Announcing the Public Health Quality Improvement Exchange!

We’ve been deliberating over names for this effort and finally found something that sticks: the Public Health Quality Improvement Exchange.  The acronym is PHQIX (with the QIX pronounced ‘kicks’).  Now we’re playing around with branding: logos, tag lines, and that kind of thing.  For example, will it be PH QIX, PHQIX, or phQIX?

Let us know if you have ideas!  Meanwhile, we’ll forge ahead and post updates as we have them.

See You in Omaha?

By the way, if you will be in Omaha, Nebraska next week for the CSTE Conference, we’d love to meet you!  Jamie Pina (PHQIX Project Director), Kelley Chester (PHQIX Community Engagement Lead ), and I will be there.  I’ve included our pictures so you have a shot at recognizing us in person.  It would be great to meet you!

Name Me!

Thanks to Sherry Reynolds (@cascadia) and Margalit Gur-Arie (@margalitgurarie) for getting us started as we rename the ‘Quality Improvement in Public Health Practice Exchange,’ alternately known as the ‘Public Health Quality Improvement Practice Exchange’!  Either way, the name is quite a mouthful!

Here is what we have come up with so far:

·          HealthWorks

·          PublicHealthWorks

·          Public Health Improvement Exchange (PHIE)

·          Public Health Improvement Network (PHIN)

What do you think of the possibilities we have so far?  What names would you add to this list?  For more information about the project, click here.

Quality Improvement Strategies in Public Health

We recently began the process of building a “practice exchange,” a place for public health practitioners to find best practices related to quality improvement in public health. We’ll be employing user-centered design principles as we build the exchange, so we welcome your ideas and feedback throughout this process.

Our team will be in Portland, Oregon next month for the Open Forum Meeting for Quality Improvement in Public Health. This is the first time the meeting is open to the public and the registration fee is modest. If you are planning on attending, or if this is the first time you’ve heard about it and are thinking about it, we’d love to meet you while we’re in Portland!