Posts by Lantana Group Editor
Nursing Informatics Series: Marla’s Journey
Over the past 25 years, my nursing journey has taken me down different professional paths. At each crossroad in my career, I used the Servant Leadership philosophy as my compass to guide my journey. During my master’s program in nursing, I read Servant Leadership in Nursing by Mary Elizabeth O’Brien. I was finally able to put a…
Read MorePredictable Reporting: 13 sites, 7 EHRs, 65 measures submitted to State Medicaid
A state HIE needed to find the most efficient path to meet quality reporting targets where each provider site had data that matched up differently against potential target measures. Lantana determined the shortest pathway to predictable, reliable reporting for each site. Our clinical analysts schematized the requirements across the set of potential measures, then assessed…
Read MorePredictable Reporting: Community Pharmacists as Care Team Members within the Medical Neighborhood
Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC), the primary care case management program for NC Medicaid, found that it needed consistent, structured, and coded data from its community pharmacy partners in the Community Pharmacy Enhanced Services Network (CPESN) in order to support quality metrics. During the initial years of CPESN pharmacy partnerships, community pharmacy encounters with…
Read MoreImproving Hospital Quality and Accountability through Public Reporting
Collecting and analyzing quality of care and payment data is central to the shift from volume to value-based care. Reporting the results publicly is essential to the government’s mission to put the consumer at the center of this transformation. Lantana has provided key services at each stage of the data collection, analysis, and reporting process.…
Read MoreImproving Public Health through Public Reporting
In 2007, as the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) was gearing up to collect information on healthcare associated infections (HAIs), they needed a mechanism to pull information captured in local infection control applications and EHRs without redundant data entry. The prevalent standards for data sharing could not easily model the reports and were not compatible…
Read MoreLantana Releases Open-Source Trifolia-On-FHIR Tool
January 18, 2019 – Lantana Consulting Group, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of Trifolia-on-FHIR, a new tool for authoring and publishing HL7® FHIR® implementation guides (IGs) and one of the first FHIR tools to support the latest release (FHIR R4/STU3).
Read More2018 ID Week Conference
Amy Webb, MPH, CHES presented a poster comparing the first cohort of NHSN Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (AUR) Module reporting facilities to non-AUR reporting facilities at the 2018 ID Week Conference in October 2018.
Read MoreHL7 Fall WGM: C-CDA on FHIR
This comprehensive tutorial covers FHIR documents; C-CDA on FHIR and US Core; Converting, managing, and validating FHIR documents; and Current/Future Work and Resources.
Read MoreLantana Awarded Hospital Quality Initiatives Support Contract
September 13, 2018 – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded Lantana Consulting Group a task order to continue its support of publicly available quality of care information on the Hospital Compare quality rating website.
Read MoreLantana Awarded Measure & Instrument Development and Support (MIDS) Umbrella Contract
August 24, 2018 – CMS awarded Lantana Consulting Group an umbrella contract to support quality improvement programs.
Read MoreIntroduction to Consolidated CDA(C-CDA)
In this tutorial, Rick Geimer covers the history and need for the Consolidated CDA guide; Use cases for each document type; How to read and understand the guide; Similarities and differences with past work; and Available tools and resources
Read MoreHL7 Webinar: C-CDA on FHIR
In this tutorial, Rick Geimer covers CDA, C-CDA, and FHIR documents; discusses the relationship between C-CDA-on-FHIR and the US Core; conversion between formats; and presented a live walk-through of samples and conversions.
Read MoreLantana Names Dan Andersen as Program Director
Lantana Consulting Group is pleased to announce that Dan Andersen, PhD, MS, MPH has joined the firm as Program Director. He brings experience in public health, long term care, public reporting, and quality measurement including work experience at CMS and IMPAQ.
Read MoreHL7 FHIR Applications Roundtable
Eric Parapini and KP Sethi presented Lantana’s work under the ONC HIP Grant to develop dual CDA and FHIR IGs for the Pharmacist Care plan and related transforms. The FHIR Applications Roundtable features numerous short form presentations and demos from providers, vendors, academic institutions, start-ups, and others showcasing FHIR-based solutions in the development or implementation stages.
Read MoreLantana Awarded National Healthcare Safety Network IDIQ Contract & Task Orders
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded Lantana Consulting Group a five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract and two task orders to support standards-based electronic reporting of healthcare associated infections to the National Healthcare Safety Network.
Read MoreFHIR CDA Position Statement and Roadmap
This position statement addresses the relationship between HL7’s Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) product line and the Fast Health Interoperability Resource (FHIR) product line. It was prepared jointly by Lantana Consulting Group—a recognized leader in the CDA community—and Grahame Grieve, Health Intersections, the FHIR project lead. This statement is not official policy. It is our hope…
Read MoreAre Meaningful Use Stage 2 certified EHRs ready for interoperability? Findings from the SMART C-CDA Collaborative
Upgrades to electronic health record (EHR) systems scheduled to be introduced in the USA in 2014 will advance document interoperability between care providers. Specifically, the second stage of the federal incentive program for EHR adoption, known as Meaningful Use, requires use of the Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) for document exchange. In an effort to…
Read MoreMaking use of electronic data: The National Healthcare Safety Network eSurveillance Initiative
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), is developing a standard framework to support the electronic submission of health care-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial use and resistance (AUR). The article outlines three key challenges to collecting this data electronically and shares background and success stories on…
Read MoreAn Electronic Health Record Based on Structured Narrative
A JAMIA article on work done at New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center on structured narrative. We think this article really speaks to the value of the full patient record and how narrative documents complement the EHR. A great read!
Read MoreAPIC Announces New CDC Approach to HAI Reporting using CDA
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…is developing a standards-based solution for transmission of health care-associated infection (HAI) data from existing commercial software systems to the agency’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN). … CDC’s pilot project of the new solution in July and August, 2007 was the first field test of the Health Level…
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