I'm certain this topic has been previously threaded to death, so please feel free to point me in the direction of a thread that may have already answered this.

As a solo practitioner, I have successfully gotten Lab interfaces from Quest and Clinical Path Labs, but have been unsuccessful at coaxing the two big hospital labs in my area, as well as Labcorp, to create an electronic interface. Since I do not have a lab draw station at my office, I would say that at least 60% or more of my patients go to the hospital labs or Labcorp (often for insurance or other convenience reasons). Therefore, I am only able to secure perhaps 20-25% (at best) of my lab results as "structured data". I have hence given up hope of ever being able to complete Stage 2 of MU.

Has anyone found themselves in a similar situation but found some sort of a workaround?

Thanks


E. Luis Prieto, MD, FACP
Internal Medicine
Sebastian, FL