HIT Industry
Axe the Fax: Save Money and Lower Your Climate Footprint
April Compingbutra contributed this piece to MyGreenDoctor about ditching the fax machine in medical practices to save money and the planet. Click here to read.
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 MoreIncreasing Voluntary Public Health Reporting to the NHSN Antimicrobial Use Option
Heather Dubrendris and Amy Webb were authors on an abstract submitted to SHEA for the cancelled 2020 Decennial Conference. The abstract details the efforts from CDC’s NHSN to raise awareness…
Read MoreA Year of Stories
Lantana’s Clinical Advisory Council was published on American Nurses Association’s A Year of Stories with their story on how Nurse Informaticists contribute to the fight against COVID-19.
Read MoreEHR-Compatible Pharmacist Care Plan Standard Opens the Door to Cross-Setting Data Exchange
Lantana Consulting Group and Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC) developed an electronic document standard for pharmacist care plans—the HL7 Pharmacist Care Plan (PhCP). The project was launched by a…
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…
Read MoreDevelopment, implementation, and initial evaluation of a foundational open interoperability standard for oncology treatment planning and summarization, JAMIA January 2015
Authors: Jeremy L. Warner, Suzanne E. Maddux, Kevin S. Hughes, John C. Krauss, Peter Paul Yu, Lawrence N. Shulman, Deborah K. Mayer, Mike Hogarth , Mark Shafarman , Allison Stover Fiscalini,…
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…
Read MoreSetting the Standard: EHR Quality Reporting Rises in Prominence Due to Meaningful Use
In this article, published in the January 2014 Journal of AHIMA, thought leaders from Lantana Consulting Group and HHS’s Centers for Medicaid & Medicare (CMS) discuss the industry mandate to measure…
Read MoreSMARTPlatforms.org: “C-CDA Endoscopy, or Improving Clinical Document Exchange” by David Kreda and Joshua Mandel
In 2014, the industry will see wide-scale production and exchange of Consolidated CDA documents among healthcare providers. Indeed, live production of C-CDAs is already underway for anyone using a Meaningful…
Read More2013 WEDI Report
Lantana President & CEO, Liora Alschuler contributed to the 2013 WEDI Report as a Work Group Co Chair. The objective is to provide a roadmap for industry action by focusing…
Read MoregreenData BIG Data
Lantana Group published this white paper for HIMSS12, highlighting how the Lantana Trifolia Toolkit uses the greenCDA methodology to open up the flow of Big Data within the enterprise and onto our health…
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…
Read MoreMt. Washington Revisited
This paper examines changes in the health care industry since a contrarian proposal was submitted to CMS in January 2005. That proposal focused on CMS exercising its commercial power as…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Read MoreModernHealthcare.com: “HL7’s first ballot in expected series under way” by Joe Conn
“Implementation guides for documents containing ‘history and physical reports’ were submitted Monday to Ann Arbor, Mich.-based HL7. It is the first ballot in what is expected to be a series…
Read MoreMt. Washington Vision: A Response to ONCHIT’s Request for Information
The Mt. Washington Vision was created in response to the ONCHIT RFI.
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