Data strategies & benchmarks : the monthly advisory for health care executives
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Lab information system is a lean, mean time-tracking machine. Reorganizing around a laboratory information system (LIS) allowed the primary care Chester County (SC) Hospital to develop a model of streamlined efficiency that ranks very favorably against peer benchmarks in terms of productivity and cost-efficiency. Key components are "auto-merge" and "auto-release" features that dramatically speed up lab test processing, but raised eyebrows among clinical lab staff.