Erin Holt Coyne, MPH

Erin Holt Coyne serves as the Chief Public Health Informatics Officer and the Director of Core Informatics Units within the Office of Informatics and Analytics (OIA) for the Tennessee Department of Health. The Core Informatics Unit is responsible for the TDH Integrated Data System, providing interoperability consultation and support, support public health interoperability standards development, provide support for federal HIT incentive programs, provide support for the TDH Electronic Health Record Implementation, providing direct public health surveillance support for programs, like the drug overdose surveillance program, and coordinating Data Modernization related activities for the department, including supporting the development of the TDH Data Strategy. In addition to Core Informatics activities, The OIA directly supports the epidemiologic response to the opioid and drug overdose crisis and provides surveillance and advanced analytics and visualization support and is responsible for TDH data governance including data release, suppression, and the Institutional Review Board. Her role is to help support informatics infrastructure within the department, facilitate department wide strategic and operational informatics activities, and represent the health department in relevant nationwide public health informatics activities.

Mrs. Holt Coyne is an epidemiologist by training and focused much of her career on communicable disease surveillance implementation. Mrs. Holt Coyne founded and served as the Director of the Surveillance Systems and Informatics Program where she led a team dedicated to integrated disease surveillance, onboarding and implementing interoperability standards and principles for electronic laboratory reporting, syndromic surveillance, and electronic case reporting from electronic health records. In addition to standards implementation, she has also been participating in standards development. Mrs. Holt Coyne has been an active member of the HL7’s Public Health workgroup since 2011, holds HL7 certifications in version 2 messaging and Clinical Document Architecture, and has served as an HL7 PH workgroup co-chair since January 2015. Mrs. Holt Coyne is an active member of the Council of State and Territorial Health Epidemiologists (CSTE) where she currently serves as a co-chair of the Data Modernization workgroup and is a member of the Informatics Peer Network with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and served as an Informatics Champion in 2021.