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Successful Public Health IT Project Collaboration
Most public health information technology projects rely on strong collaboration to be successful, especially across vendor-client boundaries. This blog provides some successful strategies.
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Consumer Access to Health Care Data: Still a Challenge
ONC launched a Consumer Health Data Aggregator Challenge to spur the development of new applications and partnerships to provide aggregated health data to patients.
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HLN at 2016 OSEHRA Open Source Summit
Our work bringing the ICE immunization forecasting system to VA-VistA is a major effort for the next several years and a conspicuous activity at the Summit.
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HLN at 2016 CSTE Annual Conference
HLN attended the 2016 Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Annual Conference and presented on several topics.
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Or Maybe It’s Siloed Workflow?
In an earlier post I wondered whether public health’s siloed systems might not be more appropriately thought of as siloed data. But after attend a meeting of the Joint Public Health Informatics Taskforce (JPHIT) I am wondering whether the issue is really siloed workflow.
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Siloed Systems or Siloed Data?
Categorical funding, insufficient resources, and lack of agency vision keep public health systems isolated and unintegrated – a phenomenon often referred to as “siloed” systems.
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