title: Enhanced laboratory reports: using health information exchange data to provide contextual information to laboratory results for practices without electronic records.
abstract: We created a system that integrates contextual data for selected test results to help providers make appropriate clinical decisions on particular results. The system adds clinical reminders, historical test results, medication dispensing events, and visit information from a regional health information exchange database to create 'Enhanced Laboratory Reports'. The reports are delivered to the provider who ordered the test securely via web-based inbox or facsimile through a clinical messaging system.
authors.affiliation: Indiana University School of Medicine, Regenstrief Institute, Inc., IN, USA.
authors.forename: Martin C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Were
authors.forename: Martin Chieng
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Were
authors.forename: Jim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Meeks-Johnson
authors.forename: J Marc
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Overhage
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D002984:Clinical Laboratory Information Systems; D003628:Database Management Systems; D007196:Indiana; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*; D018511:Systems Integration