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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.
HLN Convenes Advisory Board for its Open Source ICE Immunization Forecasting Software
On November 13, 2017 HLN held its first meeting of a newly-formed advisory board for its award-winning Open Source Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) software. The ICE Review Board, as it will be known, is made up of a diverse set of public health, academic, and private-sector stakeholders.
Read more >HLN Presents at AMIA 2017 on RCKMS
On November 8, 2017 Dr. Noam Arzt, President of HLN, participated in a panel discussion titled, “Advancing Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) to Enable Public Health Disease Control and Emergency Response: Getting Into the Technical Weeds” at the annual AMIA conference.
Read more >New Article on Cloud Computing and CDS in OpenHealthNews
Noam Arzt, president of HLN, has published a new article, “Why Cloud-Based Public Health Solutions are a Good Option for Clinical Decision Support” in OpenHealthNews. In this article Dr. Arzt examines some of the key reasons to host public health clinical decision support (CDS) solutions in the cloud.
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