"The Future of Healthcare...Now!"

Secure EHR Lab Results available to Patients, Physicians & Hospital

By:

Baha Zeidan, CEOVince Dettore, Sales Manager

        Rural Hospital Laboratory Challanges

-Trying to compete with the national laboratories (LabCorp, Quest)

-Medicare reimbursement is getting lower every year

-Exclusive contracts between insurance companies and large national medical laboratories

-Provide Medical Necessity Checking and ABN Generation before performing the Lab test   -Meeting ARRA requirements of "Meaningful Use" 

ARRA focuses on quality of healthcare and efficiency.

It will Require electronic exchange of health data between hospitals, providers, patients...

What the ARRA will Require?    

       "Meaningful Use" Criteria for Labs:

2011 Objectives:

• The Use Of CPOE

• Incorporate lab-test results into HER

• Provide Patients with electronic copyof lab results or electronic access 

• Provide electronic submissions of reportable lab results to public health agencies

        ARRA Incentives to Hospitals

Whats at Risk?

• Lose of Revenue from ARRA reimbursmements 

• Revenue lost to competing compliant hospitals (physicians stop sending orders to non-compliant Labs)o      Providers incentives are up to $44,000 to $64,000      

(Medicare + Medicaid)            

• Hospital incentives up to $6 million.  

        Lab information exchange

Hospital Lab

Reference Labs

(LabCorp, Quest)

Physicians EMRs

Patients Portal

Physicians Access

Through the web

Azalea LabHub 

• Web Based laboratory ordering and resulting system

• No need to re-invent the wheel with you current LIS system

• LabHub interfaces with LIS 

Azalea LabHub Features

• Full color pdf orders and resultso Color pathology, cytology reporting with photomicrographs

• Automated HIPAA faxing module        • Accommodates patient service centers and other reference

laboratory's ordering and reporting  

LabHub Features Continued...

• Full access to laboratory specimen requirements• Medical Necessity checking and ABN generation

 • Detailed audit reports

 o Orders Summary reportso Pending Orders reportso PSC Pending reportso Test Counts, etc...

  • Standing Orders generation

Benefits of Azalea LabHub

• 24/7 Access via any web browser to lab results • HIPAA compliant

o 128bit SSL encryptiono Detailed user permissions for system accesso HIPAA logs are available to administrators

 • Improved billing

o System has a complete NPI databaseo Provides Medical Necessity (National

and Local Coverage Determinations - NCD/LCD) checking and ABN generation

o Reduced errors due to illegible hand written insurance or patient information

Benefits of LabHub Continued...    

• Standards Compliant (HL-7, EDI) o Interfaces with Hospital Systems, Laboratory Systems,

Reference Laboratories, EMRs, EHRs, and other systems    • Time savings compared to paper requisitions