Purpose
1. Automate the end-to-end process of delivering signed lab orders from nurse practitioners to partnered medical laboratories.
2. Automates data extraction from EHR/EMR and ensures seamless electronic transfer to selected labs.
3. Reduces manual coordination, accelerating test initiation and improving record-keeping.
4. Automating notification to labs and practitioners upon order delivery and status updates.
5. Maintains HIPAA-compliance by automatedly handling sensitive patient data.
Trigger Conditions
1. Automate upon electronic signing of lab order in the EHR/EMR.
2. Automating reception of lab order PDF/upload in a secure document directory.
3. Automator detects patient status change to "lab order required" in scheduling platforms.
4. Automated generation when a practitioner updates patient encounter summary to add lab orders.
Platform Variants
1. Epic EMR
• Feature/Setting: HL7 FHIR API – Configure automated lab order export upon status “signed” event.
2. Cerner
• Feature/Setting: Millennium Orders API – Set automation for outbound “LabOrder” resource to external endpoint.
3. Athenahealth
• Feature/Setting: Lab Order API – Automatedly triggers POST to partnered lab system on new order.
4. NextGen
• Feature/Setting: Orders Management REST API – Automator triggers on order creation for electronic submission.
5. eClinicalWorks
• Feature/Setting: Integrate Orders API; automation enables automatic push to lab system via secure endpoint.
6. DrChrono
• Feature/Setting: Labs API; submit new orders automatically when entered into patient record.
7. Quest Diagnostics
• Feature/Setting: Quanum API – Automate POST to create new lab order from EHR data.
8. LabCorp
• Feature/Setting: Lab Orders API – Automatedly ingest orders directly from configurable webhook.
9. Health Gorilla
• Feature/Setting: Lab Network API – Automates lab order routing based on patient and order data.
10. Redox
• Feature/Setting: Data Model “Order” with automated outbound delivery to integrated labs.
11. FHIR HL7
• Feature/Setting: “ServiceRequest” resource; automation sends signed lab orders as standardized FHIR bundles.
12. Zendesk
• Feature/Setting: Triggers and Webhooks – Automate ticket creation and notification when lab orders processed.
13. Twilio SMS
• Feature/Setting: Programmable Messaging API to automate sending SMS notifications to labs/practitioners.
14. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: Email API – Automator sends notifications and lab order attachments to lab contacts.
15. Dropbox
• Feature/Setting: Webhooks – Automatedly upload and share lab order PDFs with lab partner folder.
16. DocuSign
• Feature/Setting: Envelope Completed Webhook – Automates forwarding signed lab order PDFs.
17. Google Drive
• Feature/Setting: Drive API; automation detects new docs and shares directly to partnered labs.
18. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhook – Automates posting lab order alerts to lab team channels.
19. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhooks – Automated posting to dedicated #lab-orders channel for partner lab review.
20. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: Webhook/Trigger Zap; automator connects event in EHR to partner lab endpoint.
21. SFTP Servers
• Feature/Setting: Automated secure file transfer of lab orders on order finalization event.
22. Mailgun
• Feature/Setting: Automated email with attachments to labs for every processed lab order event.
23. Salesforce Health Cloud
• Feature/Setting: Outbound Messaging – Automate lab order task generation on record update event.
24. Box
• Feature/Setting: Automated folder sharing and notification for new lab order uploads to lab partners.
Benefits
1. Automation reduces errors and delays in lab order delivery.
2. Automates compliance and tracking, ensuring proper documentation.
3. Accelerates patient care and test result turnaround via automating coordination.
4. IT overhead is minimized: automating repetitive administrative tasks.
5. Enhances transparency and visibility for both nurse practitioners and labs through automated alerts.
6. Strengthens data security by automating encrypted, audit-trailed document delivery processes.
7. Automating the process standardizedly supports multi-lab coordination and scaling.
Workflow Communication & Coordination