Clinical decision support for electronic case reporting
Revolutionizing the way reportable health conditions including COVID-19 are transmitted to public health agencies
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Case Reporting and COVID-19: Open Source Solutions
BY Noam Arzt ON CDC | COVID-19 | CSTE | 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 CDC | Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | COVID-19 | CSTE | EHR/PHR | 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 >HLN Attends CSTE 2019 Annual Conference
BY Noam Arzt ON CDC | Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | CSTE | Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) | Emergency Preparedness and Biodefense | Events | HIE & Interoperability | RCKMS
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.
Read more >Ready or Not: New Report on Protecting the Public’s Health
BY Noam Arzt ON CDC | Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | Emergency Preparedness and Biodefense | Planning | RCKMS
The Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) released its 2019 edition of what it hopes will be an annual report, Ready or Not: Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters and Bioterrorism last February. The ground-breaking report warns about key global challenges ahead, like the risk of a flu pandemic; the impact of weather pattern changes due to climate change; the dangers of antimicrobial resistance, and others, and tries to offer advice on how to prepare for them.
Read more >Public Health Organizations Implore Congress to Fund Public Health Surveillance Systems
BY Noam Arzt ON CDC | CSTE | RCKMS | Syndromic Surveillance
HLN joined more than eighty organizations, institutions and companies in imploring Congress to fund public health surveillance systems. The appropriations request letters – one to the House and one to the Senate – is seeking $1 billion over ten years (and $100 million in FY 2020) for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to allow CDC, state, local, tribal, and territorial health departments to move from sluggish, manual, paper-based data collection to seamless, automated, interoperable IT systems and to recruit and retain skilled data scientists to use them.
Read more >So I Survived HIMSS19…
BY Noam Arzt ON Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | Events | Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) | RCKMS
This was perhaps more of a fete than it initially seems. The conference was massive, with over 40,000 attendees. It centered around a trade show exhibit hall that spanned multiple football fields in length. In some ways it was so big that I felt somewhat discouraged from attending some educational sessions because they were located so far from where I was hanging out that I could get back and forth in time.
Read more >PHI2018 Conference: eCR Rules!
BY Noam Arzt ON CDC | CSTE | Events | RCKMS
On August 20-23, 2018 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) sponsored the now-biennial Public Health Informatics Conference in Atlanta, GA with nearly 1,000 public health informatics professionals, vendors, and other stakeholders attending.
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