The Fifth Annual Public Health Information Network (PHIN) Conference was held in Atlanta, Georgia, August 27 to 29th, 2007, at the OMNI at CNN Center in downtown Atlanta. The National Association of County and City Health Officials was this year’s conference co-sponsor. The year’s theme was “ Harmonizing Public Health Voices in National Health IT.”
This year’s conference featured workshops, training on informatics, many opportunities for networking with informatics colleagues from the local, state, national and international levels and opportunities to provide input to CDC on how to implement the PHIN initiative in the context of the larger national Health IT Initiative.
The conference planning included participation from NACCHO, NAHDO, ASTHO, CSTE, APHL, NAPHSIS, and NAPHIT, state and local health department partners and internal subject matter experts in the National Center for Public Health Informatics.
This year’s conference was family-friendly. The main reception was held at the Georgia Aquarium, and we had access to all the wonderful exhibits at the world’s largest Aquarium. We were also within walking distance of the Centennial Olympic Park, CNN Center, the Children’s Museum of Atlanta, the Georgia Congress Center and the Phillips Arena.
Updates are posted to www.cdc.gov/phin as they become available.