ONC to survey lab HIE capabilities

Luke Gale | | Health Exec | Informatics

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) intends to survey a sample of clinical laboratories nationwide to develop a more complete understanding of existing laboratory exchange capabilities, according to a notice published Oct. 19 in the Federal Register.

“The national survey on health information exchange in clinical laboratories will assess and evaluate the transfer of health information from clinical laboratories to ordering physicians” according to the information collection request submitted by the ONC to the Office of Management and Budget. The survey will inform the state health information exchange cooperative agreement program and focus on two measures, the percentage of laboratories able to electronically send structured lab results and the percentage of lab results currently delivered in coded format.

ONC intends to submit questionnaires to 2,729 hospital-based laboratories and 1,963 independent laboratories. Public comment on the proposal is welcome until Nov. 19, 2012. The complete notice is available on the Federal Register website.

Luke Gale

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