Improving Hospital Quality and Accountability through Public Reporting

January 24, 2019

Collecting and analyzing quality of care and payment data is central to the shift from volume to value-based care. Reporting the results publicly is essential to the government’s mission to put the consumer at the center of this transformation. Lantana has provided key services at each stage of the data collection, analysis, and reporting process.…

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Improving Public Health through Public Reporting

January 24, 2019

In 2007, as the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) was gearing up to collect information on healthcare associated infections (HAIs), they needed a mechanism to pull information captured in local infection control applications and EHRs without redundant data entry. The prevalent standards for data sharing could not easily model the reports and were not compatible…

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What is AUR and Why Do We Care?

June 19, 2017

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.

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