Bert,
It's not too bad of a performance hit but our old 512 of Ram tower needs a few extra chips here, so for the moment I want to just look for labs a few times a day. If I had a more modern amount in my slots I would probably just let it run. Yes I will keep the gang informed as we go along. Unfortunately until today most of our labs went to LabCorp and not Quest so it will be a few days/weeks before we truly realize its potential.
We have a lunch scheduled with our rep for next week and at that meeting I will talk to her more about the bi-directional part. It is a "Bridge" as they put it. Any insight or thoughts or explaination there? I think this will be like x-link and help take out of AC our Demographics when we write the orders. Again with so little RAM I hesitate to have too much runnning on the main tower right now. I spoke with the tech who installed the first part this morning and the nice part it is on a case by case, order by order basic. So it won't just let Quest go rumage thru our server anytime they darn well please.
Our Quest rep says that they are accepting UHC claims at in-network rates and that they will not be banging the customers for the difference, so that they can keep their relationship and business with UHC patients. We may send a few patients thru (with a warning) to see how this really plays out, but we shall see. If their claims go thru and it is no different to the patients then I would have no need to look at the LabCorp interface. For NYSer's she did say that the Empire Plan (a NYS employees plan, admin'ed by UHC) was being problematic and those patients would need to go to LabCorp probably.
Anyway, I've got to go get my kids and get ready to officiate the men's league tonight, so let me run. Have a great night and we shall see how this all plays out.
Paul
