The theme for the 2018 PHI Conference is Connecting Systems and People to Improve Population Health. To support this theme, the conference will feature sessions that explore the following topic areas:
Information systems: highlights of technical aspects of information systems; IT infrastructure; interoperability (within and across agencies representing various sectors); health information exchange; data quality; and change management
Governance: strategy; law; policy; standards; data security; and privacy
Informatics workforce and leadership development: teaching, training, and applying core skills in informatics; leadership; strategic thinking; communicating (informatics concepts and the value proposition); and engaging stakeholders
Innovations and novel applications: new and existing hardware (e.g., devices, diagnostics) and software (e.g. blockchain, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources [FHIR], geographic information system [GIS]) technologies; sources generating and using big data; leveraging open source software; health information exchange; applications to addressing problems affecting population health; clinical decision support; natural language processing; and making use of unstructured data
Informatics-based solutions to improving population health: approaches to addressing problems affecting population health pertaining to a variety of topic areas (e.g., chronic diseases, communicable diseases, natural disasters, preparedness, opioids, immunization, health inequities); conducting and translating research; and accessing, analyzing, and visualizing data across different sectors
Laboratory informatics: laboratory information systems, bioinformatics; advanced molecular detection; genomics