Ok. Here's my 2-cents worth. We have both the Labcorp and Quest interface. We have a Quest computer. Also, see my other posts in the thread asking about lab interfaces. We use Quests Physician 360 Website.
Both Quest and Labcorp will pay for your interface (You may have to ask Labcorp to do it, but they will. Quest tells you up front that they are paying for it). The biggest issue we faced with this was getting AC to actually bill them. Labcorp has finally been billed and immediatly paid AC. Last I spoke with our Quest co-ordinator, AC hadn't yet billed them, but at least our interface didn't shut off on Nov. 1 like it did on Oct. 1.
We have a bridge from the Quest computer in the lab to AC. This allows us to bridge demographics from AC into the lab order form. Only one problem--you have to know the patients chart number (generated by AC) to do it. But if you put that number into the Quest system and click on "Bridge It!" BAM demos are in.
For $25, Quest will upgrade their system with a "Generic Requisition" that will let you print lab slips for other lab companies. It doesnt send the order electronically tothe other company, but prints a lab slip that you put inthe bag with your blood/urine etc. samples. We paid the $25 and are generating our Labcorp orders through the system. Works pretty well.
To import labs, both Quest and Labcorp will put a little program on your PC/server to go and download results to a folder in your AC directory. In AC, go to File/Import Labs (I think) a couple times a day to import the labs. We tell them to only send us Final labs so we don't have all of the partial reports. If they get an immedialtely serious abnormality, they call us about it anyway.
Quest lab imports have alot of bugs. ALOT. ALOT. ALOT. AC needs to go fix that. See my posts in the other thread.
All I can think of for now, and I gotta go catch my train.
Wayne
