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Azalea LabHub™. "The Future of Healthcare...Now!". Secure EHR Lab Results available to Patients, Physicians & Hospital By: Baha Zeidan, CEO Vince Dettore, Sales Manager. Rural Hospital Laboratory Challanges. -Trying to compete with the national laboratories (LabCorp, Quest)
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Azalea LabHub™ "The Future of Healthcare...Now!"
Secure EHR Lab Results available to Patients, Physicians & HospitalBy: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"
What the ARRA will Require? ARRA focuses on quality of healthcare and efficiency. It will Require electronic exchange of health data between hospitals, providers, patients...
"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) • Providers incentives are up to $44,000 to $64,000 (Medicare + Medicaid) • Hospital incentives up to $6 million.
Lab information exchange Patients Portal Reference Labs (LabCorp, Quest) Hospital Lab Physicians EMRs 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 results • 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 • Orders Summary reports • Pending Orders reports • PSC Pending reports • Test Counts, etc... • Standing Orders generation
Benefits of Azalea LabHub • 24/7 Access via any web browser to lab results • HIPAA compliant • 128bit SSL encryption • Detailed user permissions for system access • HIPAA logs are available to administrators • Improved billing • System has a complete NPI database • Provides Medical Necessity (National and Local Coverage Determinations - NCD/LCD) checking and ABN generation • Reduced errors due to illegible hand written insurance or patient information
Benefits of LabHub Continued... • Standards Compliant (HL-7, EDI) • Interfaces with Hospital Systems, Laboratory Systems, Reference Laboratories, EMRs, EHRs, and other systems • Time savings compared to paper requisitions