Posts by Lantana Consulting Group
Lantana Names Andrew Laing as Director of Information Analysis and Technology
Lantana Names Nadine Shehab as Chief Scientist
Lantana Consulting Group is pleased to announce that Nadine Shehab, PharmD, MPH has joined the company as Chief Scientist. Shehab will continue her work at the Centers for Disease Control…
Read MoreNurse Informaticist Consultants are Nurses Too!
Standardized Antimicrobial Administration Ratio (SAAR)
2019 NHSN Annual Training
Predictable Reporting: 13 sites, 7 EHRs, 65 measures submitted to State Medicaid
A state HIE needed to find the most efficient path to meet quality reporting targets where each provider site had data that matched up differently against potential target measures. Lantana…
Read MorePredictable Reporting: Community Pharmacists as Care Team Members within the Medical Neighborhood
Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC), the primary care case management program for NC Medicaid, found that it needed consistent, structured, and coded data from its community pharmacy partners in…
Read MoreImproving Hospital Quality and Accountability through Public Reporting
Collecting and analyzing quality of care and payment data is central to the shift from volume to value-based care. Reporting the results publicly is essential to the government’s mission to…
Read MoreImproving Public Health through Public Reporting
In 2007, as the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) was gearing up to collect information on healthcare associated infections (HAIs), they needed a mechanism to pull information captured in local…
Read MoreLantana Releases Open-Source Trifolia-On-FHIR Tool
January 18, 2019 – Lantana Consulting Group, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of Trifolia-on-FHIR, a new tool for authoring and publishing HL7® FHIR® implementation guides (IGs) and one…
Read More2018 ID Week Conference
Amy Webb, MPH, CHES presented a poster comparing the first cohort of NHSN Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (AUR) Module reporting facilities to non-AUR reporting facilities at the 2018 ID Week…
Read MoreLantana Awarded Hospital Quality Initiatives Support Contract
September 13, 2018 – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded Lantana Consulting Group a task order to continue its support of publicly available quality of care information…
Read MoreLantana Awarded Measure & Instrument Development and Support (MIDS) Umbrella Contract
August 24, 2018 – CMS awarded Lantana Consulting Group an umbrella contract to support quality improvement programs.
Read MoreNHSN Annual Training 2018
Amy Webb, MPH, CHES presented a session on the NHSN Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (AUR) Module reporting and analysis at the NHSN Annual Training in March 2018.
Read MoreLantana Awarded National Healthcare Safety Network IDIQ Contract & Task Orders
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded Lantana Consulting Group a five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract and two task orders to support standards-based electronic reporting of healthcare associated…
Read MoreLong Term and Post Acute Care (LTPAC) Summit – 2015
The LTPAC Summit was held in Baltimore, MD June 21-23, 2015. The LTPAC Health IT Collaborative has convened key HIT leaders, policy makers, leading providers, federal state grantees and other…
Read MoreFHIR CDA Position Statement and Roadmap
This position statement addresses the relationship between HL7’s Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) product line and the Fast Health Interoperability Resource (FHIR) product line. It was prepared jointly by Lantana Consulting…
Read More2014 WEDI Summer Forum – Consolidated CDA R2
Lantana’s Russell Hamm alongside Durwin Day with Health Care Service Corporation and Eric Pupo from Deloitte led a session on Consolidated CDA (C-CDA) R2 at the 2014 WEDI Summer Forum. The session…
Read MoreAre Meaningful Use Stage 2 certified EHRs ready for interoperability? Findings from the SMART C-CDA Collaborative
Upgrades to electronic health record (EHR) systems scheduled to be introduced in the USA in 2014 will advance document interoperability between care providers. Specifically, the second stage of the federal…
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