Posts by Liora Alschuler
An Initiative to Exchange extended RBC Phenotyping Information using FHIR
What We Love About Lantana
HATA Educational Webinar: Slaying the Fax Machine
Electronic Attachments Tell a Comprehensive Health Story
Anticipated HHS regulations are expected to provide standards for electronic documents used as attachments to support reimbursement-related transactions. On February 5, I was joined by Mary Lynn Bushman, Sr.…
Read MoreComments on Standards for Claims Attachments
Co-author: Kanwarpreet Sethi Lantana Consulting Group commented on the testimony provided on February 16, 2016, to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) Subcommittee on Standards, Hearing…
Read MoreWe go greenLantana
greenLantana is the name of our collective effort to measure, evaluate, and improve the corporate, social, and environmental impacts of our Lantana way of doing business. As the name suggests, our initiative emphasizes environmental responsibility and includes support for “corporate social responsibility”[1] and the “triple bottom line”.[2]
Read MoreHL7 and FHIR: The New Standard for Health Exchange Interoperability
Liora Alschuler and Rick Geimer (remote presenter) presented at the Vermont Information Technology Leaders (VITL) Summit on October 1, 2015 in Burlington, VT. They provided a brief history of HL7 standards, an overview…
Read MoreHIT on Parade at the 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting
HIT vendors eager to advance the cause of shareable clinical information – and their products – can do so this Spring in a first-of-a-kind interoperability demonstration. ASCO is not primarily a trade or HIT show. It is the central venue for 25,000+ cancer clinicians, researchers, and other stakeholders from around the world.
Read MoreDevelopment, implementation, and initial evaluation of a foundational open interoperability standard for oncology treatment planning and summarization, JAMIA January 2015
Authors: Jeremy L. Warner, Suzanne E. Maddux, Kevin S. Hughes, John C. Krauss, Peter Paul Yu, Lawrence N. Shulman, Deborah K. Mayer, Mike Hogarth , Mark Shafarman , Allison Stover Fiscalini,…
Read MoreHealth Level 7 Policy Conference – Winter 2014
The HL7 Policy Conference was held on December 4-5, 2014. The meeting focused on how policy can accelerate interoperability and foster innovation. Liora Alschuler gave a presentation on standards maturity, the alignment…
Read MoreWEDI Webinar – Interoperability: Practical, Affordable & Valuable
Interoperability is key to delivering value-based care – and lack of ROI for HIT investment is a major barrier to interoperability. Ever wonder how to break through this cycle? Take…
Read MoreWebinar – CDA on FHIR: The Road Ahead
Lantana hosted a CDA on FHIR: The Road Ahead webinar on September 9, 2014. We provided an overview of each standard and the efforts to migrate or recreate CDA on a FHIR…
Read MoreCDA Experts on FHIR
At Lantana, we are all pretty comfortable working with CDA. I think we are also pretty open to understanding its limitations. The current CDA, Release 2, was developed ten years ago. It was designed to meet a range of requirements from simple, transformed-from-dictation documents to fully coded, semantically interoperable reports. A key design consideration, a requirement for passing ballot within HL7 at that time, was full compatibility with Version 3 messaging and an explicit tie-in to the Reference Information Model (RIM).
Read MoreBrag Blog: HAIMS Nails it for Veterans
The great thing about a career in health IT is that we have so many problems to solve. The drag is that it occasionally feels as if we operate on…
Read MoreLantana Annual Retreat: Full Speed Forward
Lantana’s company retreat started out with a review of the company vision statement, pared down to the following: “We want to see health information available across the spectrum of care, supporting safe, effective, affordable healthcare that improves well-being, public health, quality of care, and research.”
From there, we spent a day and a half reviewing our goals, strategy, and tactics to realize this vision. We found, to our satisfaction, that our long-time company motto[i], “have fun, make money, improve the industry” works just fine to articulate our goals.
Read MoreHealth Story at HIMSS 2014 Showcase
Liora Alschuler gave a talk on the Health Story Project at the HIMSS 2014 Interoperability Showcase. The talk was titled “Interoperability For Everyone” and described the Project background, purpose and…
Read MoreThe Health Story Project for Interoperability
At the 2014 IHE NA Connectathon in Chicago, Liora Alschuler presented “The Health Story Project for Interoperability.” Liora discussed the evolution and past contributions of the Health Story Project and corresponding partnerships,…
Read MoreSetting the Standard: EHR Quality Reporting Rises in Prominence Due to Meaningful Use
In this article, published in the January 2014 Journal of AHIMA, thought leaders from Lantana Consulting Group and HHS’s Centers for Medicaid & Medicare (CMS) discuss the industry mandate to measure…
Read More2013 WEDI Report
Lantana President & CEO, Liora Alschuler contributed to the 2013 WEDI Report as a Work Group Co Chair. The objective is to provide a roadmap for industry action by focusing…
Read MoreNew England HIMSS: Ensuring Value in the Electronic Clinical Record
Liora Alschuler shared an overview of the Health Story Project and its vision for comprehensive electronic records that tell a patient’s complete health story.
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