Is there such thing as a turn key solution in healthcare IT?

EHR, emr, Health IT, Healthcare IT, Interoperability, Laboratory Information Systems (LIS), Laboratory-to-physician, LIS-to-EMR, Miscellaneous, SaaS

While it seems that most healthcare providers are hoping to get to the stage where health information systems (EMR/EHR, LIS, RIS, etc.) provide more workflow efficiency, extreme data security and flexible partner collaboration, the path to Utopia seems to be different in almost every case.  This is due to the fact that each provider is…

3 Methods for electronic ordering

Health IT, Healthcare IT, Interoperability, Laboratory Information Systems (LIS), Laboratory-to-physician, LIS-to-EMR

As the adoption of electronic health records (EHR) continues to increase, so does the need to connect lab systems to EMR software.  Interfaces are usually one-way, or uni-directional, enabling a referring physician system to receive results from the laboratory.  But the next wave to hit involves the use of a bi-directional interface where referring physician’s…