HLN Presents at CDC-ONC Industry Days
HLN attended and presented at CDC-ONC Industry Days on February 27-28, 2023 in Washington, DC. This was the first event of its kind, convened by the CDC Foundation for CDC and ONC.
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HLN Participates in HL7 Connectathon in Las Vegas
BY Mike Berry ON AIRA | DM | Events | FHIR | HL7 | Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Open Source
HLN participated in the HL7 FHIR Connectathon in Las Vegas on January 14-15, 2023 representing the Rhode Island Child and Adult Immunization Registry (RICAIR) in the Helios Accelerator Bulk Data Track.
Read more >Draft TEFCA Facilitated FHIR Implementation Guide: A Public Health Perspective
BY Noam Arzt ON ASTP/ONC | EHR/PHR | FHIR | HIE & Interoperability | HL7 | Planning | TEFCA
The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) project released a Draft TEFCA Facilitated FHIR Implementation Guide. Get a public health perspective here.
Read more >Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) held a Data Modernization Workshop
BY Mike Berry ON Immunization Information System (IIS) | CDC | DM | Events | FHIR | Public Health
HLN presented at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Data Modernization Workshop. The presentation was on integrated child health information system architecture models, using Rhode Island’s KIDSNET as an example. The talk included discussion about how such models can inform DMI, as well as considerations for such models in a DMI and FHIR-enabled world.
Read more >CMS IPPS Proposed Rule Could Benefit Public Health
BY Noam Arzt ON Public Health | AIRA | CSTE | FHIR | HL7
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed revision to the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) for operating and capital-related costs of acute care hospitals.
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Leveraging a proven methodology and tools to operationalize a new immunization information system (IIS)
Read more >Case Reporting and COVID-19: Open Source Solutions
BY Noam Arzt ON CDC | COVID-19 | CSTE | Disease Surveillance Systems (DSS) | Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) | Emergency Preparedness and Biodefense | FHIR | Open Source | RCKMS
As people begin to spend more time together again, it is critically important that public health agencies do everything they can to help prevent further spread of the infection and continue to monitor the level of infection within the population. A national project has been underway to implement electronic case reporting (eCR).
Read more >Senate White Paper: Preparing for the Next Pandemic
BY Noam Arzt ON EHR/PHR | CDC | Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | COVID-19 | CSTE | Disease Surveillance Systems (DSS) | Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) | Emergency Preparedness and Biodefense | FHIR | HIE & Interoperability | HL7 | Open Source | RCKMS
On June 10, 2020 the US Senate released a white paper titled “Preparing for the Next Pandemic” under the signature of Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. The white paper has five recommendations to address future pandemics based on lessons learned from COVID-19 and the past 20 years of pandemic planning.
Read more >Leveraging the ICE Open Source Immunization Forecaster during COVID-19
BY Noam Arzt ON Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | COVID-19 | FHIR | Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) | Open Source
Like many things in the age of COVID-19, the vaccine development landscape is unlike anything we have seen in our lifetimes. There are over 100 SARS-CoV-2 vaccines currently in development, many of which are utilizing new technologies not used in any currently licensed vaccine. The potential impact on immunization schedules (clinical guidelines for clinicians) and immunization clinical decision support is significant.
Read more >Epic and Cerner Connect to HLN’s ICE at FHIR Connectathon
BY Noam Arzt ON EHR/PHR | Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | FHIR | HL7 | Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) | Open Source
At the 18th FHIR Connectathon in Cologne, Germany on May 12-13, 2018, HLN successfully integrated its open source Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) service with test instances of two Electronic Health Record (EHR) products, Epic and Cerner, using the CDS Hooks standard.
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