Posts by Liora Alschuler
NAACCR 2013: Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data Capture: Hopes, Fears, and Dreams
In her presentation at the 2013 Annual NAACR Conference Liora Alschuler calls out the promises of EHR data capture and how templated CDA, plus big data, can help achieve goals for better…
Read MoreLantana at HIMSS13: Hello, New Orleans
Eight of us will be in the Crescent City for the better part of a great week. We’re looking forward to meeting with colleagues, clients, prospective clients, old friends and people who share our passion for HIT interoperability, music and good food. Here’s what’s up…
Read MoreOur Perspective on Updating Consolidated CDA
Several proposals have come forward to augment HL7 Consolidated CDA with additional templates. The Structured Documents Work Group has taken the position that new templates supporting long term care will be added in an addendum rather than integrated into a new release of the spec. I think this position needs to be reconsidered both as a general course and for the specific material. Here’s why.
Read MoreHIMSS EHR Association: Health Story Project & HL7 C-CDA
Bob Dolin, MD and Liora Alschuler speak to the HIMSS EHR Association about how use of HL7 Consolidated CDA supports the Health Story approach and helps meet meaningful use requirements.
Read MoreAt Your Service!
We are taking advantage of our upcoming meeting with 25,000 of our closest associates — we will show greenCDA technology in the Health Story portion of the HIMSS12 Interoperability Showcase, Hall G, #11000.
Read MoregreenData BIG Data
Lantana Group published this white paper for HIMSS12, highlighting how the Lantana Trifolia Toolkit uses the greenCDA methodology to open up the flow of Big Data within the enterprise and onto our health…
Read MoreHow green is greenCDA?
The answer is, “potentially, pretty darn green.” I was invited to speak at the 2nd Annual Global Healthcare Conference where the topic is the greening of healthcare – reducing the environmental impact of care delivery in the US and around the world…
Read More2nd Annual Global Healthcare Conference: The Green Revolution in Health Information Technology
Uncovers environmental impact of electronic health records and a strong tie to standards in the incentive to reduce visits.
Read MoreAcademy V: Around the Corner and Out on the West Coast
Hard to believe that we are already going into our fifth edition of the CDA Academy, the premier place to learn, absorb, ponder and explore everything related to the core specification behind Meaningful Use of electronic health records and all types of clinical information exchange.
Read MoreLantana is Growing
We are looking for a qualified operations manager, clinical information analyst, terminology analyst and software qa engineer…
Read MoreAcademy IV: Almost here…
The source for comprehensive training in the core specifications required for Meaningful Use, the CDA Academy, comes around again in Academy IV, now enhanced with a track for policy makers and planners.
Read MoreDirection Needed
Health Story recently participated in an advocacy day on Capitol Hill. I helped prepare a broadsheet, and it came to mind when I was asked (again) yesterday about recognition for the Consolidation Project effort.
Read MoreThat Was the Year That Was
We are just wrapping up our fifth annual Lantana retreat here at the sunny, frigid and idyllic C.O.D. Ranch in Oracle, AZ. Looking back, it’s been quite a year for us and for the industry.
Read MoreLaunch of the “HL7/IHE Health Story Consolidation Project under the ONC S&I Framework”
If the official title of the Consolidation Project is looongg, that is in part why it is exciting – there are many hands involved here, and we expect to make light work of a number of important tasks.
Read MoreWelcome to the Lantana Consulting Group Blog!
Moving into our beautiful new site is like getting a new home. It’s a great opportunity to see ourselves in a new light.
Read MoreMt. Washington Revisited
This paper examines changes in the health care industry since a contrarian proposal was submitted to CMS in January 2005. That proposal focused on CMS exercising its commercial power as…
Read MoreCDA4CDT: Presentation to the PEHRC
Clinical Document Architecture for Common Document Types: Presentation to the Physician’s EHR Collaborative providing background on the base standard (CDA) and the CDA4CDT project and ways that the practice community…
Read MoreHL7 Standards and their Application: Indexing Structured Product Labeling: Clinical and Practical Approaches Using Data Elements in SPL
Presentation to the Drug Information Association providing context and background on the work of HL7. Theme of the presentation is “it’s all about my Mother” (actually, about the patient). May…
Read MorePHR by CDA: Creating Personal Health Records with the Clinical Document Architecture
Presentation given to the Microsoft Health Users Group (MS-HUG), Redmond, Washington, August, 2006
Read MoreInternational Healthcare Interoperabilty Conference (7th HL7 International Affiliates Conference), Cologne, Germany, August, 2006
Keynote address given to the HL7 International Affiliates: CDA Around the World (or “The World According to CDA”)
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