Center for Population Health IT

Welcome to the Johns Hopkins Center for Population Health IT (CPHIT), an interdisciplinary center dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of populations by advancing health information technology and tools.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Population Health Information Technology (CPHIT) is a research center dedicated to improving the health and well-being of populations and communities by advancing the state-of-the-art of health information technology (HIT), health informatics, and data sciences within public and private health care organizations and systems. The CPHIT team focuses on leveraging data from electronic health records (EHRs), insurance claims, and public health data systems to inform population health strategies, and health care decision-making and policy.

Established in response to the growing need for innovative approaches to population health management, CPHIT integrates Johns Hopkins' expertise in public health, health care, health informatics, and analytics. CPHIT has built a reputation for developing tools and methodologies to improve healthcare delivery, reduce costs, and promote health equity. The center is based within the Department of Health Policy and Management of the Bloomberg School of Public Health and collaborates with departments and centers across the University and Health System. 

The faculty at CPHIT have made significant contributions to the field of population health informatics.  The Center’s research focuses on cross-organization data integration, advanced healthcare analytics (including artificial intelligence – AI), e-health and digital health innovations, and HIT policy assessment and implementation. Some of CPHIT’s key accomplishments include the development of very widely used risk stratification tools to identify and manage high-risk patient populations, evaluating the impact of health IT (such as tele-health) on coordination, and methods for the integration of social determinants of health information into medical care and population health. CPHIT faculty are the developers and scientific home of the  Johns Hopkins ACG® System (Adjusted Clinical Groups), a globally recognized population health analytics tool used to measure and predict the health needs of populations.

We invite you to explore our population health research. connect with our faculty experts, and collaborate in our mission.