Healthcare IT News September 22, 2020
Joyoti Goswami

Communicating lab orders and results across multiple care settings and with treating physicians, quickly and effectively, is the need of the hour.

The clinical manifestations of COVID-19 are varied, and patients are known to have rapidly changing signs and symptoms that must be tracked with laboratory testing. A patient may start his treatment journey with his primary care physician and will include lab centers, diagnostic centers, inpatient, and home quarantine centers.

It is crucial for the respective laboratory information or electronic health record systems to share the lab tests and diagnostic information with each other. Communicating the lab orders and results across multiple care settings and with treating physicians, quickly and effectively, is the need of the hour.

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Topics: EMR / EHR, Health IT, Healthcare System, HIE (Interoperability), HIM (Health Inf Mgmt), Patient / Consumer, Provider, Public Health / COVID, Technology
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