HLN Learnings Newsletter

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched a data modernization initiative (DMI) focused on improving the data management capabilities of public health in the United States. Congress has appropriated a significant amount of funding for Federal and state, territorial, local, and tribal (STLT) public health agencies. We present some sizable barriers and challenges to seeing the vision for DMI come to fruition.

HLN released a new version (v1.37.2) of the Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE). This version includes significant updates to the COVID-19 vaccine group to align ICE with the latest immunization recommendations. This version of ICE also includes updates to the Hepatitis B, Orthopoxvirus, and Pneumococcal vaccine groups.
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) approved the recommendations of its ad hoc Public Health Data Systems Task Force. Check out the specific comments of the recommendations.

The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) project released a draft TEFCA Facilitated FHIR Implementation Guide. This draft implementation guide (IG) provides the initially proposed details for this functionality. Get a public health perspective here.
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