Lantana Group Blog

Kristin Schrock, Technical Writer

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…

Rick Geimer talked FHIR profiling with Trifolia-on-FHIR earlier this month. His presentation supported the overall topic of FHIR profiling solutions, and described and demonstrated Trifolia-on-FHIR’s features.

Lantana is working with partners to: Develop a standard for exchange of blood product genotyping and phenotyping information for BECS and BBLIS incorporation Expand and convene a group of key stakeholders to launch this work and support it with domain expertise Leverage the momentum of the core group and standards development project to procure funding…

This talk will presented a roadmap for a blended, heterogenous environment that provides both growth and continuity and expands the utility of current information systems. Rick Geimer and Don Lee described the foundation for a path forward and their experience driving down that path supporting care planning, public health, and information exchange.

Rick Geimer presented on FHIR Documents at FHIR Dev Days. The event was attended by 587 participants in 43 countries.

Zabrina Gonzaga and David deRoode presented at the Oral Health Information Technology Virtual Convening during the Oral Health Interoperability and Care Coordination session on November 17th. This event focused on population health management and value-based care through dental health information innovations.

Our CMS Hospital Quality Initiatives Public Reporting Support Contract team (Chris Truman, Larissa Mennen, and Ruby Nash) were invited to present a 15-20 minute overview of the project for the MIDS c3 Forum. The team presented a program overview (including history of this task order), task order purpose and scope, primary tasks and deliverable, upcoming…

Rick Geimer, Chief Innovation Officer, presented an overview of dual FHIR/CDA implementation guide development, including when to develop dual IGs, requirements, development challenges, and the dual IG HL7 ballot process.

Rick Geimer led the Transactions to Transformation Session at the WEDI Winter Conference. The session began with an exercise on creating patient demographics using the FHIR API, explained how X12 and FHIR work together, and shared an overview of various industry IGs including Argonaut, US Core and Da Vinci.

Zabrina Gonzaga and Marla Throckmorton presented this poster at the Summer Institute of Nursing Informatics (SINI) to provide an overview of electronic care plan standards, strategies to identify clinically-relevant and meaningful concepts for exchange, identify the benefits of adoption, and suggest how to increase implementation and use. Electronic care plans can improve efficiency and resolve…

Amy Webb presented on NHSN Antimicrobial Use Option – Implementation, Validation & Analysis at the APIC 2019 Annual Conference. The presentation described the required data elements for submission into the NHSN AU Option, identified examples of how to validate AU data before and after submission to NHSN, and outlined the AU Option analysis reports.

Laura Blum presented Lessons Learned from Validation of Electronically-Submitted National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Antimicrobial Use (AU) Option Data at 2019 Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Annual Conference in Raleigh, NC. Hospital participation in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Antimicrobial Use (AU) surveillance increased exponentially…

The Lantana Team presented two sessions at the NHSN Annual Training in March 2019. Wendy Wise, MPH, PMP presented on NHSN Antimicrobial Use Option reporting and analysis and Amy Webb, MPH, CHES presented on and Antimicrobial Resistance Option reporting and analysis.

Liora Alschuler and Rick Geimer collaborated on a webinar for HATA focusing on the potential role of practice and document management systems in orchestrating standard electronic attachments, per the anticipated CMS NPRM.

KP Sethi, Director of Information Analysis & Technology, presented on the future of quality measurement to the HL7 community at HIMSS 2019.

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.

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

Describes the C-CDA on FHIR project, it’s relationship to US Core and where it fits into a transitional roadmap.

In the presentation, Rick Geimer describes how LOINC codes support the request for additional information and the classification and management of that information.

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.