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HLN to Attend AIRA 2019 Annual Meeting and Anniversary Celebration!

by Noam Arzton July 1, 2019

Join HLN at the upcoming American Immunization Registry Association National Meeting on August 13-15, 2019 in Indianapolis, IN. Visit our booth (as a Gold Sponsor) and attend one of the many presentation we will be delivering with our colleagues and on our own! This year AIRA will be celebrating its twentieth anniversary and HLN is proud to be among its founding members.

Presentations will include:

CT Onboarding: Starting All Over Again After a Migration (Tuesday, August 13)
Improving IIS HL7 Web Service Performance in New York City (Tuesday, August 13)
Open Source for Immunization Information Systems (Tuesday, August 13)
IIS of the Future: Where Might All This Be Going (Wednesday, August 14)
Using Business Intelligence to Improve HPV Up-to-Date Rates [Denver Public Health] (Wednesday, August 14)
Methodology for Implementing Health Factors with Immunization Forecasting (Wednesday, August 14)
Procurement Projects: Yes, they really are projects! [CDC IIS Technical Assistance Collaborative] (Wednesday, August 14)
Transitioning and Expanding Rhode Island’s Childhood Algorithm to ICE (Wednesday, August 14)
CT’s IIS Migration Project: The Real Untold Story (Thursday, August 15)

Come join us for all the fun!

HLN Attends CSTE 2019 Annual Conference

by Noam Arzton June 5, 2019

HLN attended the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) 2019 Annual Conference in Raleigh, NC on June 2-5. Bringing together over 1,600 epidemiologists, public health professionals, and associated non-profits and vendors, the conference provided sessions, roundtables, and engagement in a number of areas important to its members. For the second year HLN is a Bronze sponsor of the conference. “Given our work on Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) we feel it’s critically important to support this event,” commented Dr. Noam Arzt, president of HLN who will attend the meeting along with Janet Hui, “This is an energized community, and the opportunity to exchange ideas and insights is beneficial to everyone.”

This year, Dr. Arzt delivered a talk as part of the program:

“Cloud Computing Tutorial: Driving Solutions in Public Health“

In addition, HLN participated in the presentation of this talk on RCKMS:

“Reportable Conditions Knowledge Management System (RCKMS): Real-Life Implementation Progress and Our Future“

In preparation for the meeting, Open Health News has published a feature article written by HLN, Clinical Decision Support Strategies for Electronic Case Reporting and its Open Source Connection.

ONC Gets It Mostly Right with TEFCA 2.0 [Updated]

by Noam Arzton April 24, 2019

See our final comments on the TEFCA v2 Draft

On April 17, 2019 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released the second draft of its Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) for comment. The initial version was released more than a year ago in January 2018 (see my original blog). As before, this is in response to a requirement imposed by Congress in the 21^st Century Cures Act. After a somewhat lengthy (but well written) introduction, the document contains three parts (compared to just two parts the first time around):

HLN Participates in 2019 California Immunization Coalition Summit

by Noam Arzton April 10, 2019

HLN participated in the 2019 California Immunization Coalition Summit held on April 8-9. 2019 in Riverside, CA. For over twelve years, the CIC Summit has brought together partners and colleagues from throughout California and beyond to share ideas, highlight successes, and identify partnerships.

This year HLN’s president, Dr. Noam Arzt, delivered two talks during breakout sessions at the summit:

Several hundred stakeholders from around California attended this important event.

ONC Releases New NPRM on Interoperability: How Might it Affect Public Health? [Updated]

by Noam Arzton February 27, 2019

See our final comments on the ONC NPRM and the CMS NPRM Patient Matching RFI

On February 11, 2019 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released its latest Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to Improve the Interoperability of Health Information. Referred to by some people as the “Information Blocking NPRM,” since this was the primary topic anticipated, the document actually covers a host of other topics related to interoperability driven primarily by requirements of the 21st Century Cures Act. Besides the initial text of the NPRM, ONC also released a set of summary slides and fact sheets to help explain the document.

Given the relatively minimal mention of core public health reporting certification criteria in this NPRM, there is still a fairly large potential impact on public health. Topics, descriptions, issues, impacts, and potential opportunities discussed in this article and associated documents are based on our careful read of the NPRM and related material. But please note that this information is voluminous and at times confusing. Ongoing discussion and review will attempt to clarify (and if necessary correct) initial ideas presented here.