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Encrypting Data at Rest on Servers: What does it get you?
It is common practice today to encrypt data at rest, that is, data stored on servers. To build off an old adage, no one ever got fired for encrypting their data. But what protection does that really provide? Is just encrypting data enough?
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HLN Supports Open Source ICE Deployment by VHA
HLN Consulting is pleased to announce a new project with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) which will result in the incorporation of HLN’s Open Source ICE Immunization Evaluation and Forecasting software into VistA, the EHR used by VHA, and its deployment system-wide over the next few years.
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HLN Participates in AIRA 2016 Hawai’i Regional Meeting
HLN’s president, Dr. Noam Arzt, participated in a regional meeting in Hawai’i sponsored by the American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA).
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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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