Posts by Lantana Group Editor
US Hydroxychloroquine, Chloroquine, and Azithromycin Outpatient Prescription Trends, October 2019 Through March 2020
Nadine Shehab, Chief Scientist, co-authored this CDC report which quantifies changes in outpatient prescriptions of hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine, and azithromycin during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreWhat is One Thing We Can Do to Improve the Use of Health Information?
What is one thing we can do to improve the use of health information? Our team weighs in. Missed our last vlog? Check it out here.
Read MoreNon-COVID Patient Perspectives on Hospitalization During the COVID-19 Era
Navigating the healthcare system can be overwhelming during the best of times, but it’s even more challenging during a public health crisis. Seeing the impact on the news and reading about it are different than experiencing it. These are our stories of medical emergencies during the coronavirus crisis. Krisden’s experience – Patient Perspective On April…
Read MoreA Year of Stories
Lantana’s Clinical Advisory Council was published on American Nurses Association’s A Year of Stories with their story on how Nurse Informaticists contribute to the fight against COVID-19.
Read MoreMIDS c3 Forum
Our CMS Hospital Quality Initiatives Public Reporting Support Contract team (Chris Truman, Larissa Mennen, and Ruby Nash) were invited to present a 15-20 minute overview of the project for the MIDS c3 Forum. The team presented a program overview (including history of this task order), task order purpose and scope, primary tasks and deliverable, upcoming…
Read MoreTransfusion‐associated adverse events and implementation of blood safety measures ‐ findings from the 2017 National Blood Collection and Utilization Survey
Matt Sapiano is second author on this paper, which describes the rate of transfusion‐associated adverse events and the implementation of specific blood safety measures.”
Read MoreCircumstances Involved in Unsupervised Solid Dose Medication Exposures among Young Children
Mathew R.P. Sapiano, PhD contributed to this new study from CDC, Emory and 5 poison centers which found that when young children ingested prescription pills, over half the time the pills had been removed from original packaging by an adult.
Read MoreA California Campaign for AUR Reporting
Reporting on the usage and growing resistance to antimicrobials is a key objective for the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). In 2017, they engaged Lantana to encourage and support hospital reporting of Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (AUR) data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Healthcare and Safety Network (NHSN). Lantana…
Read MoreSending out an S.O.S.: Learning SAS Essentials
I first thought SAS was a coding program used for cleaning up and validating large amounts of data and for generating reports. Since I had never coded before, it seemed too complicated, and I thought I could just use Excel as a data analysis tool. But SAS is more efficient than manually validating data or…
Read MoreLantana Webinar Registration
Please register for the upcoming webinar here. As a reminder, the webinar will be held on December 16th at 11AM ET. Please hold this time on your calendar until you receive an e-mail with webinar information. If you have questions, please contact info@lantanagroup.com.
Read MoreLantana Names Andrew Laing as Director of Information Analysis and Technology
Lantana Consulting Group is pleased to announce that Andrew Laing has joined as Director of Information Analysis and Technology. Laing comes to Lantana from the State of Vermont where he served as the Agency of Human Services Director of Business Architecture and later the state’s first Chief Data Officer.
Read MoreLantana 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 and Prevention (CDC) where she provided leadership in adverse drug event (ADE) surveillance using a national public health surveillance system.
Read MoreNurse Informaticist Consultants are Nurses Too!
Lantana’s Clinical Advisory Council (CAC) had to opportunity to author a Nursing Vignette for National Nurses’ Week featured on the HIMSS website. Click below to read the piece on www.himss.org.
Read MoreStandardized Antimicrobial Administration Ratio (SAAR)
Erin O’Leary presented on NHSN’s risk-adjusted antimicrobial use summary metric, the Standardized Antimicrobial Administration Ratio (SAAR) at the 2019 NHSN Annual Training.
Read More2019 NHSN Annual Training
The Lantana Team presented two sessions at the NHSN Annual Training in March 2019. Wendy Wise, MPH, PMP presented on NHSN Antimicrobial Use Option reporting and analysis and Amy Webb, MPH, CHES presented on and Antimicrobial Resistance Option reporting and analysis.
Read MorePredictable 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 determined the shortest pathway to predictable, reliable reporting for each site. Our clinical analysts schematized the requirements across the set of potential measures, then assessed…
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 the Community Pharmacy Enhanced Services Network (CPESN) in order to support quality metrics. During the initial years of CPESN pharmacy partnerships, community pharmacy encounters with…
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 put the consumer at the center of this transformation. Lantana has provided key services at each stage of the data collection, analysis, and reporting process.…
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 infection control applications and EHRs without redundant data entry. The prevalent standards for data sharing could not easily model the reports and were not compatible…
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 of the first FHIR tools to support the latest release (FHIR R4/STU3).
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