HLN Attends 2023 Sequoia National Meeting
HLN attended the Sequoia Project Annual Meeting held this year in San Diego. A public health viewpoint on the meeting and the advancements achieved in the TEFCA project is presented here.
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ICE: A “Cool” Tool Supporting Immunization Evaluation and Forecasting
BY Erin Roche and Daryl Chertcoff ON Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | EHR/PHR | Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Open Source | Technology
Read about one organization’s recent transition to ICE; a “cool” tool providing improved immunization clinical decision support to their clients and users.
Read more >HLN presents at the 41st WorldVistA Community Meeting
BY Erin Roche ON Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | EHR/PHR | Events | Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Open Source | Public Health | Technology
HLN recently took part in the 41st WorldVistA Community Meeting to share information about the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) software.
Read more >HLN takes part in the CDC Health Data Innovation Summit
BY Lux Phatak ON CDC | DMI | Events | FHIR | HL7 | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Public Health | Technology
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.
Read more >HLN takes part in the ONC Tech Forum 2023
BY Mike Berry ON ASTP/ONC | CDC | DMI | Events | HL7 | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Public Health | Technology
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.
Read more >IIS-IIS Interoperability… What We’ve Learned Along the Way
BY Marcey Propp ON CDC | HL7 | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Public Health | Technology
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.
Read more >Mike Berry Joins the AIRA Board of Directors
BY Lux Phatak ON DMI | Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Open Source | Public Health | Technology
HLN Senior Project Manager Mike Berry has been elected as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA) for the 2023-2025 term.
Read more >Low-cost Application Platforms (LCAP): What They Should Mean to Public Health
BY Noam Arzt ON DMI | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Open Source | Planning | Procurement | Public Health | Technology
Low-cost Application Platforms (LCAP) are an emerging approach for the development of core public health applications. The post discusses the LCAP software development and what techniques public health can use to develop applications without sacrificing the quality, precision and functionality of complex systems.
Read more >WHO Releases Report on Emerging Technologies and Scientific Innovations
BY Noam Arzt ON DMI | Planning | Public Health | Technology
World Health Organization (WHO) released its report on Emerging Technologies and Scientific Innovations: A Global Public Health Perspective for 2023, after consulting with a group of global health experts, providing valuable and comprehensive insights. Read our summary and observations.
Read more >Data Linkage and Identity Management – Privacy Protecting Record Linkage (PPRL)
BY Noam Arzt ON CDC | COVID-19 | DMI | Matching | Public Health | Technology
In October 2022 the CDC Foundation convened a set of stakeholders to discuss Privacy Protecting Record Linkage (PPRL). HLN was asked to prepare a summary of this stakeholder session for reference by public agencies considering using PPRL in their systems.
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