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HLN Attends 2023 Sequoia National Meeting

HLN attended the Sequoia Project Annual Meeting held this year in San Diego. A public health viewpoint on the meeting and the advancements achieved in the TEFCA project is presented here.

HLN Released Updates to Pneumococcal Vaccine Group in its Award Winning ICE Open Source Immunization Forecaster

HLN released a new version (v1.41.1) of the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE). 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.

HLN supports updates to several vaccine groups in its Award Winning ICE Open Source Immunization Forecaster

HLN released a new version (v1.40.1) of the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE). 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.

HLN takes part in the CDC Health Data Innovation Summit

The CDC Foundation held a follow-up event to the CDC-ONC Industry Day: The CDC Health Data Innovation Summit. HLN Consulting presented on shared services for IIS data exchange.

HLN takes part in the ONC Tech Forum 2023

ONC held a two-day virtual workshop that highlighted the current state of public health data exchange across the US. HLN Consulting was a part of a panel that discussed modernizing public health data exchange.

IIS-IIS Interoperability… What We’ve Learned Along the Way

BY Marcey Propp ON September 20, 2023 CDC | HL7 | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Public Health | Technology

HLN supports IIS implementations in New York City (CIR) and Rhode Island (KIDSNET/RICAIR). As we began testing connections to other IIS, we wondered whether IIS-IIS HL7 data exchange might yield similar issues as noted with existing EHR to IIS reporting. Testing of IIS-IIS pairings has highlighted several variances in platform configuration, business rules and policies – some that existed and some that did not.

Two conferences, two cities, different perspectives (CSTE and NACCHO)

HLN recently sponsored and exhibited at two major conferences, CSTE in Salt Lake City, UT, and NACCHO in Denver, CO during the summer. Get our staff’s perspective of the conferences.

HLN releases an update to the COVID-19 vaccine group in its Award Winning ICE Open Source Immunization Forecaster

HLN released a new version (v1.39.1) of the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE). 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.

HITAC Task Force Comments on ONC HTI-1 NPRM

On June 15, 2023 the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing (HTI-1) Proposed Rule Task Force 2023 released its recommendations on proposed provisions to the ONC Health IT Certification Program. Get a public health perspective here.

Understand CDC’s Data Modernization Initiative (DMI) presented during the virtual ASTHO TechXpo event

BY Lux Phatak ON June 19, 2023 CDC | DM | Events | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Public Health

CDC’s Data Modernization Initiative (DMI) was presented by Dr. Noam Arzt during the virtual ASTHO TechXpo event. Understand DMI and its impact on local public health agencies.