Welcome to public health moment from the University of Minnesota. As our healthcare system continues to transition from paper to digital records, the demand for professionals with expertise in the field of health informatics is growing. This demand prompted the federal government recently to provide a 5.2 million dollar health informatics training grant to the University of Minnesota. But what is health informatics? University of Minnesota Professor Julie Jaco explains, health informatics is the use of technology in health health care to enable us to do a better job of capturing data and information and sharing it with the people who need to have access to it. Those people might be the patients themselves, might be the caregivers of those patients. It might be the clinicians who are serving those patients. And it also might be researchers. Jaco says that meeting the demand for health informatics is essential for improving the delivery of healthcare in this country. Health informatics training really matters right now because the workforce is in dire need of people who have expertise in getting technologies in places where it matters to do a better job, a more efficient job, a more cost effective job of delivering care. The program begins this fall. For more information, go to pit for public health moment. I'm Mark Go, Briton.