The California Public Health Foundation (CPHF) incorporated as a California nonprofit to assist the state Department of Public Health (CDPH) in carrying out its mission.
The Regensteif Institute developed the first electronic medical record system.
The computerized tomography (CT) imaging machine was invented in 1972 - but it wasn't widely available until around 1980.
The first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) full body scan was performed in 1977, taking almost five hours to create an image. Today, images can be produced in mere seconds.
The Western Consortium for Health Professions, the other precursor organization to PHI, was renamed the Western Consortium for Public Health. The Consortium, located in San Francisco, was associated with the schools of public health at the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Hawaii.
For the first time, independent principal investigators - who didn't work at the state Department of Health Services - brought their projects to the California Public Health Foundation (CPHF).
The California Public Health Foundation (CPHF) reorganized and adopted the name Public Health Institute. Joseph M. Hafey, who had been executive director of both the Western Consortium for Public Health (WCPH) and the CPHF, took the helm at PHI as its first president.
A "rough draft" of the sequencing of the human genome was announced in June 2000. The remarkable scientific advance promised over the coming years to improve our understanding of the genetic causes of diseases and to allow for the development of new treatments.
Dialogue4Health (D4H), PHI’s vibrant online community for improving the public’s health, presented its first web forum on July 29, 2008, “Tractors, Trucks and Trains…How Federal Farm and Transportation Policies Impact Our Health.”
Pilot projects funded and evaluated by PHI’s Center for Technology and Aging (CTA) reduced hospitalizations among high-risk patients by as much as 62% and emergency room visits by over 90%. They delivered a return on investment as high as 6:1.
Recommendations by PHI’s Center for Connected Health Policy became the blueprint for California’s Telehealth Advancement Act of 2011.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention blog warned the public to prepare for a "zombie apocalypse" and directed them to resources on its website. Within two days, the website had crashed. By the end of one week, more than 2 million people had viewed the blog posting - and the CDC's new zombie prepareness guide had gone viral.
With 100 million active users on Twitter worldwide, public health increasingly turned to social media to spread campaigns and messages, especially in the event of emergencies.
A PHI interactive data visualization demonstrated the economic value of investing in public health prevention in California.
CNExT, a product of PHI's C/NET Solutions, was the software of choice for over 350 cancer registries in more than 25 states and provinces across North America, and in several countries worldwide.
Under a collaboration between PHI and the California Department of Public Health, the number of newborns screened in the state for a wide array of metabolic disorders reached 4 million between the years 2005 and 2012. About 1,000 cases were diagnosed during that period.
PHI’s Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) became the federally funded and designated National Telehealth Policy Resource Center, providing teleheatlh policy support for 12 regional telehealth resource centers and their constituents.
PHI Iaunched the Public Health Data Solutions (PHDS) online system, which was the first custom population data platform for a CDC Division of Community Health grantee.
Cell phone subscriptions reached 6 billion, according to a report from the International Communications Union.
Research by PHI's California Breast Cancer Mapping Project (CBCMP) pinpointed four previously unidentified areas of California that have invasive breast cancer rates substantially higher than the state average.
The baby boom generation reached another milestone: age 65. For the next 18 years, boomers will turn 65 at the rate of 8,000 people a day, creating enormous need for health care and support services.
British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee submitted his proposal for the World Wide Web on March 12, 1989.
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