Public Health Informatics Institute

Mark your calendars for the annual NACCHO360 Conference hosted at Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville! The conference will be July 14-17. If you’re planning on attending, be sure to stop by our PHII booth 918!

Our team is excited to connect with local public health professionals, share resources, talk about innovative approaches to public health data and explore how we can work together to advance healthier communities.

Whether you're looking to learn more about our tools, programs or partnerships— or just want to say hello—we'd love to meet you!

Grateful for our collaboration with Cal Poly’s Digital Transformation Hub (DxHub), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston Children’s Hospital and the Massachusetts Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS) Program to automate the classification of pediatric audiology reports. Learn more: https://buff.ly/ObWKGbp

Every day counts when it comes to infant development. The standard for Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) is to screen by 1 month, diagnose by 3 months, and intervene by 6 months. Yet, manual data reporting can create a bottleneck and put that critical timeline at risk.

To bridge this gap, the Public Health Informatics Institute, a program of The Task Force for Global Health, and their partners collaborated on a generative AI solution. The tool features a "human-in-the-loop" design that preserves clinical judgment instead of replacing it. Streamlined reporting means infants who are deaf or hard of hearing get connected to early intervention services sooner.

Read more about this scalable, automated system: https://www.taskforce.org/closing-the-gap-in-early-hearing-detection-with-ai/.

Photo courtesy of Midkhat Izmaylov