HLN Consulting LLC

“We thrive on new challenges. We are driven to excellence through collaborative engagements large and small to help customers successfully deploy innovative solutions. As the COVID pandemic eases, we continue to work closely with clients to strengthen their systems and prepare for the next likely event.”
– Dr. Noam Arzt, President

Welcome

HLN Consulting is a leading health information technology consulting company. Our mission is to enhance and support the capabilities of public health organizations and healthcare providers by providing high-quality consulting services, strategic planning, and software development including open source.

Who We Are

What We Do

Develop and maintain new or existing systems for our clients

Manage a process to ensure successful roll out of new systems

Devise innovative strategies to solve organizational challenges

Featured Solutions

Open Source immunization evaluation and forecasting

Replacing a decommissioned product with a well-supported system while adding a useful enhancement

Ensuring successful system migration

Leveraging a proven methodology and tools to operationalize a new immunization information system (IIS)

Clinical decision support for electronic case reporting

Revolutionizing the way reportable health conditions including COVID-19 are transmitted to public health agencies

Recent Blog Posts

Leveraging the ICE Open Source Immunization Forecaster during COVID

Like many things in the age of COVID, the vaccine development landscape is
unlike anything we have seen in our lifetimes. There are over 100 SARS vaccines currently in development, many of which are utilizing new technologies not used in any currently licensed vaccine. The potential impact on immunization schedules (clinical guidelines for clinicians) and immunization clinical decision support is significant.

Civitas HDU Framework Supplement

Civitas Networks for Health has a new draft Health Data Utility (HDU) resource, which is now open for public comment. See our comments from a public health perspective.

HLN Compiles Training Resources for Workforce Acceleration Initiative Placements

HLN collaborated with the CDC Foundation to compile and develop public health informatics training resources to support the transition of placements of IT and data experts in state, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) health agencies across the country to support the Workforce Acceleration Initiative (WAI). WAI aims to accelerate data system modernization and data utilization to support public health action.

Planning for the Future of IIS in 2025 and Beyond

We are at an interesting crossroads for Immunization Information Systems (IIS). Several jurisdictions have recently started to replace their IIS with different products and pursue a variety of strategies, with several others waiting in the wings to see how these projects fare. Several differing strategies have emerged. Here are some key attributes that are important for any IIS moving forward to ensure sustainability.