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HLN Participates in HIMSS24 Conference in Orlando

HLN was a proud co-sponsor of the HIMSS24 Public Health Data Modernization Pre-conference Workshop. Held in Orlando in March, this conference was attended by more than 35,000 from around the world and centered around a trade show exhibit hall, interoperability showcases, and educational sessions. Members of the HLN Consulting team, Aasa Dahlberg Schmit and Marcey Propp attended. HIMSS-TV interviewed Aasa during HIMSS24. Get the details of the pre-conference workshop and our participation.

HLN Team Attends the CSTE 2022 Annual Conference

The HLN team attended the 2022 CSTE Annual Conference with over 2,500 attendees at the hybrid conference. Here are some highlights from the conference.

HLN to Attend the CSTE 2022 Annual Conference

HLN Consulting is pleased to be a Silver Sponsor of this year’s #CSTE Annual Conference in Louisville, KY from June 19–23!

Join us! Check out our booth, attend our roundtable, or set up time to chat with us.

CMS IPPS Proposed Rule Could Benefit Public Health

BY Noam Arzt ON July 13, 2021 AIRA | CSTE | FHIR | HL7 | Public Health

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed revision to the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) for operating and capital-related costs of acute care hospitals.

Case Reporting and COVID-19: Open Source Solutions

As people begin to spend more time together again, it is critically important that public health agencies do everything they can to help prevent further spread of the infection and continue to monitor the level of infection within the population. A national project has been underway to implement electronic case reporting (eCR).

Senate White Paper: Preparing for the Next Pandemic

On June 10, 2020 the US Senate released a white paper titled “Preparing for the Next Pandemic” under the signature of Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. The white paper has five recommendations to address future pandemics based on lessons learned from COVID-19 and the past 20 years of pandemic planning.

HLN Attends CSTE 2019 Annual Conference

HLN attended the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) 2019 Annual Conference in Raleigh, NC on June 2-5. Bringing together over 1,600 epidemiologists, public health professionals, and associated non-profits and vendors, the conference provided sessions, roundtables, and engagement in a number of areas important to its members.

Public Health Organizations Implore Congress to Fund Public Health Surveillance Systems

BY Noam Arzt ON March 25, 2019 CDC | CSTE | RCKMS | Syndromic Surveillance

HLN joined more than eighty organizations, institutions and companies in imploring Congress to fund public health surveillance systems. The appropriations request letters – one to the House and one to the Senate – is seeking $1 billion over ten years (and $100 million in FY 2020) for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to allow CDC, state, local, tribal, and territorial health departments to move from sluggish, manual, paper-based data collection to seamless, automated, interoperable IT systems and to recruit and retain skilled data scientists to use them.

PHI2018 Conference: eCR Rules!

BY Noam Arzt ON August 24, 2018 CDC | CSTE | Events | RCKMS

On August 20-23, 2018 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) sponsored the now-biennial Public Health Informatics Conference in Atlanta, GA with nearly 1,000 public health informatics professionals, vendors, and other stakeholders attending.

HLN Attends CSTE 2018 Annual Conference

BY Noam Arzt ON June 14, 2018 CDC | CSTE | Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) | Events | Open Source

HLN attended the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) 2018 Annual Conference in West Palm Beach, FL on June 11-13 along with over 1,750 epidemiologists public health professionals, and associated non-profits and vendors.