HLN Consulting LLC

“We thrive on new challenges. We are driven to excellence through collaborative engagements large and small to help customers successfully deploy innovative solutions. As the COVID pandemic eases, we continue to work closely with clients to strengthen their systems and prepare for the next likely event.”
– Dr. Noam Arzt, President

Welcome

HLN Consulting is a leading health information technology consulting company. Our mission is to enhance and support the capabilities of public health organizations and healthcare providers by providing high-quality consulting services, strategic planning, and software development including open source.

Who We Are

What We Do

Develop and maintain new or existing systems for our clients

Manage a process to ensure successful roll out of new systems

Devise innovative strategies to solve organizational challenges

Featured Solutions

Open Source immunization evaluation and forecasting

Replacing a decommissioned product with a well-supported system while adding a useful enhancement

Ensuring successful system migration

Leveraging a proven methodology and tools to operationalize a new immunization information system (IIS)

Clinical decision support for electronic case reporting

Revolutionizing the way reportable health conditions including COVID-19 are transmitted to public health agencies

Recent Blog Posts

Leveraging the ICE Open Source Immunization Forecaster during COVID

Like many things in the age of COVID, the vaccine development landscape is
unlike anything we have seen in our lifetimes. There are over 100 SARS vaccines currently in development, many of which are utilizing new technologies not used in any currently licensed vaccine. The potential impact on immunization schedules (clinical guidelines for clinicians) and immunization clinical decision support is significant.

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.

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.

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.