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Anticipating Washington’s Next Blows to Lab Testing
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XX No. 4 – March 25, 2013 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: With the advent of 2013, almost every lab was responding to some type of price cut. Clinical labs are dealing with the sequential, multi-year cuts to the Medicare Part B Lab Test Price Schedule. Anatomic pathology labs are still adjusting to the expiration of the TC Grandfath…
ELINCS Specifications Released in California
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 13 – September 26, 2011 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Clinical laboratories and pathology groups have a new tool to use for interfacing their LIS (laboratory information systems) with the electronic health record (EHR) systems of their office-based physician clients. It is ELINCS, an IT standard designed to support elec…
Georgia HIE Helps all Labs Feed Test Data to Docs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 12 – September 6, 2011 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In Macon, Georgia, an innovative effort by a regional extension center and a health information exchange (HIE) will level the playing field for hospital labs and independent labs in the state. Their goal is to build a secure and flexible clinical integration platform…
Lawyers Provide Insights About Top Legal Concerns
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 6 – May 2, 2011 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: After conducting the first-ever survey of the most important legal, compliance and managed care concerns for clinical labs and pathology groups, THE DARK REPORT asked leading lab industry attorneys who participated in the survey to say a few words about these topics….
Sunquest’s LIS Product First To Earn Certification from CCHIT
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 2 – February 7, 2011 Issue
IF THERE WAS A RACE TO BE FIRST TO OFFER a laboratory information system (LIS) product that is certified to be compliant as an (EHR) electronic health record module by CCHIT, then Sunquest Information Systems, Inc., has attained that achievement. On January 21, 2011, the Cer…
New “Meaningful Use” Rules Are Easier on Docs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 11 – August 2, 2010 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: The federal government will spend $20 billion over the next four years to encourage every physician to use an electronic medical record (EMR) system. For labs, this increase in connectivity represents a significant marketing opportunity. However, the new federal rule…
Predict 60,000 Doctors To Adopt EMRs Each Year
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 2 – January 25, 2010 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Only about 180,000 U.S. physicians have adopted electronic medical record (EMR) systems over the past 14 years—mostly in larger medical groups. Now experts believe as many as 60,000 physicians per year will begin to adopt EMRs because of new federal incenti…
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