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May 02, 2011 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

By Robert Michel, from the Volume XVIII No. 6 - May 2, 2011 issue

Another laboratory information system (LIS) product has received certification as meeting stage 1 meaningful use (MU) measures. On March 31, McKesson Corporation announced that the Drummond Group’s ONC-aTCB 2011-2012 (ATCB 2011/2012) certification as a compliant EHR module was given to the McKesson Horizon Lab LIS.
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In a similar development, Sunquest Information Systems issued a

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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 Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT), an ONC-ATCB, issued a

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Volume XXV No. 17 – December 3, 2018

DID CONGRESS JUST PASS A LAW that makes innocent labs guilty of criminal acts? At the last minute, Congress added all clinical laboratories to a far-reaching anti-kickback provision in the newly-enacted Support for Patients and Communities Act -- a provision that makes common practices such as paying commissions to sales staff or placing phlebotomists in labs could be illegal. Worse: The experts are baffled by the language of the new law. Notes one of these experts in this issue, "Someone in the clinical lab industry may have to get prosecuted before we get some clarity, unless the Secretary of HHS issues clarifying regulations."

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