Is “Meaningful Use” the Elephant in the Pathology Lab’s Living Room?

Oct 25, 2010 | Laboratory Management and Operations, Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology

Clinical laboratories and pathology groups must be ready to support physicians’ EMR adoption In 2011, physicians can earn federal incentives for adopting electronic medical record (EMR) systems and demonstrating “meaningful use.” Every clinical laboratory and pathology group must be ready to deal with this new development. That’s because hundreds of thousands of physicians are about to embark on EMR implementation in their practices—with or without laboratory participation. Meaningful use was...

How Clinical Pathology Laboratories Are Preparing to Support EMR Adoption by Office-Based Physicians

Sep 23, 2010 | Laboratory Pathology, News From Dark Daily

Some U.S. laboratories already ramping up their LIS resources to meet demand for LIS-to-EMR interfaces Clinical laboratory managers and pathology groups need to prepare for what is expected to be a tsunami of requests by physicians who want their newly-implemented electronic medical record (EMR) systems to be interfaced with their laboratory’s LIS. This approaching tsunami is a consequence of the billions in federal incentive payments designed to encourage doctors to adopt EMRs. It means lab...
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