Physician practices challenged the organization to electronically deliver clinical results directly into its soon-to-be-installed EMR system. This move was actually challenged and brought about by the physicians who were already using electronic records.
The system is not totally complete, but plans are to expand the process to allow practices to place lab orders and schedule procedures with LRHS. BD
ALPHARETTA, Ga., Nov 04, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Novo Innovations, the leader in software-agent technologies to improve health information exchange, today announced a multi-year contract with Lakeland Regional Health System (LRHS) of St. Joseph, Mich. LRHS has deployed Novo's agent-based healthcare exchange platform to approximately 70 affiliated physicians representing 12 practices over the last two years. Under the agreement, LRHS can now deploy Novo's solution to all remaining affiliated practices. 
The Novo Grid allows LRHS to deliver patient data electronically to the affiliated practices' ambulatory electronic medical record (EMR) systems, increasing the speed in which the information is processed. Discrete lab results, EKG text results, radiology reports, transcriptions, admission and discharge summaries, and surgical notes are now transmitted from the LRHS hospital systems directly into practice EMRs in a matter of minutes. With the Novo system filtering and deduplicating the data, the physician practices receive only the patient information that pertains to them. LRHS plans to expand its use of the Novo platform to accommodate the two-way exchange of data, which will enable practices to place lab orders and schedule procedures with LRHS, among other services.
"Practices with EMRs are demanding electronic interfaces that transmit records directly into their systems, where the data will be immediately available to physicians. The Novo platform deploys quickly, is highly cost-efficient and interfaces our patient record systems with a wide range of ambulatory EMRs in use in our community, including systems by GE, Greenway, eMDs, GEMMS, Altos Solutions and all three Allscripts products."
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