Lantana Consulting Group

Lantana Consulting Group specializes in standards-based health information exchange, with expertise spanning more than a decade in HL7, FHIR, and Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) development and implementation. Originally founded as Alschuler Associates, LLC in June 2005 and rebranded as Lantana in 2011, the company operates as a distributed team of more than 30 consultants across the United States, Australia, and Canada.

The firm focuses on designing and implementing FHIR and CDA compliant systems, including validation, document management, authoring, data conversion, and web services for information exchange. Their work supports government agencies, hospitals, technology companies, and insurance providers in achieving clinical information exchange for continuity of care and policy decision-making. Lantana has been instrumental in pioneering numerous healthcare IT innovations, including being first to adopt XML as the exchange syntax for HL7, developing the first online CDA Validator, and contributing to the conceptual development of FHIR.

The company maintains a strong commitment to standards development, contributing the equivalent of a full-time employee annually toward volunteer activities and providing license-free tools including Trifolia-on-FHIR, Trifolia Workbench, and various open-source healthcare data exchange tools.

Choose Lantana when your organization requires deep technical expertise in healthcare data standards, particularly for FHIR implementation, HL7 integration, or regulatory compliance with federal interoperability mandates. Their team's direct involvement in standards development provides insider knowledge that translates to practical, future-proof implementations.

Expect a consulting approach grounded in incremental change and semantic interoperability, with emphasis on protecting your clinical data investment across evolving applications and exchange protocols. Their field-tested methods derive from hundreds of client engagements and first-hand standards development experience.

Lantana exclusively serves healthcare, focusing on the technical infrastructure that enables health information exchange. Their work addresses quality reporting, public health reporting, research applications, and meaningful use of electronic health records. The company has developed healthcare-specific standards including Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) and Healthcare Quality Measure Format (HQMF), demonstrating domain expertise in both clinical care delivery and regulatory compliance requirements unique to the healthcare sector.

Organizations implementing federal interoperability mandates, EHR vendors building standards-compliant exchange capabilities, government health agencies requiring proven expertise with regulatory requirements, and health systems establishing foundational FHIR infrastructure for long-term data sustainability. Clients who value standards-based approaches over proprietary solutions and need consultants who understand both the technical specifications and the rationale behind healthcare data standards.