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APHL and Ruvos Named Winner of 2024 Amazon Web Services Inaugural Children’s Health Innovation Award

APHL

While healthcare providers rely on public health laboratories to conduct critical patient testing, the current process for exchanging test orders and results between public health agencies and healthcare institutions is challenged by several inefficiencies. Learn more at www.aphl.org.

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Laying the Groundwork: Leveraging Local Health Networks to Modernize Public Health Data in Chicago

National Network of Public Health Institutes

Despite recognizing data improvement as a potential strategy to address the increasing chronic disease burden in the United States, the public health sector has struggled to keep pace with advances and innovation in data. There are widespread initiatives to move the work of data modernization forward in public health.