Posts by Lynn Perrine
The Nurses of Lantana
The American Nurses Association has chosen “Nurses Make the Difference” as this year’s Nurses Month theme to honor the compassion and care that nurses provide in all healthcare settings. While the nurses at Lantana no longer practice bedside care, our work remains patient-centered by directly supporting both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Data…
Read MoreNational Nurses Month 2023: Transforming Healthcare Through Digital Quality Measures
Happy Nurses Month 2023! This week’s focus is Recognition. According to the American Nurses Association, it is a way to “honor the work of nurses who lead, excel, and innovate in our healthcare systems and our communities, making them vital to transforming the future of healthcare.” Nurses have always played a key role in clinical…
Read MoreJoint Commission’s Pioneers in Quality: Expert to Expert Series
Wellness in the Workplace – The Social Dimension
Previous Wellness in the Workplace blogs covered the physical dimension1 of wellness. Today’s blog covers the social dimension in a virtual environment. Social wellness refers to cultivating relationships and connecting with others. In a distributed company like Lantana, this can be challenging since we are physically separated from our coworkers. As the map shows, our staff are…
Read MoreNursing Informatics Series: Lynn’s Journey
Today, as a Senior Nurse Informaticist at Lantana, I am part of a team of clinical, program and policy analysts, working with IT engineers to develop standards-based solutions permitting interoperable—platform independent—exchange of health information. Twenty-five years ago, I was a young nurse starting out—just look at me here at my “capping and pinning” ceremony! Here…
Read MoreWellness in the Workplace – Powerlifting
How do you begin your day? If you’re like Crystal Kallem, Lantana’s Executive Director of Analysis and Policy, you begin with an intense weight lifting session.
Read MoreWellness in the Workplace
In honor of National Wellness Week, we are kicking off our Wellness in the Workplace series. Over the next few months, you can read about Lantana’s spin on some of these dimensions of wellness. In this post, we focus on how Lantana supports physical wellness.
Read MoreNotes from the Field
Recently a team of Lantana clinical analysts had the opportunity to go out in the field. As part of a national field test related to electronic reporting from clinical systems, our team was instrumental in providing hands-on training through site visits, collecting and assessing data on approximately 150 data elements, conducting focus groups, and providing feedback to the client.
Read MoreIMPACT, Standards and Interoperability: The Road Ahead
Lantana’s Zabrina Gonzaga and Lynn Perrine presented “IMPACT, Standards and Interoperability: The Road Ahead” on Tuesday, August 25 as part of the McKnight’s Media Super Tuesday webinar series which focuses on technology in the Long Term and Post Acute Care setting.
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