Lantana Projects
Be Antibiotics Aware with the NHSN Antimicrobial Use and Resistance Module
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…
Read MoreLantana Blood Heroes
According to the American Red Cross, someone in the U.S. needs a blood transfusion every two seconds. In January 2022, the American Red Cross declared the first ever blood crisis.…
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 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 MoreU.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week: Moving Forward from COVID-19
Each year, we observe U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (USAAW) and honor Lantana’s continued partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This year again we provide an update on…
Read MoreCelebrating Infection Prevention Week: What is an Infection Preventionist?
Often dubbed (somewhat mockingly, I would say) the “hand hygiene police,” Infection Preventionists (IPs) are tasked with a broad set of responsibilities aimed at preventing and controlling infections within healthcare…
Read MoreEarth Day 2021: Lantana Partners with My Green Doctor
Lantana is celebrating Earth Day 2021 by announcing a new partnership with My Green Doctor, an environmental sustainability program for healthcare practices. Our greenLantana initiative works on improving the long-term…
Read MoreU.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week: Using the NHSN AUR Module to Support Antibiotic Stewardship
In honor of U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (USAAW) and Lantana’s continued partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), we provide an update on the nation’s primary system…
Read MoreU.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week: An Update on the Antimicrobial Use Option
U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (USAAW) raises awareness about appropriate antimicrobial use and the threat of antimicrobial resistance. More than 2.8 million antimicrobial-resistant infections occur in the United States each year,…
Read MorePleasant surprise with open-source development
This is a story of how a health IT guy goes looking for an easier way of doing a tedious task, can’t find that easier way anywhere, ends up building…
Read MoreReporting Into the Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (AUR) Module
Hospitals report and analyze AUR data via the AUR Module. The AUR Module covers two reporting options, one for antimicrobial use (AU) and one for antimicrobial resistance (AR). Facilities can participate in one (just AU or just AR) or both (AU and AR) at any given time.
Read MoreWhat is AUR and Why Do We Care?
AUR is more than an airport code for a commune in southern France (Aurillac, if you are curious). AUR is an important facet of public health. Using the Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (AUR) reporting module, hospitals can report and analyze antimicrobial use and/or resistance data.
Read MoreNotes from the Field
Recently a team of Lantana clinical analysts had the opportunity to go out in the field. As part of a national field test related to electronic reporting from clinical systems, our team was instrumental in providing hands-on training through site visits, collecting and assessing data on approximately 150 data elements, conducting focus groups, and providing feedback to the client.
Read MoreLantana Selects Cool Effect Projects to Offset Carbon Emissions
How does a distributed company in the health information technology industry offset emissions from business travel? Set criteria, choose a vendor, and ask the staff to vote!
Read MoreCarbon Offsets for Lantana Business Travel—Where to Put Our Money?
Lantana’s business travel is a major source of our corporate greenhouse gasses emissions that we can mitigate by buying carbon offsets. How do we choose where to put our money?
Read MoreNew Public CDA Stylesheet
Lantana is happy to announce the release of a new public CDA Stylesheet, an open-source renderer for CDA documents. The stylesheet transforms the XML of a CDA document into a webpage that can be viewed in a browser or other XSLT-compatible application.
Read MoreTrifolia Open Source Update
Lantana is happy to announce the release of Trifolia 4.1, the second release as open source code. With the initial release, we announced plans to improve installation, documentation, to pre-load data, and to simplify authentication. We have made progress on all of these.
Read MoreTrifolia 4.0.0 Release Notes
This is the second major open source release of Trifolia. The update simplifies the installation process for users who wish to install Trifolia on their own systems, and improves support for the latest release of FHIR. It also includes bug fixes for users in China who were unable to log in due to the use of Google Captcha. Finally, it allows users to import data from other Trifolia installations, making it easier to share data between instances of Trifolia.
Read MoreWhen You Have to Travel for Work, Invest in Carbon Offsets
Lantana is a distributed company that does not manufacture products. We do not have corporate offices to retrofit for energy efficiency, so what can our business do to reduce its impact on the planet? One important option is to address our greenhouse gas emissions from business travel.
Read MoregreenLantana: The Case Against Commuting
One of the many benefits of a distributed environment is flexibility. At Lantana Consulting Group, employees establish productive work environments wherever Wi-Fi can reach. Rather than joining millions of…
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