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TEFCA: A Public Health Perspective (final)
In January 2018 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued a draft Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), and related supporting documents, in response to a requirement imposed by Congress in the 21st Century Cures Act.
Read more >HLN Participates in PCORS CDS Learning Network National Webinar
Dr. Noam Arzt, President of HLN, spoke about the business case for clinical decision support for immunizations, and about HLN’s Open Source ICE vaccine evaluation and forecasting product in a national webinar on January 18, 2018.
Read more >Approaches for IIS-HIE Collaboration
IIS and HIE projects need to work together to determine which option for collaboration is best. In large part, choices will depend on how stakeholders wish for the HIE to be involved in IIS data exchange – both short‐term and long‐term. Projects should consider HIE intermediation within the context of overall long‐term HIE/public health data exchange strategy.
Read more >HIE: The New Landscape
In the past several years we have seen a real shift in leadership over Health Information Exchange (HIE) in the US. The phase out of the ONC State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program in 2014 marked a real turning point in HIE planning and implementation as ONCs leadership has waned and other more market-driven forces have ascended.
Read more >Update on Patient Matching Activities
On December 11, 2017 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) sponsored a half-day “Interoperability in Action” webinar focused on Patient Matching Milestones at ONC (see agenda and slides). The webinar focused on four ONC projects from the past year.
Read more >HLN Attends CDC Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Grantee Meeting
The meeting featured EHDI programs from
states and territories across the U.S., along with national experts in areas of hearing screening and diagnostic audiology as well as epidemiology, public health informatics, health outcomes and program evaluation.