Improve Patient Care, Lower Costs and Create Strategic Advantage
Health Information Technology (HIT) Interfaces
CSS offers HL-7 and ASTM Interfaces to a variety of HIT systems, such as:
Electronic Medical Record (EMR) System
Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) System
Hospital Information System (HIS)
Pharmacy System
Practice Management System (PMS)
Clinical Decision Support (CDSS)
LIS to LIS
Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE)
Reference Laboratory
Other vendor’s Medical Billing System
Patient Care and Safety
The importance of the Total Testing Process (TTP) concept to the improvement of pre- and post-analytic quality, safety and the management of clinical and administrative information has been well recognized since the CDC advanced the concept in the early 1980s. At that time, the CDC recognized three distinct phases of the TTP continuum:
Pre-analytic:
Clinician test selection, test ordering and specimen collection, identification and transport.
Analytic:
Specimen processing and preparation, testing of the specimen, results review and verification, and quality control (QC)
Post-analytic:
Turn Around Times (TATs), critical value reporting, results reporting, clinician interpretation and specimen storage.
Advancement of analyzer technology, thirty years of refinement in LIS software and widespread adoption of LIS have driven down analytical lab error; but, the pre- and post-analytical phases remain error prone (according to a number of authoritative sources, something approaching 80% of all medically significant lab errors occur in the pre- and post-analytical phases and some of the analytic errors originate in pre-analytic processes).
The key to reducing these pre- and post-analytical errors is to extend the electronic reach of the LIS out to processes involving the ordering, resulting, interpretation and use of lab orders through interfaces to various Health Information Technology (HIT) systems such as Electronic Medical Record (EMR), Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE), Point of Care Testing (POCT), Pharmacy and Clinical Decision Support (CDSS) Systems.
In addition to the improvement of patient care and safety, interfacing the LIS to these various HIT systems offer a variety of other advantages, such as:
Convenient for clinicians, laboratorians and patients
Easier and more straight forward for Clinicians
Improved Turn Around Times (TATs)
Lower Costs
By pushing the test catalog and accessioning process out to the systems that clinicians use to order and use labs, you:
Reduced transcription costs and create better, more actionable medical records
Create more efficient lab process, leading to increased lab capacity
Minimize labor per unit test production, leading to lower labor costs
Eliminate re-work and follow up
Reduce Medicare and Insurance denials, billing re-work and bad debt
Improve cash flow
Strategic Advantage
For a regional reference lab, client satisfaction and strategic competitive advantage are the keys to running a profitable and growing business.
Patient satisfaction
Client satisfaction
Client convenience
Clinician satisfaction
Reduction of patient and clinician inquires and the labor necessary to answer them
