HIT Industry
WEDI: Standards for Electronic Attachments
Rick Geimer presented an overview of the interoperability standards proposed for HIPAA-compliant national electronic attachments.
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Eric Parapini and KP Sethi presented Lantana’s work under the ONC HIP Grant to develop dual CDA and FHIR IGs for the Pharmacist Care plan and related transforms. The FHIR Applications Roundtable features numerous short form presentations and demos from providers, vendors, academic institutions, start-ups, and others showcasing FHIR-based solutions in the development or implementation stages.
Read MoreWEDI-Con 2017
Rick Geimer presented “Attachment Payloads: A Detailed View into HL7 C-CDA for Attachments.” Rick demonstrated how to create a CDA document from scanned date and provided a detailed look at crafting HL7 Consolidated CDA documents based on attachments guidelines.
Read MoreONC 2017 Annual Meeting
Rick Geimer presented an overview of Lantana’s ONC-HIP project. Lantana’s project team created Pharmacist Care Plan document types in CDA and FHIR and bi-directional transforms. The ONC Annual Meeting convenes key stakeholders across the public and private sector. Attendees discuss the seamless and secure flow of health information to enhance care and improve health, science, and research.
Read MoreHL7 2017 FHIR Developer Days
FHIR Developer Days is the largest HL7 FHIR event in the world. The three-day event covers some 50 tutorials and keynotes, numerous hands-on sessions guided by experts, and networking opportunities. Rick Geimer led the FHIR Documents track.
Read MoreThe Changing Landscape of Quality Standards
On November 8, Lantana’s Kanwarpreet Sethi hosted a one-hour webinar on The Changing Landscape of Quality Standards. The webinar introduced the new standards in development for Clinical Quality Measurement as part of the Clinical Quality Framework S&I initiative. The slideshow explains the fundamentals of these standards; their design; how they fit within the current landscape of quality reporting;…
Read MoreHL7 FHIR Applications Roundtable Showcase
On July 27-28, 2016, Health Level Seven (HL7) convened the first ever roundtable focused on state of the art in application development for the emerging Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (FHIR) standard. Lantana’s CEO Liora Alschuler and CTO Rick Geimer attended. Rick gave two of the presentations featured.
Read MoreFHIR Profiling in Trifolia Tutorial
In this tutorial, Rick Geimer and Sean McIlvenna explain how to create and modify Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) profiles using the new functionality in the Trifolia template database. Trifolia is a web-based tool with over 500 users searching, creating, and modifying Clinical Data Architecture (CDA) templates and implementation guides. The latest version provides experimental support for FHIR profile creation.
Read MoreFundamentals of eCQM Development Webinar
On December 16, Angela Flanagan presented a one-hour webinar on the Fundamentals of eCQM Development. This presentation introduced the basics of eCQM development and focused on fundamentals, such as the blueprint and Quality Data Model. The webinar also covered the tools used in eCQM development such as Value Set Authoring Center (VSAC), Measure Authoring Tool (MAT), and Bonnie…
Read MoreHL7 and FHIR: The New Standard for Health Exchange Interoperability
Liora Alschuler and Rick Geimer (remote presenter) presented at the Vermont Information Technology Leaders (VITL) Summit on October 1, 2015 in Burlington, VT. They provided a brief history of HL7 standards, an overview of FHIR, how CDA and FHIR can work together and the path forward. The VITL Summit was a two day event packed with five tracks…
Read MoreLong Term and Post Acute Care (LTPAC) Summit – 2015
The LTPAC Summit was held in Baltimore, MD June 21-23, 2015. The LTPAC Health IT Collaborative has convened key HIT leaders, policy makers, leading providers, federal state grantees and other professional for the last decade to advance policies and initiatives to alight with the national healthcare strategy. The “LTPAC Across Care Settings” session demonstrated how…
Read MoreHealth Level 7 Policy Conference – Winter 2014
The HL7 Policy Conference was held on December 4-5, 2014. The meeting focused on how policy can accelerate interoperability and foster innovation. Liora Alschuler gave a presentation on standards maturity, the alignment of standards and policy and how analytics can drive positive change.
Read MoreWEDI Webinar – Interoperability: Practical, Affordable & Valuable
Interoperability is key to delivering value-based care – and lack of ROI for HIT investment is a major barrier to interoperability. Ever wonder how to break through this cycle? Take a look at this talk we presented for WEDI, the Workgroup on Electronic Data Interchange. We looked at the role data standards play in supporting…
Read More2014 WEDI Summer Forum – Consolidated CDA R2
Lantana’s Russell Hamm alongside Durwin Day with Health Care Service Corporation and Eric Pupo from Deloitte led a session on Consolidated CDA (C-CDA) R2 at the 2014 WEDI Summer Forum. The session provided an overview of C-CDA R2, outlined key differences between past versions of C-CDA and C-CDA R2 and provided insight into expected changes and future…
Read MoreConnecting Michigan for Health 2014 – Clinical Quality Improvement Current & Future
Kanwarpreet Sethi spoke at the Connecting Michigan for Health 2014 Meeting held by Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN). The presentation outlined current quality reporting standards and planned work to unify standards and make adoption easier.
Read MoreWEDI Health Innovations Summit 2014 – Crossing the Chasm Between Quality & Administrative Data
Crystal Kallem gave a presentation at the 2014 Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) Health Innovations Summit. The presentation discussed the use of administrative and clinical data for quality and continuity of care and reviewed Health IT standards enabling automated quality measurement and continuity of care.
Read MoreHealth Story at HIMSS 2014 Showcase
Liora Alschuler gave a talk on the Health Story Project at the HIMSS 2014 Interoperability Showcase. The talk was titled “Interoperability For Everyone” and described the Project background, purpose and the Health Story Showcase demonstration. Liora announced the official launch of The Health Story Roundtable & the election of a new Leadership Council. For information…
Read MoreThe Health Story Project for Interoperability
At the 2014 IHE NA Connectathon in Chicago, Liora Alschuler presented “The Health Story Project for Interoperability.” Liora discussed the evolution and past contributions of the Health Story Project and corresponding partnerships, and how Health Story will raise awareness and improve information exchange and interoperability for coordinated patient care, payer-provider integration, and population health.
Read MoreQuality Reporting Under Meaningful Use Stage 2
For WEDI’s December 12 Town Hall Webinar, Crystal Kallem presented “Quality Reporting under Meaningful Use Stage 2.” To learn more about becoming a WEDI member, please send an email to Samantha Holvey –sholvey@wedi.org.
Read MoreFDB Customer Seminar: Using HL7 C-CDA; and Quality Reporting with eMeasures and HL7 QRDA
George Augustine Koromia, MD presented two sessions at the FDB Customer Seminar 2013: “Basics of Clinical Information Exchange Using HL7’s Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture,” and “Basics of Quality Reporting Using eMeasures and HL7’s Quality Data Reporting Architecture.”
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