Posts by Lantana Consulting Group
Adapting 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, was available virtually throughout the conference with opportunity for Q and A.
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, such as the Apple Health Records API, CMS Blue Button 2.0, Sync for Science and more – and learn how providers can leverage them for…
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 collaborating on a project to demonstrate implementation readiness for end-to-end automation of hospital pandemic reporting from the Yale-New Haven Health to NHSN.
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 from the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).
Read MoreDIG for Change: A Year of Diversity and Inclusion
Lantana 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
Making 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 to use it to assess quality at the hospital level. The state of Maryland had publicly reported data which they need to consolidate for a…
Read MoreNational Healthcare Safety Network Standardized Antimicrobial Administration Ratios (SAARs): A Progress Report and Risk Modeling Update Using 2017 Data
US 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 MoreWhat is One Thing We Can Do to Improve the Use of Health Information?
What is one thing we can do to improve the use of health information? Our team weighs in.
Read MoreNon-COVID Patient Perspectives on Hospitalization During the COVID-19 Era
Navigating the healthcare system can be overwhelming during the best of times, but it’s even more challenging during a public health crisis. Seeing the impact on the news and reading about it are different than experiencing it. These are our stories of medical emergencies during the coronavirus crisis. Krisden’s experience – Patient Perspective As the…
Read MoreA Year of Stories
MIDS c3 Forum
Transfusion‐associated adverse events and implementation of blood safety measures ‐ findings from the 2017 National Blood Collection and Utilization Survey
Circumstances Involved in Unsupervised Solid Dose Medication Exposures among Young Children
A California Campaign for AUR Reporting
Key Outcomes: Tools and Methods Used:
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