Posts by Lantana Group Editor
Introduction to HIMSS Health Story Project
During the week of the 2013 85th AHIMA Convention and Exhibit, Crystal Kallem presented, “Introduction to HIMSS Health Story Project,” teaching on the Project and its importance to your health, industry vendors, payers, research analysts, doctors and clinicians.
Read MoreLantana Webinar: Role of Standards in Quality Measurement
Crystal Kallem presents the latest on the evolving interoperability standards for quality reporting. This session is a preview of the content available during Lantana’s CDA Academy workshops.
Read MoreSurrogate EHR Environment (SEE) Tool
Mike Tushan and John Baker presented SEE, which helps providers of long term/post acute care patients (LTPAC) gain a centralized view of patient information to deliver better care. A simple, elegant Web tool, SEE leverages HL7 CDA for meeting Meaningful Use of exchange documents. It gives providers a way easily to access, import, capture, and send patient health…
Read MoreNAACCR 2013: Standard Representation of Genomic Information
HIMSS Virtual Session with M*Modal: Closed-Loop Clinical Documentation – An Alternative Approach to Achieving Meaningful Use of EHRs
This online HIMSS seminar addresses Meaningful Use compliance and increasing physician adoption of EHRs through better clinical documentation workflows.
Read MoreHarvard School of Public Health, Leadership Strategies for Information Technology in Health Care: Health IT Standards for Effective Use and Innovation
This presentation addresses the value of HIT standards to drive data reuse for decision support, quality reporting, and more. Learn about required standards for MU and how best to apply them for maximum benefit.
Read MoreHL7 Meaningful Use Stage 2: QRDA
This webinar provides an introduction to Quality Reporting Document Architecture – QRDA, the CDA-based standard for reporting patient quality data for one or more quality measures. Get the big picture on QRDAs, how to create them, and essential helpful tools for QRDAs.
Read MoreHIMSS13: The Road to Meaningful Use: An Alternate View
This HIMSS13 Interoperability Showcase session provides an overview of the Health Story Project approach to Meaningful Use – “big data, incrementally structured.”
Read MoreHIMSS13: Streamline Quality Measurement Reporting to Meet State and Federal Requirements
Dan Pollock, MD (CDC) and Bob Dolin, MD (Lantana) discuss how the National Healthcare Safety Network is applying national standards and an intelligent infrastructure for aggregating, retrieving and distributing information for quality measurement and surveillance of healthcare associated infections.
Read MoreAMIA 2012: End-to-End Quality Reporting from Electronic Health Records
Quality reporting landscape and specifications.
Read MoreAmericanEHR: Making Standards Clinically Relevant
An 8 minute podcast interview with Bob Dolin, MD.
Read MoreEnd-to-End Quality Reporting
Bob Dolin, MD presents the latest on the evolving national interoperability standards for quality reporting.
Read MoreHL7 Ambassador Series: CDA and CCD
An overview of the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture Release 2.0 (CDA) and the Continuity of Care Document (CCD) standards.
Read MoreHIMSS11: greenCDA and greenCCD
Introduces greenCDA – a strategy that simplifies the creation and processing of a particular CDA implementation guide
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 MoreIHIC 2009: CDA Development using Templates
Introduces CDA design methods centered on templates, allowing for reusable, consistent and timely development
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…
Read MoreQuality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Initiative Phase I Final Report
The Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) initiative results from a private collaboration sponsored by the Alliance for Pediatric Quality (Alliance), a joint effort of the American Academy of Pediatrics, The American Board of Pediatrics, Child Health Corporation of America, and the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions. Its goal is to develop an…
Read MoreImplementing Single Source: The STARBRITE Proof-of-Concept Study
The “Single Source” concept applies the write-once, use-many principle to data gathering for clinical trials using CDA as the key to interoperability in this case study. The article reports on a pilot implementation done at the Duke Clinical Research Institute that radically streamlined the data-gathering process by eliminating redundant data entry. On a side note,…
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