Key Takeaways from CSTE 2025: Celebrating Public Health Data Modernization Success
Discover key highlights from HLN’s attendance at CSTE 2025 — public health collaboration, data modernization, and electronic case reporting advancements.
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HLN to attend CSTE 2025 Annual Conference
BY Aasa Dahlberg Schmit ON CDC | Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | COVID-19 | CSTE | Disease Surveillance Systems (DSS) | Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) | Events | FHIR | Public Health | RCKMS | Syndromic Surveillance
HLN team attended and actively participated at the CSTE24 in Pittsburgh. Learn about our team’s perspective and highlights of the event here.
Read more >Provider Perspectives on Interjurisdictional Exchange of Electronic Vaccine Records
BY Marcey Propp ON Immunization Information System (IIS) | EHR/PHR | Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) | HIE & Interoperability | Public Health | RCKMS
Exploring ways to improve interjurisdictional electronic immunization data exchange, the Digital Bridge Immunization Workgroup engaged HLN Consulting to conduct a series of interviews with clinicians and public health stakeholders to document successes, challenges, and opportunities for improvement in sharing electronic vaccine records across state lines.
Read more >Exploring the Future of Public Health Informatics: A Conversation with Noam Arzt at HIMSS25
BY Noam Arzt ON CDC | Cloud Computing | Disease Surveillance Systems (DSS) | DM | Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) | Events | HIMSS | Public Health
Noam Arzt, president at HLN Consulting, discusses public health agencies’ most pressing issues, including the end of pandemic funding, the change of administration and the need to modernize IT systems.
Read more >HLN Attends the Sequoia Project Annual Meeting
BY Kate McMahon ON EHR/PHR | ASTP/ONC | DM | Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) | Events | HIE & Interoperability | Planning | TEFCA
HLN attended the Sequoia Project Annual Meeting in Nashville on December 11th, 2024, where healthcare systems and IT professionals discussed advancements in data interoperability, national models like TECFA, and strategies for broad adoption and usability of these frameworks.
Read more >IIS and DSS: A Common Path to Modernization
BY Marcey Propp and Aasa Dahlberg Schmit ON ASTHO | Disease Surveillance Systems (DSS) | DM | Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) | FHIR | HIE & Interoperability | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Planning | Procurement | Public Health | Technology
Both IIS and DSS are looking for potential solutions offered by a small cadre of vendors and products that will enable them to modernize, innovate and sustain their public health platforms over the next several years. Read about how HLN team helps agencies think through their options.
Read more >Reflections on 2024: Public Health and Cures Act Initiatives
BY Noam Arzt ON ASTHO | ASTP/ONC | DM | EHR/PHR | Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) | Federal Rulemaking | FHIR | HIE & Interoperability | HL7 | Meaningful Use | Planning | Public Health | TEFCA
In September 2024 ASTP/ONC released the 2024 status report to Congress on the Cures Act. Read our summary of this report with a particular eye on its impact on public health and implications for the future.
Read more >HLN Sponsors the 2024 Northeast Epidemiology Conference
BY Ken Hughes ON CSTE | DM | Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) | Events | Public Health
HLN was a proud sponsor of the 2024 Northeast Epidemiology Conference in Atlantic City, NJ held from November 7th through 8th. Get our perspective of the conference here.
Read more >ASTP/ONC Releases Draft Federal FHIR Action Plan
BY Noam Arzt ON ASTP/ONC | Disease Surveillance Systems (DSS) | DM | EHR/PHR | Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) | Federal Rulemaking | FHIR | HIE & Interoperability | HL7 | Meaningful Use | Planning | Public Health
In September 2024, ASTP/ONC released a Draft Federal FHIR Action Plan for public comment – the Federal government has declared FHIR “ready for prime time.” Read a short public health perspective on this plan.
Read more >A Public Health Perspective on the HTI-2 Proposed Rule
BY Noam Arzt ON AIRA | ASTP/ONC | CDC | CSTE | DM | EHR/PHR | Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) | Federal Rulemaking | FHIR | HIE & Interoperability | HL7 | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Meaningful Use | Planning | Public Health | Syndromic Surveillance
As the comment period for ASTP/ONC’s HTI-2 proposed rule passes, HLN summarizes some key thoughts from a public health perspective on the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability (HTI-2) Proposed Rule.
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