Written by Cathy Zatloukal
A comprehensive network strategy can trump wireless challenges for healthcare enterprises.
There has never been a better time to take advantage of wireless connectivity in healthcare. Technologies have matured, carriers value their highly mobile healthcare customers, and the demand to untether caregiving is high. The time is right for hospitals to forge ahead and adopt next generation wireless technology, placing mobile applications within reach.
Written by E. Victor Brown, Senior Editor
As more practices implement EMRs, a measure of effectiveness is the ability to interface with the lab and the LIS.
According to The Joint Commission, the lion’s share of the information used by physicians for medical decision-making is produced in the lab. Consequently, a major portion of the clinical data populating EMRs comes from the lab. It is therefore not surprising that one of the biggest challenges facing lab managers today is the EMR and the effective electronic integration of data from one information system to another within the rest of the health organization or network. With clinical results such a key component of the EMR, the laboratory information system (LIS) is the critical link in the flow of data that makes the interface and integration capabilities of an LIS critical throughout the healthcare continuum.