Electronic Lab Results – Simplicity at Last

When it comes to managing electronic lab results, healthcare providers face an ongoing quest in utilizing e-Lab technology to manage patient care. With the High Tech Act in full swing it has been estimated that approximately 58% of doctors in the U.S. have adopted some type of electronic health record solution. Unfortunately for most physicians adoption of an electronic health record solution does not guarantee success or times savings in the management of electronic lab results. Stage II of Meaningful Use requires doctors to receive their lab results electronically in their EHR. Regardless of the EHR used the lab data sent from lab companies (such as Lab Corp or Quest Diagnostics) to the doctor’s electronic health record are same. Lab data is lab data but the difference is how efficiently your EHR handles the lab data and manages the results.

MD Logic, the leader in high performance EHR solutions, developed our latest e-Lab software to simplify the management of patient lab results. Thomas J. Bierster, Jr., CEO for MD Logic, commented “prior to developing our latest e-Labs software we invested thousands of hours in research with both customers and non-customers so that we could fully understand the challenges faced by the healthcare community. What we found in our research is that doctors and their staff were forced to click through multiple screens in order to review and manage lab results. Feedback received from doctors and their staff focused on 3 simple requests:

• Provide a single screen to review the lab results for a patient
• Easily identify lab results that are "out" of the Normal Range
• Provide a one touch solution for the provider to document the plan for lab results

“During the design of the new e-Labs software our software development team worked closely with customers to gain valuable feedback on the overall design and workflow management of the e-Labs software. Based upon customer feedback, our new e-Labs software is a huge hit and we feel confident that it will become the industry standard in efficiently managing the workflow of electronic lab results. I am particularly excited about how simple our development team has made identifying trends in lab results. A doctor and staff member can choose any single or multiple lab result and with the touch of a button and view these results in a graphical format over a selected date range. They say “a picture tells a story” and having the power to view lab results in a graph and identify trends is missions critical to doctors that manage diseases.” Is your EHR software saving you time when it comes to managing lab results? How much time could you save each day if you used the most efficient software for managing these lab results? Are staying late after hours to manage your patients lab results?

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