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HLN Attends AMIA 2023 Annual Symposium

BY Aasa Dahlberg Schmit ON December 1, 2023 Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | DMI | EHR/PHR | Events | Public Health

HLN attended the AMIA 2023 Annual Symposium held in New Orleans. A public health viewpoint on the symposium is presented here.

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 Released Updates to Pneumococcal Vaccine Group in its Award Winning ICE Open Source Immunization Forecaster

HLN released a new version (v1.41.1) of the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE). ICE is a state-of-the-art open source software system that provides clinical decision support for immunizations for use in Immunization Information Systems (IIS), Electronic Health Record (EHR), and Personal Health Record (PHR) Systems.

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.

The Power of Automated CDS: Diving into an Immunization Decision Support Question

BY Erin Roche ON October 18, 2023 Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | EHR/PHR | Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Open Source

HLN dives into an immunization decision-support question by a clinician to analyze the power of automated CDS.

HLN supports updates to several vaccine groups in its Award Winning ICE Open Source Immunization Forecaster

HLN released a new version (v1.40.1) of the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE). ICE is a state-of-the-art open source software system that provides clinical decision support for immunizations for use in Immunization Information Systems (IIS), Electronic Health Record (EHR), and Personal Health Record (PHR) Systems.

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.