievements), exemplify commitment to CDC’s mission and represent the next generation of CDC leaders.
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Medicolegal Death Investigation Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources Implementation Collaborative

Medicolegal death investigations (MDIs), conducted by medical examiner and coroner offices, are crucial to understanding causes of deaths, monitoring evolving health challenges and ultimately saving lives. Funding and resources increase the ability for MDI offices to collaborate with internal and external data sharing partners to send and receive this integral information. 

To transform the MDI data landscape and reduce the resources needed by an MDI office to collaborate with data sharing partners, CDC is prioritizing data modernization. Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) is a standard created for healthcare data exchange. This standard can be used to achieve bi-directional exchange of data between MDI systems and data sharing partners. FHIR® improves data exchange while simultaneously reducing the burden of data entry.

During this initiative, selected MDI offices work collaboratively with other MDI offices, data sharing partners, vendors and FHIR® subject matter experts to use FHIR®-based data exchange to improve the efficiency of data transmission between MDI offices and data sharing partners.

Modernizing MDI data practices improves MDI office’s ability to investigate deaths, improves public health’s ability to monitor evolving health trends and creates data driven interventions to save lives without increasing burden on these offices. 

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This program is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $2,726,393 with 100 percent funded by CDC/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by, CDC/HHS or the U.S. Government.

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Medicolegal Death Investigation FHIR Implementation Collaborative
United States of America
To support Medicolegal Death Investigation offices and their data partners in exploring, testing and innovating data modernization strategies.
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