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Public Health Organizations Implore Congress to Fund Public Health Surveillance Systems

BY Noam Arzt ON March 25, 2019 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.

HLN Sponsors ISDS 2019 Annual Conference

BY Noam Arzt ON January 2, 2019 Emergency Preparedness and Biodefense | Planning | Syndromic Surveillance

HLN is pleased to be a Patron-level sponsor of the 18th Annual International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) Annual Meeting being held in San Diego, CA from January 30 – February 1, 2019. This conference expects to bring together more than 400 participants with over 220 presentations and ten workshops dedicated to the advancement of the science and practice of biosurveillance.

A Public Health Perspective ONC’s Strategy to Reduce Burden on Physicians

BY Noam Arzt ON December 19, 2018 HIE & Interoperability | Meaningful Use | ONC | Syndromic Surveillance

On November 28, 2018 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released a draft Strategy on Reducing Regulatory and Administrative Burden Relating to the Use of Health IT and EHRs for public comment. The strategy aims to reduce the time and effort and improve the functionality of electronic health records (EHRs) for clinicians, hospitals, and other healthcare organizations.

Is the US Finally Ready to Get Serious About Biodefense?

BY Noam Arzt ON November 19, 2018 CDC | Syndromic Surveillance

Biological and other disaster threats – whether accidental, driven by forces of nature, or intentional – pose fairly grave risks to the United States and the world. Situational awareness has been a conspicuous topic ever since the 9/11 attacks and the anthrax scare that followed shortly thereafter. Since then we have experienced numerous disasters: health impacts of major weather events such as hurricanes and earthquakes, new virus outbreaks like Ebola in Africa, raging wildfires on the West Coast, and the ever-present threat of pandemic flu which a hundred years ago infected some 500 million people across the globe and killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide, according to the Center for Disease Control and Preparedness (CDC).

HLN Submits Comments to CMS on IPPS NPRM

BY Noam Arzt ON June 14, 2018 EHR/PHR | Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) | HIE & Interoperability | Meaningful Use | Syndromic Surveillance

On June 14, 2018 HLN submitted the following comments on the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) 2019 Inpatient Prospective Payment System Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to Quality Payment Program.

New GAO Report Chides HHS About Situation Awareness System

BY Noam Arzt ON September 28, 2017 CDC | HIE & Interoperability | Planning | Syndromic Surveillance

GAO pointed out lapses in completing Congressionally-mandated requirements for this area including the definition of minimal data elements required and collaboration with state, local, and tribal public health officials on the development of standards and procedures to ensure proper data collection.

Dr. Arzt gives presentation at CSTE 2015

BY Noam Arzt ON December 23, 2015 HL7 | Open Source | Syndromic Surveillance

Dr. Arzt, President of HLN, gave a presentation about an Open Source HL7 quality assurance tool for syndromic surveillance ADT messages at the 2015 CSTE annual meeting in Denver on December 9.