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HLN presents at the 41st WorldVistA Community Meeting
HLN recently took part in the 41st WorldVistA Community Meeting to share information about the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) software.
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The Power of Automated CDS: Diving into an Immunization Decision Support Question
HLN dives into an immunization decision-support question by a clinician to analyze the power of automated CDS.
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HLN supports updates to several vaccine groups in its Award Winning ICE Open Source Immunization Forecaster
HLN released a new version (v1.40.1) of the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE). ICE is a state-of-the-art open source software system that provides clinical decision support for immunizations for use in Immunization Information Systems (IIS), Electronic Health Record (EHR), and Personal Health Record (PHR) Systems.
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HLN takes part in the CDC Health Data Innovation Summit
The CDC Foundation held a follow-up event to the CDC-ONC Industry Day: The CDC Health Data Innovation Summit. HLN Consulting presented on shared services for IIS data exchange.
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HLN takes part in the ONC Tech Forum 2023
ONC held a two-day virtual workshop that highlighted the current state of public health data exchange across the US. HLN Consulting was a part of a panel that discussed modernizing public health data exchange.
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IIS-IIS Interoperability… What We’ve Learned Along the Way
HLN supports IIS implementations in New York City (CIR) and Rhode Island (KIDSNET/RICAIR). As we began testing connections to other IIS, we wondered whether IIS-IIS HL7 data exchange might yield similar issues as noted with existing EHR to IIS reporting. Testing of IIS-IIS pairings has highlighted several variances in platform configuration, business rules and policies – some that existed and some that did not.
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