Health Care Information Technology

Increasingly, clinical laboratories are using information technology (IT) innovations to improve patient care, as well as to promote the highest level of efficiency and affordability. Implemented properly, IT will provide ready access to timely, relevant, reliable and secure information through an interconnected infrastructure affording better health and health care.

ACLA wants to make sure that the laboratory industry is an active participant as IT becomes a more important part of health care delivery. Specifically, ACLA wants to avoid the problems that the laboratory industry experienced with the implementation of the HIPAA standard transaction requirements in which requirements did always not match the operational realities of providing laboratory services and billing for these services.

On October 21, 2004, ACLA was elected to the eHealth Initiative Leadership Council, the governing body for the eHealth Initiative.