CEO SUMMARY: Collaborative care is an essential element of accountable care organizations (ACO) and other emerging models of integrated clinical care. At MedCentral Health System, one clinical chemist has held a key place on the physician team that develops order sets and clinical alerts. He is using this opportunity to leverage the clinical laboratory into […]
Boosting the Lab’s Role in Collaborative Care
Sharing lessons in how this health system lab contributes to improvement in patient outcomes
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XX No. 1 - January 22, 2013 Issue
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