BY Noam Arzt ON HIE & Interoperability | HL7 | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Meaningful Use
HLN participated in the 2019 California Immunization Coalition Summit held on April 8-9. 2019 in Riverside, CA. For over twelve years, the CIC Summit has brought together partners and colleagues from throughout California and beyond to share ideas, highlight successes, and identify partnerships.
Read more >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 >BY Noam Arzt ON Immunization Information System (IIS) | AIRA | CDC | Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | EHR/PHR | Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) | Open Source
On March 7, 2019, HLN released a new version (v1.16.1) 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.
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON ASTP/ONC | EHR/PHR | HIE & Interoperability | Matching | Planning
On February 11, 2019 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released its latest Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to Improve the Interoperability of Health Information. Referred to by some people as the “Information Blocking NPRM,” since this was the primary topic anticipated, the document actually covers a host of other topics related to interoperability driven primarily by requirements of the 21st Century Cures Act.
Read more >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 >BY Noam Arzt ON AIRA | EHR/PHR | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Matching
This report is in response to mandate in the 21st Century Cures Act for the GAO to study patient matching. To develop this report, GAO reviewed available literature and interviewed more than thirty-five stakeholders (who are not identified) over the course of a year.
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON Immunization Information System (IIS) | AIRA | CDC | Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) | Open Source
On February 1, 2019, HLN released a new version (v1.15.1) 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.
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON ASTP/ONC | CDC | EHR/PHR | HIE & Interoperability | Meaningful Use
This new guide is focused on helping those who both create and use registries understand the issue surrounding leveraging external data to improve registry completeness, accuracy, and usefulness.
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON Immunization Information System (IIS) | Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) | Events | HIE & Interoperability | Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) | Open Source
For the third straight year, HLN Consulting will participate in the Interoperability Showcase at this year’s HIMSS19 Global Conference and Exhibition which is being held in Orlando, FL from February 11-15, 2019. The Showcase itself runs on February 12-14.
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON ASTP/ONC | EHR/PHR | HIE & Interoperability | Meaningful Use
In early January the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued its annual report to Congress for 2018 on the adoption of electronic health records (EHR) and interoperability. This report is required under the HITECH Act and is further informed by requirements of the later 21st Century Cures Act.
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