CEO SUMMARY: In British Columbia, two commercial laboratory competitors have found common ground. BC Biomedical Laboratories and MDS Metro Laboratories are using LOINC to link their laboratory test databases. Physicians use a single system to access their patient’s test results, regardless of which lab performed the test. Coming enhancements to the system include wireless access […]
Lab Competitors Pool Lab Data For Clinicians In British Columbia
Moving Physicians to Web-Based Lab Reporting
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume IX No. 12 - August 26, 2002 Issue
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