Clinical Operations AutomationPurpose
1.2. Enhance perinatal care by automatedly notifying stakeholders of real-time lab statuses, automating result transmission, archiving, and escalating critical findings for prompt intervention.
1.3. Ensure regulatory compliance (HIPAA, local privacy laws) during automation of patient-sensitive communications in perinatal clinical operations.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Incoming lab result posted for a patient within the perinatal care cohort (automatedly gathered from LIS/EMR).
2.3. Update of a result status to “critical” or “needs attention” (automating clinician alert escalation).
2.4. Clinician or patient record updated with consent for automated notifications.
Platform Variants
3.1. Epic
• Feature/Setting: Interconnect API – automate creation of lab test orders and retrieval of results via FHIR endpoints.
3.2. Cerner
• Feature/Setting: Cerner Open Developer Experience (code)-automated HL7 calls for order insertion and result polling.
3.3. Meditech
• Feature/Setting: Data Repository – schedule SQL jobs for automating test/order result extraction.
3.4. LabCorp
• Feature/Setting: LabCorp Beacon API – automate order submission and secure result fetch.
3.5. Quest Diagnostics
• Feature/Setting: Quanum API – automate test result retrieval and auto-notification integration.
3.6. Twilio SMS
• Feature/Setting: Messages API – automate SMS sends to patients (“Your perinatal lab results are ready.”).
3.7. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: Transactional Email API – automate email delivery of results to clinicians.
3.8. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhooks – automated notification to perinatal clinical team channels on critical results.
3.9. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Graph API – automate alerts to perinatal care group chat based on result status.
3.10. Salesforce Health Cloud
• Feature/Setting: Health Cloud APIs – automate care plan update and notify case managers.
3.11. Gmail
• Feature/Setting: SMTP automation to auto-send authenticated lab result emails.
3.12. DocuSign
• Feature/Setting: eSignature API – automate patient consent capture for result delivery.
3.13. Microsoft Power Automate
• Feature/Setting: Automate connectors for Cerner/Epic, Twilio, and email.
3.14. Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: Sheets API to log every order and notification for traceability.
3.15. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: Automated multi-step workflows for EMR, email, and SMS integration.
3.16. AWS Lambda
• Feature/Setting: Automated serverless function triggers on result record updates.
3.17. Redox
• Feature/Setting: Redox Data Model, automate HL7/FHIR message orchestration between LIS/EMR and external apps.
3.18. Mailgun
• Feature/Setting: Messages API – automate secure result notifications by email.
3.19. Intercom
• Feature/Setting: Automated messages for patient support queries on lab results.
3.20. PagerDuty
• Feature/Setting: Automated incident triggers when critical lab values detected, notifies perinatal care team.
3.21. Webex
• Feature/Setting: Meetings API – automate video consult scheduling if abnormal results.
3.22. Microsoft Outlook
• Feature/Setting: Calendar events API to automate clinician follow-up appointments post-lab result.
3.23. OneDrive
• Feature/Setting: API for automated backup of lab result PDFs to secure perinatal patient folders.
Benefits
4.2. Automated lab result notifications reduce time to clinician response in critical perinatal cases.
4.3. Automated patient updates increase transparency, patient satisfaction, and regulatory compliance.
4.4. Automation reduces manual error risk, ensures audit trails, and enhances operational scalability for perinatal centers.
4.5. Automatedly escalates urgent results to relevant teams, automating life-saving interventions in perinatal care.