The Future of Healthcare Now

"The Future of Healthcare. . . Now!"

Secure EHR Lab Results available to Patients, Physicians & Hospital By: Baha Zeidan, CEO Vince Dettore, Sales Manager

Rural Hospital Laboratory Challanges -Trying to compete with the national laboratories (Lab. Corp, Quest) -Medicare reimbursement is getting lower every year -Exclusive contracts between insurance companies and large national medical laboratories -Provide Medical Necessity Checking and ABN Generation before performing the Lab test -Meeting ARRA requirements of "Meaningful Use"

What the ARRA will Require? ARRA focuses on quality of healthcare and efficiency. It will Require electronic exchange of health data between hospitals, providers, patients. . .

"Meaningful Use" Criteria for Labs: 2011 Objectives: • The Use Of CPOE • Incorporate lab-test results into HER • Provide Patients with electronic copy of lab results or electronic access • Provide electronic submissions of reportable lab results to public health agencies

ARRA Incentives to Hospitals Whats at Risk? • Lose of Revenue from ARRA reimbursmements • Revenue lost to competing compliant hospitals (physicians stop sending orders to non-compliant Labs) o Providers incentives are up to $44, 000 to $64, 000 (Medicare + Medicaid) • Hospital incentives up to $6 million.

Lab information exchange Reference Labs (Lab. Corp, Quest) Patients Portal Hospital Lab Physicians Access Through the web Physicians EMRs

Azalea Lab. Hub • Web Based laboratory ordering and resulting system • No need to re-invent the wheel with you current LIS system • Lab. Hub interfaces with LIS

Azalea Lab. Hub Features • Full color pdf orders and results o Color pathology, cytology reporting with photomicrographs • Automated HIPAA faxing module • Accommodates patient service centers and other reference laboratory's ordering and reporting

Lab. Hub Features Continued. . . • Full access to laboratory specimen requirements • Medical Necessity checking and ABN generation • Detailed audit reports o o Orders Summary reports Pending Orders reports PSC Pending reports Test Counts, etc. . . • Standing Orders generation

Benefits of Azalea Lab. Hub • 24/7 Access via any web browser to lab results • HIPAA compliant o 128 bit SSL encryption o Detailed user permissions for system access o HIPAA logs are available to administrators • Improved billing o System has a complete NPI database o Provides Medical Necessity (National and Local Coverage Determinations - NCD/LCD) checking and ABN generation o Reduced errors due to illegible hand written insurance or patient information

Benefits of Lab. Hub Continued. . . • Standards Compliant (HL-7, EDI) o Interfaces with Hospital Systems, Laboratory Systems, Reference Laboratories, EMRs, EHRs, and other systems • Time savings compared to paper requisitions