CEO SUMMARY: Health information exchanges (HIEs) are operating nationwide, but few handle lab test orders and results with ease the way HealthBridge does. This long-established HIE in Cincinnati, Ohio, allows physicians to send lab test orders from their electronic health record systems (EHRs) and to receive matched lab test results back in their EHRs. One […]
Hospital Lab Uses HIE To Win Outreach Clients
In Cincinnati, Mercy Lab Services quadrupled outreach test volume while holding costs constant
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XVIII No. 14 - October 17, 2011 Issue
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