Mike Berry Joins the AIRA Board of Directors
HLN Senior Project Manager Mike Berry has been elected as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA) for the 2023-2025 term.
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Low-cost Application Platforms (LCAP): What They Should Mean to Public Health
BY Noam Arzt ON DM | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Open Source | Planning | Procurement | Public Health | Technology
Low-cost Application Platforms (LCAP) are an emerging approach for the development of core public health applications. The post discusses the LCAP software development and what techniques public health can use to develop applications without sacrificing the quality, precision and functionality of complex systems.
Read more >WHO Releases Report on Emerging Technologies and Scientific Innovations
BY Noam Arzt ON DM | Planning | Public Health | Technology
World Health Organization (WHO) released its report on Emerging Technologies and Scientific Innovations: A Global Public Health Perspective for 2023, after consulting with a group of global health experts, providing valuable and comprehensive insights. Read our summary and observations.
Read more >Data Linkage and Identity Management – Privacy Protecting Record Linkage (PPRL)
BY Noam Arzt ON CDC | COVID-19 | DM | Matching | Public Health | Technology
In October 2022 the CDC Foundation convened a set of stakeholders to discuss Privacy Protecting Record Linkage (PPRL). HLN was asked to prepare a summary of this stakeholder session for reference by public agencies considering using PPRL in their systems.
Read more >SDLC: It’s Not Just About Technology
BY Marcey Propp ON CDC | DM | Open Source | Planning | Procurement | Project Management | Public Health | Technology
The delivery of public health information systems relies on the concerted convergence of people, process, and technology in a disciplined manner to ensure a quality product.
Read more >The Changing Face of Public Health System Procurement
BY Noam Arzt ON CDC | DM | Open Source | Planning | Procurement | Project Management | Public Health | Technology
The development and acquisition of public health systems is poised to change. For agencies, this will necessitate a change in procurement practices.
Read more >ONC Releases Several New Specifications in 2022
BY Noam Arzt ON EHR/PHR | ASTP/ONC | COVID-19 | HIE & Interoperability | Matching | Public Health | Technology | TEFCA
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) started off the new year by releasing several new specifications supporting health information interoperability.
Read more >HLN Adds Additional Support for Earliest/Overdue Date in Latest Release of Open Source Immunization Forecaster
BY Noam Arzt ON Immunization Information System (IIS) | Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | EHR/PHR | Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) | Open Source | Technology
A new release (v 1.12.1) of the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) is now available. ICE is a state-of-the-art open-source software system that provides clinical decision support (CDS) for immunizations for use in Immunization Information Systems (IIS), Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Personal Health Record (PHR) Systems.
Read more >HLN Updates White Paper on IIS/EHR Feature Overlap
BY Noam Arzt ON Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | EHR/PHR | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Matching | Meaningful Use | Technology
IIS and electronic health record (EHR) systems have always had unique features, as well as some overlapping features, and the deployment of EHRs has enhanced the local immunization capabilities of clinician practices. Several critical clinical features that are considered to be core functions of IIS are beginning to be supported by EHRs.
Read more >HLN Adds Support for Earliest/Overdue Date in Latest Release of Open Source Immunization Forecaster
BY Noam Arzt ON Immunization Information System (IIS) | Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | EHR/PHR | Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) | Open Source | Technology
A new release (v 1.11.1) of the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) is now available). ICE is a state-of-the-art open-source software system that provides clinical decision support (CDS) for immunizations for use in Immunization Information Systems (IIS), Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Personal Health Record (PHR) Systems.
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