BY Liz Abbott ON DM | Planning | Public Health | Technology
The HLN-developed, U.S. Public Health Data Ecosystem training is now available on TRAIN.org as part of a collaboration with the Public Health Foundation to become a TRAIN course provider.
Read more >BY Aasa Dahlberg Schmit and Carolyn Mckinney ON Data Governance | DM | Planning | Project Management | 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 >BY Kate McMahon ON ASTP/ONC | DM | EHR/PHR | 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 >BY Noam Arzt ON AI | Disease Surveillance Systems (DSS) | DM | Federal Rulemaking | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Planning | Procurement | Project Management | Public Health | Technology
With the end of the pandemic and the change in administration, public health informatics is at a crucial crossroad. HLN identifies five key issues facing public health agency informatics programs as they consider their data needs moving forward.
Read more >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 >BY Noam Arzt ON HIE & Interoperability | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Planning | Project Management | Public Health
Civitas Networks for Health has a new draft Health Data Utility (HDU) resource, which is now open for public comment. See our comments from a public health perspective.
Read more >BY Liz Abbott ON DM | Planning | Public Health | Technology
HLN collaborated with the CDC Foundation to compile and develop public health informatics training resources to support the transition of placements of IT and data experts in state, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) health agencies across the country to support the Workforce Acceleration Initiative (WAI). WAI aims to accelerate data system modernization and data utilization to support public health action.
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON AI | CDC | Cloud Computing | DM | FHIR | HIE & Interoperability | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Open Source | Planning | Procurement | Project Management | Public Health | Technology
We are at an interesting crossroads for Immunization Information Systems (IIS). Several jurisdictions have recently started to replace their IIS with different products and pursue a variety of strategies, with several others waiting in the wings to see how these projects fare. Several differing strategies have emerged. Here are some key attributes that are important for any IIS moving forward to ensure sustainability.
Read more >BY Marcey Propp ON COVID-19 | DM | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Planning | Procurement | Public Health
With the momentum of IIS PHIG funding and platform assessments, the next question is where does IIS go from here?
Read more >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.
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