Provider Perspectives on Interjurisdictional Exchange of Electronic Vaccine Records

Exploring ways to improve interjurisdictional electronic immunization data exchange, the Digital Bridge Immunization Workgroup engaged HLN Consulting to conduct a series of interviews with clinicians and public health stakeholders to document successes, challenges, and opportunities for improvement in sharing electronic vaccine records across state lines. See the final report.

Exploring the Future of Public Health Informatics: A Conversation with Noam Arzt at HIMSS25

In this short video, Noam Arzt, president at HLN Consulting, discusses public health agencies’ most pressing issues, including the end of pandemic funding, the change of administration and the need to modernize IT systems.

IIS and DSS: A Common Path to Modernization

Both IIS and DSS are looking for potential solutions offered by a small cadre of vendors and products that will enable them to modernize, innovate and sustain their public health platforms over the next several years. Read about how HLN team helps agencies think through their options.

HIMSS25: A Public Health Perspective

HLN shares its experience in attending the HIMSS25 conference in Las Vegas, from being an elite sponsor of the Public Health Data Modernization Pre-conference Forum to providing reflections on the conference from a public health perspective.

HLN Presents FHIR & ICE: Solutions for Immunization Interoperability and Clinical Decision Support

HLN demonstrated two of its solutions for IIS interoperability and immunization decision support at the HIMSS25 Conference in Las Vegas. Our efforts related to FHIR for IIS and our award-winning open source Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) were presented as part of the Interop+SMART Experience Pavilion. Thankfully, what happens in Vegas can be shared with you!

Public Health Informatics Priorities

With the end of the pandemic and the change in administration, public health informatics is at a crucial crossroad. HLN identifies five key issues facing public health agency informatics programs as they consider their data needs moving forward.

Civitas HDU Framework Supplement

Civitas Networks for Health has a new draft Health Data Utility (HDU) resource, which is now open for public comment. See our comments from a public health perspective.

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

HLN released a new version of the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) in support of updates to the COVID-19 vaccine. 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.