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.
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HLN to Attend the CSTE 2022 Annual Conference
BY Lux Phatak ON Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | COVID-19 | CSTE | Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) | Events | Public Health | RCKMS | Syndromic Surveillance
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.
Read more >Public Health Organizations Implore Congress to Fund Public Health Surveillance Systems
BY Noam Arzt ON 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.
Read more >HLN Sponsors ISDS 2019 Annual Conference
BY Noam Arzt ON Emergency Preparedness and Biodefense | Events | Planning | Syndromic Surveillance
HLN is pleased to be a Patron-level sponsor of the 18th Annual International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) Annual Meeting being held in San Diego, CA from January 30 – February 1, 2019. This conference expects to bring together more than 400 participants with over 220 presentations and ten workshops dedicated to the advancement of the science and practice of biosurveillance.
Read more >A Public Health Perspective ONC’s Strategy to Reduce Burden on Physicians
BY Noam Arzt ON ASTP/ONC | HIE & Interoperability | Meaningful Use | Syndromic Surveillance
On November 28, 2018 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released a draft Strategy on Reducing Regulatory and Administrative Burden Relating to the Use of Health IT and EHRs for public comment. The strategy aims to reduce the time and effort and improve the functionality of electronic health records (EHRs) for clinicians, hospitals, and other healthcare organizations.
Read more >Is the US Finally Ready to Get Serious About Biodefense?
BY Noam Arzt ON CDC | Syndromic Surveillance
Biological and other disaster threats – whether accidental, driven by forces of nature, or intentional – pose fairly grave risks to the United States and the world. Situational awareness has been a conspicuous topic ever since the 9/11 attacks and the anthrax scare that followed shortly thereafter. Since then we have experienced numerous disasters: health impacts of major weather events such as hurricanes and earthquakes, new virus outbreaks like Ebola in Africa, raging wildfires on the West Coast, and the ever-present threat of pandemic flu which a hundred years ago infected some 500 million people across the globe and killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide, according to the Center for Disease Control and Preparedness (CDC).
Read more >HLN Submits Comments to CMS on IPPS NPRM
BY Noam Arzt ON EHR/PHR | Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) | HIE & Interoperability | Meaningful Use | Syndromic Surveillance
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.
New GAO Report Chides HHS About Situation Awareness System
BY Noam Arzt ON CDC | HIE & Interoperability | Planning | Syndromic Surveillance
GAO pointed out lapses in completing Congressionally-mandated requirements for this area including the definition of minimal data elements required and collaboration with state, local, and tribal public health officials on the development of standards and procedures to ensure proper data collection.
Read more >Dr. Arzt gives presentation at CSTE 2015
BY Noam Arzt ON Events | HL7 | Open Source | Syndromic Surveillance
Dr. Arzt, President of HLN, gave a presentation about an Open Source HL7 quality assurance tool for syndromic surveillance ADT messages at the 2015 CSTE annual meeting in Denver on December 9.
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