Company Overview
Lantana Consulting Group helps government agencies, hospitals, technology companies and insurance providers achieve clinical information exchange to support continuity of care and information-driven policy and decision making.
The company has been expanding steadily, keeping pace with new federal standards for digitizing medical records, patient demand for portable information, the growing recognition that data is needed to drive change, and hospitals’ need to identify cost savings.
Rationale
In healthcare, patient data is not widely shared or available. Patients often must re-create their medical histories for every new doctor, specialist and hospital they visit, which is inefficient and can lead to medical errors.
Electronic health records are not easily accessible and transferable because even when computerized, doctor’s offices, hospitals and health clinics are not using the same standard to collect and preserve data. Lantana Group’s core competence lies in the solutions to this challenge.
History
Lantana Group’s founders have been leading in the health information exchange space since the early 1990’s. Specifically, its founders led the development of internationally adopted data standards that support exchange and data reuse. Now that there are national (and international) incentives to move toward health information exchange (U.S. health providers are mandated to adopt electronic health record systems by mid-2011), Lantana Group’s services are in even greater demand.
Clients
Lantana Group’s client list includes Fortune 100 companies and organizations in the public and private sectors, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the National Cancer Institute, and the National Quality Forum. (Full client list.)
Services
Lantana Group is a full-service consulting company well-positioned to help healthcare providers, government agencies and insurance providers achieve clinical information exchange and derive benefits from electronic health data management.
Founding Partners
Lantana Group’s principals have written current federal standards for health information exchange. Liora Alschuler, Lantana Group’s CEO, is a leader in healthcare architecture for interoperability and standards development. Dr. Bob Dolin, Lantana Group’s president and chief medical officer, is the current chair of the HL7 standards development organization and a leading figure in the theory and practice of health information interoperability.
Founding Date/History
Lantana Group was formed on January 1, 2011, as a result of a merger between two companies: Alschuler Associates LLC and Semantically Yours LLC. Lantana Group operates in a distributed environment, currently with more than 15 consultants positioned throughout the U.S. and Canada.
