CAP TODAY Pathology/Laboratory Medicine/Laboratory Management
- integrated insurance discovery, which allows the system to automatically search for a patient’s insurance provider and update the system with this information.
- automated document management, which allows documentation to be uploaded and attached to claims and appeals or faxed to payers.
- enhanced business intelligence capabilities, including new monthly and quarterly metrics and benchmarks and collection waterfall charts.
- new patient portal functionality that includes the ability to deliver test results and take prepayments on orders.
RPM 9 extends Xifin’s outsource service model to hospital outreach laboratories and other types of diagnostic service providers.
Xifin, 858-436-2948
Regenstrief Institute updates LOINC database and RELMA
The Regenstrief Institute introduced, last month, LOINC version 2.63 and RELMA version 6.22.
Among other improvements, the latest Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes release has added 1,660 terms, including 736 specific to the laboratory, bringing the total number of terms to 86,528. LOINC is a standard coding system for identifying laboratory test results.
The most recent enhancements to the Regenstrief LOINC Mapping Assistant include the ability to filter search results by user-defined subsets. “Many countries support a curated, nationally-approved list of LOINC codes for use in their jurisdiction,” according to a press release from the Regenstrief Institute. “Rather than search the whole 80,000+ LOINC database, with this new feature, their searches within RELMA are limited to only what they need.”
Additional details about the latest releases of LOINC and RELMA are available at www.bit.ly/LOINC_RELMA_updates.
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Dr. Aller teaches informatics in the Department of Pathology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He can be reached at raller@usc.edu. Hal Weiner is president of Weiner Consulting Services, LLC, Eugene, Ore. He can be reached at hal@weinerconsulting.com.