HIMSS: Lawson introduces Clinical Bridge

Lawson Software, an Infor affiliate, announced the availability of Lawson Clinical Bridge at the 2012 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Las Vegas.

Powered by the Lawson Cloverleaf Integration Engine, the Lawson Clinical Bridge adapters for enterprise resource planning link clinical, financial and operational systems. Customers using Lawson's S3 applications can implement Lawson Clinical Bridge to exchange data with various clinical systems, allowing customers to share data.

Lawson Clinical Bridge will facilitate assigning charges and supply utilization to a particular episode of care, inventory updates, operating room requisition, returns, patient refunds and revenue visibility, the St. Paul, Minn.-based Lawson stated.
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