That sounds like a good way to do reconciliation. I don't see this as a function that can be delegated to staff or emr itself for a very long time. There is pretty much no way for anyone except the ordering physician to recognize and appreciate the results of ordered tests. I understood the MU2 requirement for lab data to be received in a granular fashion to be impossible in my practice. Research into my patient population shows that my patients come from something like 50 different towns in 26 states. I can quickly name at least 12 different labs that I receive data from, many from other states. It will be a very long time before I will have an interface that will allow 40% of my labs to enter my emr in a granular fashion. Lab reconciliation has been a process that I have focused on for years. At first I tried to work with the old AC reconciliation function. It was not workable. I will not be going to version 7 until after the first of the year but what I have seen does not look much more functional than the old method. I think the computer people need to start looking for a " best practice" physician and try to emulate the system that practice is using.
Monty....have ou gone into the administrative area and asked that your orders come back to you in X days, or are you just needing to remember todo it every time you write an order?
