Practicing Management and Leadership

In Brief The Management Moment” is a regular column within the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. Janet Porter, PhD, and Edward Baker, MD, MPH, MSc, are serving as The Management Moment Editors. Dr Porter is Associate Dean for Executive Education, The North Carolina Institute for Public Health, School of Public Health, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Dr Baker is Director of The North Carolina Institute for Public Health, School of Public Health, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This column provides commentary and guidance on timely management issues commonly encountered in public health practice. This column chronologically reviews a companion set of initiatives designed to enhance the public health infrastructure through increased use of information technology and mentions three strategies—connectivity, information access, and data exchange—to guide action and program operations.