Chief Executive Officer

Liora Alschuler is a developer of XML-based standards for the exchange of electronic healthcare information and a consultant in their application to providers and system vendors. In 1997 she led the project that produced the design of the first XML-based exchange specification for healthcare, called the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA). She is the Chief Executive Officer at Lantana, currently designing and implementing standards-based solutions for the nation’s largest providers and public health agencies. Liora helped launch the Health Story Project (CDA for Common Document Types), which is developing implementation guidance to support the integration of millions of clinical documents into the electronic health record.

• Co-editor, HL7′s Clinical Document Architecture, ANSI/HL7 CDA R2.0-2005
• Co-chair, HL7 Structured Documents Work Group
• Health Story Project Executive Committee member
• CDA Academy Faculty Board member
• CDA Release 2 Certified
• Member, HL7 Board of Directors, January 2005 to December 2008
• Author, ABCD… SGML: A User’s Guide to Structured Information, London/Boston: International Thomson Computer Press (ITCP), 1995.
• Member, Thetford, Vermont, Planning Commission