New Managed Care Contract Opportunity for Clinical Labs and Pathology Groups

Sep 14, 2009 | Laboratory Pathology, Managed Care Contracts & Payer Reimbursement

As health insurers build patient-friendly web sites, they now want all the lab test data For laboratories wanting to contract with managed care plans, it will soon be “all about the data.” In upcoming contract renewal talks, expect health insurers to have a keen interest in working specifically with those clinical laboratories and pathology groups which can interface and electronically provide lab test data. Dark Daily is first to identify this important development. It creates an opportunity...

Cleveland Clinic and Microsoft Team up to Use Point-of-Care Testing in EMR Network

Jul 29, 2009 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology, News From Dark Daily

New care delivery model might emerge from collaboration between two partners Guess which famous health provider is partnering with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) to encourage patients using home self-testing devices to regularly upload those data into an electronic medical record? It’s the Cleveland Clinic Health System. This project may point to a disruptive new model for laboratory testing. It’s a pioneering arrangement. Microsoft’s HealthVault is interfaced with the eCleveland Clinic MyChart...

A New Issue for Laboratories: Consumers Who Want to Keep Their Own EMR

Dec 22, 2006 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology

In recent years, the laboratory industry has debated how to best meet the demand from some consumers to order laboratory tests and receive results without the involvement of their physician. However, direct access testing (DAT) never gained much momentum. Now comes a trend likely to have a greater impact: the Personal Health Record (PHR). In an age where the Internet is a secure way to capture information and paper medical records are slowly being converted to electronic ones, more individuals...
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