By Kelly A. Briganti, Editorial Director, G2 Intelligence
It's been several years but Millenium won an appeal in a lawsuit Ameritox brought against the company arguing Millenium's point-of-care testing (POCT) cup program violated unfair competition laws and the Anti-kickback statute (AKS) and Stark law. As we reported in G2 Compliance Advisor earlier this year, Ameritox had alleged violations of the Lanham Act and state tort laws claiming Millenium engaged in unfair competition and tortiously interfered with Ameritox's business relationships by providing POCT cups at no charge to physicians who referred urine samples to Millenium for testing. Ameritox claimed these cups had immunoassay testing strips embedded in the cup and were provided to…
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 Seamless Interoperability Between Your Laboratory and the Practice EMR: ELLKAY Makes It Happen
To compete in today's healthcare market, laboratories are seeking long-term connectivity partners who will help them add value to their services, assist referring physicians in delivering better outcomes, and improve bottom lines. Since 2002, ELLKAY has been committed to making interoperability happen, acting as a one-stop-shop for laboratory connectivity.
For over a decade, we have been connecting laboratories to EMR/PM systems, building a strong foundation of laboratory expertise, and growing our comprehensive knowledgebase of structured data and system connectivity. Partnering with ELLKAY enables laboratories to take advantage of the relationships and connectivity we have built with hundreds of EMR systems.
Our quality support and full-service solutions have made us a nationwide leader in providing connectivity throughout the healthcare continuum. We empower diagnostic laboratories with powerful, cost-effective technologies and solutions they need to increase revenue and market-share, including
- Solutions for electronic orders and results
- Implementing and managing interfaces with EMRs
- Cross-reference mapping for insurance codes, test codes, and LOINC codes
- Real-time connectivity to patient demographic and insurance information.
With connectivity to 500+ PM/EMR systems in 31,000+ practices, we are the healthcare industry's "Data Plumbers," building the data pipeline for laboratories, hospitals, PM/EMR systems, HIEs, ACOs, and other healthcare organizations.
www.ELLKAY.com | 201-791-0606
By Ron Shinkman, Editor, Laboratory Industry Report
LabCorp has launched a prognostic panel intended to gauge the risk of patients being stricken by the most common forms of cancer.
The panel, known as VistaSeq, will be used to identify patients at a higher risk of contracting breast, ovarian, melanoma, pancreatic, colorectal and other forms of cancers. Altogether, those cancers are projected to result in approximately 900,000 new diagnoses annually in the U.S. and be linked to nearly 200,000 deaths. Some of those cancers, if diagnosed earlier, will respond better to aggressive treatment and are more likely to…
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 Top EHR Vendors Choose Liaison EMR-Link™ for Lab Connectivity
Last month, PointClickCare announced its choice of Liaison Healthcare's EMR-Link as their solution for lab and radiology integration. Over the past 18 months, over a dozen leading EHR vendors like PointClickCare have chosen EMR-Link as their solution for lab/rad connectivity.
EHR vendors are turning to Liaison for help in tackling the problem of CPOE (computerized physician order entry). In a world where physicians increasingly see the EHR as their "clinical cockpit," EMR-Link offers a provider-centric order and result workflow that generates clean, complete lab orders from within the EHR workflow.
Because EMR-Link provides integration to any and all EHRs, and because of Liaison's attention to physician success, more and more lab managers are also choosing EMR-Link for their lab outreach solution.
Live at over 1000 sites and supporting over 25,000 clinicians and 150 labs/radiology service providers, EMR-Link is the CPOE solution that clinicians love because it works the way they do. EMR-Link lowers costs for clinics and labs alike by eliminating errors, callbacks, and rework, and improves care by securely delivering easy-to-read, patient-friendly results to the entire care team.
Visit Liaison Healthcare at Lab Institute 2015 to see why EMR-Link is the connectivity solution of choice for EHR vendors, labs, and the physicians they serve.
By Lori Solomon, Editor, Diagnostic Testing & Emerging Technologies
The National Institutes of Health announced awards for $48 million in the third round of funding for the eMERGE program. The Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) project's primary goal is to develop, disseminate, and apply approaches to research that combine DNA biorepositories with electronic medical record (EMR) systems for large-scale, high-throughput genetic research. This latest phase focuses on bringing genomics research towards clinical application by…
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 CareEvolve's outreach connectivity solutions exchange laboratory results and orders between the Laboratory Information System and provider's Electronic Medical Record (EMR/EHR) systems. In addition to industry leading interconnectivity, CareEvolve includes a cloud-based Patient Results Portal, Provider Portal and data analytic functionality. The CareEvolve solutions are currently interfaced with over 300 EMR products and transfer orders and results for more than 30,000 providers. For more information, visit www.careevolve.com or call 888-322-5222.
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