Posts by Lantana Consulting Group
Developing a FHIR Implementation Guide for Extended RBC Phenotyping Information
John Spinosa attended the Pathology Informatics Summit and gave a presentation entitled Exchanging Extended RBC Phenotyping and Genotyping Information: HL7 FHIR Implementation Guide Status.
Read MoreToward Health Equity in Transfusion Medicine
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…
Read MoreNational Public Health Week is April 4 – 10: “Public Health is Where You Are”
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…
Read More2021 Annual Retreat: Two Perspectives
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…
Read MoreSurveillance of COVID-19 Vaccination in Nursing Homes, United States, December 2020–July 2021
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…
Read MoreNational Healthcare Safety Network 2018 Baseline Neonatal Standardized Antimicrobial Administration Ratios
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…
Read MoreMaternal Health Day of Action: Getting the Information Needed to Drive Change
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…
Read MoreOctober is American Pharmacists Month: What are Lantana Pharmacists Up To?
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…
Read MoreAdapting during a Global Pandemic: Capturing Remdesivir in the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Antimicrobial Use Option
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,…
Read MoreBuilding on the FHIR Framework Toward Advanced Interoperability Goals
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,…
Read MoreExchange of Blood Product Information: An Initiative to Develop an HL7 FHIR® Standard
Lantana is initiating and looking for supporting partners to develop a standard for exchange of blood banking genotyping and phenotyping information.
Read MoreCDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network and Yale New Haven Health/Yale Center for Medical Informatics to Collaborate on Automated Hospital Reporting
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…
Read MoreLantana Awarded National Institutes of Health Contract
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).
Read MoreImpact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on US Hospitals and Patients, April–July 2020
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…
Read MoreDIG for Change: A Year of Diversity and Inclusion
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…
Read MoreLantana Awarded General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule
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.
Read MoreIncreasing Voluntary Public Health Reporting to the NHSN Antimicrobial Use Option
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…
Read MoreMaking Data Useful: A Statewide Consolidated Dataset
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…
Read MoreNational Healthcare Safety Network Standardized Antimicrobial Administration Ratios (SAARs): A Progress Report and Risk Modeling Update Using 2017 Data
The Standardized Antimicrobial Administration Ratio (SAAR) is a risk-adjusted metric of antimicrobial use (AU) developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2015 as a tool for…
Read MoreUS Hydroxychloroquine, Chloroquine, and Azithromycin Outpatient Prescription Trends, October 2019 Through March 2020
Nadine Shehab, Chief Scientist, co-authored this CDC report which quantifies changes in outpatient prescriptions of hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine, and azithromycin during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read More