Trends, Comments, & Opinions
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 MoreNational Healthcare Safety Network Standardized Antimicrobial Administration Ratios (SAARs): A Progress Report and Risk Modeling Update Using 2017 Data
The Standardized Antimicrobial Administration Ratio (SAAR) is a risk-adjusted metric of antimicrobial use (AU) developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2015 as a tool for hospital antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) to track and compare AU with a national benchmark. In 2018, CDC updated the SAAR by expanding the locations and…
Read MoreUS 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 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 MoreTransfusion‐associated adverse events and implementation of blood safety measures ‐ findings from the 2017 National Blood Collection and Utilization Survey
Matt Sapiano is second author on this paper, which describes the rate of transfusion‐associated adverse events and the implementation of specific blood safety measures.”
Read MoreCircumstances Involved in Unsupervised Solid Dose Medication Exposures among Young Children
Mathew R.P. Sapiano, PhD contributed to this new study from CDC, Emory and 5 poison centers which found that when young children ingested prescription pills, over half the time the pills had been removed from original packaging by an adult.
Read MoreNurse Informaticist Consultants are Nurses Too!
Lantana’s Clinical Advisory Council (CAC) had to opportunity to author a Nursing Vignette for National Nurses’ Week featured on the HIMSS website. Click below to read the piece on www.himss.org.
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 the market master in the purchase of healthcare in the U.S. to catalyze the emergence of a commercial heath record banking industry as an alternative…
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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