Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings will partner with Medicity, a provider of web-based secure clinical computer applications, to offer on-demand lab test ordering and results as part of Medicity's hospital portal product.
The collaboration will aim to enable hospital personnel and physicians to order lab tests and retrieve clinical information directly from LabCorp via a secure portal, which will provide access to clinical information from multiple hospital sources in a single view.
The system intends to improve hospital workflow using features such as digital signatures, document management and clinical messaging. With the assistance of this hospital portal, physicians, nurses, and technicians expect to be able to make important decisions regarding patient care with the benefit of the most current clinical information readily available.
"Providing effective technology solutions that can easily work with applications like electronic medical record (EMR) software is central to LabCorp's connectivity strategy," said LabCorp executive vice president for sales and marketing, Bill Haas. "Our collaboration with Medicity will benefit hospital clients by reducing administrative errors, expediting billing functions, and providing new options for interfacing the hospital with physician EMR applications."
Dr Kipp Lassetter, chief executive office, Medicity, added: "The opportunity LabCorp has given their hospital clients to aggregate clinical data for the benefit of their staff physicians through the use of a Hospital Portal will improve patient care and lower the cost of care."