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Posts by Lantana Consulting Group

Lantana Consulting Group, Inc. Completes Sale of the Company to Employee Stock Ownership Plan and Leadership Transition

By Lantana Consulting Group | January 3, 2023

Lantana Consulting Group, Inc. (Lantana) is pleased to announce the sale of the company to its employees via an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), becoming 100% employee owned. Liora Alschuler,…

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Be Antibiotics Aware with the NHSN Antimicrobial Use and Resistance Module

By Lantana Consulting Group | December 5, 2022

In August 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule for FY 2023 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System for Acute Care Hospitals and Long-term…

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Developing a FHIR Implementation Guide for Extended RBC Phenotyping Information

By Lantana Consulting Group | May 11, 2022

John Spinosa attended the Pathology Informatics Summit and gave a presentation entitled Exchanging Extended RBC Phenotyping and Genotyping Information: HL7 FHIR Implementation Guide Status.

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Toward Health Equity in Transfusion Medicine

By Lantana Consulting Group | April 4, 2022

One of the most significant risks transfusion patients face is an adverse reaction to blood products such as whole blood, red blood cells (RBC), platelets, and plasma. A number of…

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National Public Health Week is April 4 – 10: “Public Health is Where You Are”

By Lantana Consulting Group | March 31, 2022

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many people have a better understanding of the concept of public health compared to several years ago. Public health has become highly politicized over the…

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2021 Annual Retreat: Two Perspectives

By Lantana Consulting Group | February 28, 2022

Just when we thought our Annual Retreat couldn’t look any different (read about last year’s virtual retreat here), we introduced the first hybrid retreat, an in-person and virtual congregation of…

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Surveillance of COVID-19 Vaccination in Nursing Homes, United States, December 2020–July 2021

By Lantana Consulting Group | February 8, 2022

Monitoring COVID-19 vaccination coverage among nursing home residents and staff is important to ensure high coverage rates and guide patient-safety policies. COVID-19 vaccination coverage in nursing homes is studied. Heather…

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National Healthcare Safety Network 2018 Baseline Neonatal Standardized Antimicrobial Administration Ratios

By Lantana Consulting Group | January 25, 2022

In 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed neonatal-specific (Standardized Antimicrobial Administration Ratios SAARs), a set of risk-adjusted antimicrobial use metrics that hospitals participating in the National Healthcare…

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Maternal Health Day of Action: Getting the Information Needed to Drive Change

By Lantana Consulting Group | December 20, 2021

Women in the United States die before, during, and after childbirth at a higher rate than any other developed nation in the world—a sobering fact highlighted by Vice President Kamala…

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October is American Pharmacists Month: What are Lantana Pharmacists Up To?

By Lantana Consulting Group | October 29, 2021

The Lantana pharmacists have been busy on work beyond the pharmacy, from optimizing how we get medication data out of electronic health records (EHRs) to supporting nursing home reporting of…

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Adapting during a Global Pandemic: Capturing Remdesivir in the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Antimicrobial Use Option

By Lantana Consulting Group | July 27, 2021

Heather Dubrendris presented a poster at this year’s virtual CSTE conference. The poster, Adapting during a Global Pandemic: Capturing Remdesivir in the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Antimicrobial Use Option,…

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Building on the FHIR Framework Toward Advanced Interoperability Goals

By Lantana Consulting Group | July 14, 2021

As part of a HIMSS Education Webinar, Liora Alschuler and Rick Geimer, along with Hans Buitendijk of Cerner, explore the evolving applications of SMART on FHIR and other open APIs,…

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Exchange of Blood Product Information: An Initiative to Develop an HL7 FHIR® Standard

By Lantana Consulting Group | May 11, 2021

Lantana is initiating and looking for supporting partners to develop a standard for exchange of blood banking genotyping and phenotyping information.

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CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network and Yale New Haven Health/Yale Center for Medical Informatics to Collaborate on Automated Hospital Reporting

By Lantana Consulting Group | April 27, 2021

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) surveillance system and Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS)/Yale Center for Medical Informatics today announced that they are…

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Lantana Awarded National Institutes of Health Contract

By Lantana Consulting Group | April 26, 2021

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded Lantana Consulting Group a two-year contract working with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

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Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on US Hospitals and Patients, April–July 2020

By Lantana Consulting Group | March 16, 2021

Mathew Sapiano, Erin O’Leary, and Agasha Amor co-authored an article which presents time-series estimates of the critical hospital capacity indicators from April 1 to July 14, 2020 based on data…

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DIG for Change: A Year of Diversity and Inclusion

By Lantana Consulting Group | February 25, 2021

Following our annual retreat in November 2019, Lantana created the Diversity and Inclusion Group (DIG) to promote policy changes and encourage diversity and inclusion company wide. We came up with…

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Lantana Awarded General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule

By Lantana Consulting Group | December 7, 2020

The General Services Administration (GSA) awarded Lantana Consulting Group a Multiple Award Schedule with Special Item Number (SIN) 54151HEAL – the consolidated solicitation SIN for Health Information Technology Services.

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Increasing Voluntary Public Health Reporting to the NHSN Antimicrobial Use Option

By Lantana Consulting Group | November 6, 2020

Heather Dubrendris and Amy Webb were authors on an abstract submitted to SHEA for the cancelled 2020 Decennial Conference. The abstract details the efforts from CDC’s NHSN to raise awareness…

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Making Data Useful: A Statewide Consolidated Dataset

By Lantana Consulting Group | October 20, 2020

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) collects data from hospitals and other healthcare facilities nationwide which results in a good problem—a wealth of information without an effective way…

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