What is the Public Health Information System (iPHIS)?
Public Health Information System (iPHIS) part of Public Health Agency of Canada is an automated, integrated, client health record and reporting system that supports public health provider interventions, tracking, follow-up, case management, and reporting. iPHIS includes immunization tracking, communicable disease case management, and surveillance components and is designed to be used centrally, providing secure access to one client record by multiple public health providers and programs and allowing communicable disease surveillance and immunization information to be shared. Originally developed for use as an application by the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BC-CDC), Public Health Agency of Canada has been working in collaboration with its federal, provincial, and territorial partners to further enhance i-PHIS. As a result, the iPHIS application has been made available without any licensing fees by Public Health Agency of Canada to all public health jurisdictions across C
