Laboratory Communication Services definition
Laboratory Communication Services. Laboratory Communication Services" shall mean on-line transaction, messaging and content services which connect physician offices with Payer and with clinical laboratories (via the Synetic System) in order to enable physicians to write, modify and order laboratory tests, view laboratory test results, and review information relating to or prompted by the selection of a laboratory test, as such services are more fully described in Schedule C.
Laboratory Communication Services means on-line transaction, messaging and content services which connect physician offices with Payer and with clinical laboratories (via the Synetic System) in order to enable physicians to write, modify and order laboratory tests, view laboratory test results, and review information relating to or prompted by the selection of a laboratory test. Such services include but are not limited to the following: (1) enabling physicians to conduct registration and identification of patients consistent with plan eligibility, (2) enabling physicians to access lab results histories, (3) enabling physicians to write a lab order, (4) enabling physicians to review the lab order relative to Payer's administrative, financial or clinical rules, (5) providing messages, alerts, advisories and other notifications to and from physicians, particularly when lab treatment is at variance to Payer's rules, (6) enabling physicians to authorize and route lab orders to a clinical laboratory (where permitted by laws and regulations), (7) enabling laboratories to route lab results to physicians, and (8) interpreting lab results. The following is a description of the various functions of such services:
Laboratory Communication Services means on-line transaction, messaging and content services which connect physician offices with Payer and with clinical laboratories (via the Synetic System) in order to enable physicians to write, modify and order laboratory tests, view laboratory test results, and review information relating to or prompted by the selection of a laboratory test. Such services include but are not limited to the following: (1) hosting all relevant Payer-supplied information, and presenting, displaying or providing such information to End-Users as described below, (2) enabling physicians to conduct registration and identification of patients consistent with plan eligibility, (3) enabling physicians to access lab results histories, (4) enabling physicians to write a lab order, (5) enabling physicians to review the lab order relative to Payer's administrative, financial or clinical rules, (6) providing messages, alerts, advisories and other notifications to and from physicians, particularly when lab treatment is at variance to Payer's rules, (7) enabling physicians to authorize and route lab orders to a clinical laboratory (where permitted by laws and regulations), (8) enabling laboratories to route lab results to physicians, and (9) interpreting lab results. The following is a description of the various functions of such services: