Challenges • Fulfill the requirements of Meaningful Use while facing increasing competition in the lab referral business. • Improve integration of EMR and Lab systems to eliminate dual patient identification numbers, which require manual matching of records between the two systems. • Eliminate excess labor costs associated with manual matching of patient records. • Deliver lab results faster by speeding up matching of patient records and eliminating, on average, 30 minutes of manual matching per lab result. Benefits • Created a patient ID matching system using Lawson Cloverleaf Integration Engine and Secure Courier to integrate with Alpena's purchased EMR interface. • Implemented system on time and on budget. • Reduced from 40 percent to 15 percent the number of

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