Health Information Technology

Clinical laboratories have developed and offered health information technology (IT) solutions to providers for well over two decades.  This technology improves patient care while promoting the highest level of efficiency and affordability. Laboratory providers know from experience that, implemented properly, health IT can provide ready access to timely, relevant, reliable and secure information.

Given the fact that laboratory data is one of, if not the most sought after information from providers, clinical laboratories are uniquely positioned to inform both state and federal efforts to bring this technology to doctors and their patients throughout the country.  Yet regulatory hurdles remain that keep this information from being utilized to its fullest capacity.   ACLA seeks to have the laboratory industry serve as an active participant in the decision-making bodies for health IT policy to convey our expertise with the transmission and integration of laboratory data.  ACLA wants to avoid the problems that the laboratory industry experienced in the past such as the implementation of the HIPAA standard transaction requirements in which requirements did not always match the operational realities of providing laboratory services and billing for these services.