Posts by Lantana Group Editor
A 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).
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 Conference in October 2018.
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 on the Hospital Compare quality rating website.
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 infections to the National Healthcare Safety Network.
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 professional for the last decade to advance policies and initiatives to alight with the national healthcare strategy. The “LTPAC Across Care Settings” session demonstrated how…
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 Group—a recognized leader in the CDA community—and Grahame Grieve, Health Intersections, the FHIR project lead. This statement is not official policy. It is our hope…
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