AHA Strategic Partnership:
Lab Interoperability Cooperative
A catalyst for interoperability, our goal is to help hospital labs become meaningful users of certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) technologies for the submission of electronic data on reportable laboratory results to public health agencies.
While technical standards exist to enable the secure, electronic exchange of lab results, the implementation and use of these standards by the commercial labs, hospitals and providers has been limited for public health reporting. By engaging hospital labs, which handle the majority of lab tests in the United States, the cooperative not only represents a unique opportunity to advance lab interoperability with public health agencies, but with the nation’s health care system overall.
Lab Interoperability Cooperative Upcoming Workshops
LOINC Workshop: Best Practices for LOINC encoding for Meaningful Use Stage I and II Requirements. The session provides a broader ELR perspective focused on hospital laboratory outreach and recruitment, Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC®) education, and connectivity between providers and public health. This is a hands-on workshop open to hospital-based laboratory and IT project teams focused on public health reporting requirements.
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Hospitals selected to participate in the pilot will benefit from the resources the LIC will provide. As a result, participants may reach meaningful use goals more rapidly, knowing they have met the regulatory requirements for connectivity. Furthermore, participants will be equipped to confidently address future public health and clinical laboratory reporting requirements as meaningful use initiatives evolve.
Learn more at www.labinteroperabilitycoop.org.
