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HLN Submits Comments to CMS on IPPS NPRM
On June 14, 2018 HLN submitted the following comments on the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) 2019 Inpatient Prospective Payment System Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to Quality Payment Program.
HLN Attends AIM 2018 Leadership in Action Conference
HLN attended the Association of Immunization Managers (AIM) 2018 Leadership in Action Conference in San Diego, CA on June 4-6 along with over 200 Immunization Program Managers, staff, and associated non-profits and vendors.
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Thoughts on the CMS IPPS NPRM: A Public Health Perspective
I have seen several pretty good summaries of the recently release Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) 2019 Inpatient Prospective Payment System Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to Quality Payment Program (one from AMIA, one from CDC). Here are just a few additional tidbits I picked out of the NPRM.
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HLN Presents at 2018 National Immunization Conference in Atlanta
At the 2018 National Immunization Conference (NIC) held in Atlanta May 15-17, HLN co-presented a talk in collaboration with the Oregon Immunization Program (OIP).
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Epic and Cerner Connect to HLN’s ICE at FHIR Connectathon
At the 18th FHIR Connectathon in Cologne, Germany on May 12-13, 2018, HLN successfully integrated its open source Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) service with test instances of two Electronic Health Record (EHR) products, Epic and Cerner, using the CDS Hooks standard.
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HITAC USCDI Task Force Delivers its Recommendations
On April 18, 2018 the HHS Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) US Core Data for Interoperability Task Force delivered its recommendations on the draft US Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) and Proposed Expansion Process which had been published for public comment back in January 2018. HITAC promptly accepted the Task Force’s recommendations.
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