MEDITECH
Outreach Laboratory
product brief

MEDITECH enables outreach labs to operate efficiently and profitably by reducing turnaround times and streamlining workflow. Lab staff has more time to perform tests, so clients receive results more quickly, while the lab has more time to work on a larger base of clients.

Highlights:
   • Streamlines requisitioning
   • Results in flexible billing procedures
   • Allows staff to track and document call backs
   • Contains a future orders database to maintain schedule of upcoming orders
   • Provides comprehensive reporting options
   • Provides flexibility to integrate lab data into the MEDITECH Health Care Information System (HCIS).

Standard Features

Streamlined Requisitioning
Your outreach lab is able to accession specimens efficiently and accurately. The requisitioning process is streamlined through the staff’s ability to:
• Quickly enter orders with abridged patient information
• Register patients and assign medical records, if necessary, through the LIS after accessioning, reducing front end paperwork
• Preprint bar coded client requisitions and labels, eliminating the need for relabeling once in the laboratory, thereby reducing errors
• Provide clients with the option of maintaining their own numbering wheel and patient identifiers
• Perform Batch Requisitioning for “Mall or Fair” screening
• Check Medical Necessity at the time of ordering.

Flexible Billing Procedures
Integration between our Lab system and the Billing/Accounts Receivable application helps outreach labs to smoothly and effectively handle patient and client billing, improving timely payment of lab invoices. Our flexible billing procedures give you the ability to:
• Bill independently or integrate with the hospital’s billing system
• Utilize unlimited fee schedules, allowing your lab to offer each client specialized rates and discounts
• Have charges automatically flow to Billing/Accounts Receivable when demographic information has been entered completely
• Reduce AR days.

Ability to Track and Document Call Backs
Staff can systematically call specimen results to clients, then track and document those calls by using free or canned text.

Call backs can be determined by:
• Requisition
• Result
• Specimen priority
• Technologist intervention
• Client criteria or parameters.

Future Orders Database
Staff can easily create placeholders for future requisitions, allowing managers to track upcoming orders and determine workloads. Staff is able to:
• Create single and series orders
• Enter an order, although certain patient and specimen information may be unavailable at the time
• Automatically cancel uncollected orders, after a predetermined period of time
• Avoid having future orders appear on pending logs
• Renew expiring series orders
• Provide warnings when a series is complete.

Comprehensive Reporting Options
Managers have access to a variety of reports, enabling them to provide clients with the information they need, in the format they desire, when they need it. Managers can quickly and efficiently:
• Handle multiple client addresses for reporting
• Create client-centric reports, such as statistical, workflow, and patient reports
• Determine how reports should be distributed (i.e. fax or e-mail).

Flexibility to Integrate with the MEDITECH HCIS
Outreach labs have the option to integrate lab results with the patient’s medical record in the MEDITECH System. The inherent flexibility of our LIS gives your lab the ability to:
• Have certain patient results populate the electronic medical record
• Assign Medical Record Numbers
• Provide clients with on-line access to results.

For more information about us, contact a MEDITECH Marketing Representative

MEDITECH
Medical Information Technology, Inc.
MEDITECH Circle
Westwood, MA 02090
781-821-3000
www.meditech.com