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Operating Your Agency’s Systems in the Cloud: Using a Validation Environment to Uncover the Mystery of Cloud Fees

Agencies should use data to drive decisions to move systems to the cloud. Read our perspective on cloud test environments.

Oh, it’s the other HHS NPRM from this summer…

As we pour over the HTI-2 NPRM, HHS recently released the Acquisition of Information Technology; Standards for Health Information Technology proposed rule (HHSAR Case 2023–001). Take a look at our public health perspective.

ASTHO and CDC Announce PHIG Implementation Centers and PHA Funding

The Association of State and Territorial Health Officers (ASTHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have announced the launch of their long-awaited Data Modernization Implementation Centers (IC). Check out the details here.

Immunization Information Systems (IIS): Where are we now and where do we go from here?

Where are immunization information systems now and where do we go from here? Read our newest post on this topic and how it relates to data modernization.

HLN Attends 2023 Sequoia National Meeting

HLN attended the Sequoia Project Annual Meeting held this year in San Diego. A public health viewpoint on the meeting and the advancements achieved in the TEFCA project is presented here.

ICE: A “Cool” Tool Supporting Immunization Evaluation and Forecasting

Read about one organization’s recent transition to ICE; a “cool” tool providing improved immunization clinical decision support to their clients and users.

HLN presents at the 41st WorldVistA Community Meeting

HLN recently took part in the 41st WorldVistA Community Meeting to share information about the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) software.

HLN takes part in the CDC Health Data Innovation Summit

The CDC Foundation held a follow-up event to the CDC-ONC Industry Day: The CDC Health Data Innovation Summit. HLN Consulting presented on shared services for IIS data exchange.

HLN takes part in the ONC Tech Forum 2023

ONC held a two-day virtual workshop that highlighted the current state of public health data exchange across the US. HLN Consulting was a part of a panel that discussed modernizing public health data exchange.

IIS-IIS Interoperability… What We’ve Learned Along the Way

BY Marcey Propp ON September 20, 2023 CDC | HL7 | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Public Health | Technology

HLN supports IIS implementations in New York City (CIR) and Rhode Island (KIDSNET/RICAIR). As we began testing connections to other IIS, we wondered whether IIS-IIS HL7 data exchange might yield similar issues as noted with existing EHR to IIS reporting. Testing of IIS-IIS pairings has highlighted several variances in platform configuration, business rules and policies – some that existed and some that did not.