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HLN Attends the AIRA 2022 National Meeting
The HLN Consulting team attended the AIRA 2022 National Virtual Meeting held on April 26-27, 2022. Over 650 individuals attended the virtual meeting – AIRA’s largest meeting to date. The HLN team presented two breakout sessions.
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Leveraging clinical decision support by IIS during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
Immunization Information Systems (IIS), electronic health records (EHR), and consumer health apps all need to determine if vaccinations received are clinically valid and if people are up-to-date with their vaccinations. But very often, external systems that receive IIS data do not make use of this information.
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Sequoia Releases a Useful Workgroup Report on Information and Pandemic Response
The Sequoia Project released its Emergency Preparedness Information Workgroup’s Pandemic Response Insights and Recommendations. The report has a strong public health focus and it provides succinct recommendations for pandemic preparedness.
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Cures Act EHR Reporting Program Draft Measures: What this Means for Public Health
As part of the ONC Health IT Certification Program, Congress mandated the establishment of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) Reporting Program to help determine the effectiveness of the program.
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ONC Releases Several New Specifications in 2022
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) started off the new year by releasing several new specifications supporting health information interoperability.
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HLN updates COVID-19 vaccine rules support in its Award Winning ICE Open Source Immunization Forecaster
On February 1, 2022, HLN released a new version (v1.34.1) of the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) in support of updates to the COVID-19 vaccine. ICE is a state-of-the-art open source software system that provides clinical decision support for immunizations for use in Immunization Information Systems (IIS), Electronic Health Record (EHR), and Personal Health Record (PHR) Systems.
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