CEO SUMMARY: Hospital and health system lab managers say some vendors of electronic health record systems for independent physicians are aggressively raising the fees they charge labs. Labs serving outreach physicians now pay more in two ways, they say. First, they pay the price the vendor charges to implement an LIS-to-EHR interface. Second, they pay […]
LIS-EHR Fees Increasing, Say Hospital Lab Execs
Just when clinical labs most need to control costs, some EHR vendors are charging more for interfaces
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XXVI No. 4 - March 18, 2019 Issue
- Tags: clinical lab, Clinical Laboratory, clinical labs, dark report, ehr, ehr vendor, ehr vendors, electronic health record, electronic health record systems, electronic medical record, hospital lab outreach programs, informatics, lab managers, lab outreach, lab test, lab tests, lab work, Meaningful Use, Medicare, medicare lab, outreach lab, pathology informatics, the clinical laboratory, the dark report, the electronic medical record
