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 electronic lab test orders and lab test reporting. The California HealthCare Foundation sponsored the […]
ELINCS Specifications Released in California
Labs will face big challenges when data and coding standards proliferate in 2012 and beyond
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XVIII No. 13 - September 26, 2011 Issue
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