Zabrina Gonzaga is a registered nurse and board-certified pediatric nurse practitioner with a background in pediatric primary care, rehabilitation, and hematology/oncology. She has over 16 years of experience in health information technology, with six years spent designing solutions for a leading electronic health record (EHR) system vendor. Zabrina has implemented solutions for Meaningful Use (MU) and other government incentive programs.

At Lantana, Zabrina leads and facilitates clinical requirements gathering, designs clinical statements, develops standards-based solutions, and creates analytical methodologies to support measured outcomes. She is an expert in post-acute care standards development and interoperability and Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) standards development related to pharmacy, oncology, nutrition, post-acute care and care planning. She leads the development of digital quality measurement in support of the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).

Zabrina is HL7-certified in CDA and is co-chair of the CDA Management Group Co-chair. She has developed and published CDA-based standards and is a primary editor on standards for pharmacy, nutrition, dental, long-term care, and oncology. She led Consolidated CDA (C-CDA) design of the Transfer Summary, Consultation Note, and Referral Note documents and was primary editor for the CDA Framework for Questionnaire Assessments, the Continuity Assessment Record and Evaluation (CARE) and Clinical Oncology Treatment Summary CDA implementation guides (IGs).