Alschuler Associates and Semantically Yours Announce Merger as Lantana Consulting Group

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Two leaders in health information exchange announced plans to merge consulting practices today at the Health Level Seven (HL7) Working Group meeting.  Liora Alschuler, principal, Alschuler Associates, LLC, and Bob Dolin, MD, principal, Semantically Yours, LLC, will form Lantana Consulting Group, an authority on health information exchange standards and information-driven healthcare.

The new company will launch January 1, 2011.  It will serve the health information exchange market, experiencing rapid growth driven by federal standards for digitizing medical records, patient demand for portable information, and hospitals' need for cost savings.  Lantana Consulting Group's impressive client list will include Fortune 100 companies and influential organizations in the public and private sectors, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Cancer Institute.

Dolin is the current chair of the HL7 standards development organization and an internationally recognized expert in health information interoperability specializing in terminology, decision support and quality reporting.  Alschuler is a leader in healthcare architecture for interoperability, standards development, and related application development and standards certification support.  

Alschuler, Dolin and their staff play an active role developing the foundational standards for health information exchange.  With the combined strength of the two firms, Lantana Consulting Group will be in a unique position to help government agencies, hospitals, technology companies and insurance providers make health information interoperable and reusable.

Alschuler will be chief executive officer of the new Lantana Consulting Group, and Dolin will be president and chief medical officer.  The merged entity will operate virtually, with consultants positioned throughout the U.S. and Canada.  www.lantanagroup.com  

SOURCE Lantana Consulting Group

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