A Boston group has been awarded one of two national grants to form a CDC Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics. The $4.5 million grant award will allow researchers from the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention of Harvard Medical School, the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences Technology (of Children’s Hospital Boston), the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates and other Massachusetts health care organizations to build a private, secure, electronic medical records search system that gives public health officials real-time illness data. This information will allow health officials to develop highly effective health strategies and more accurately pinpoint responses and resources.

To get your own electronic medical record account, please visit http://www.accessmyrecords.com/.