Focus on: Health Information Technology: CLIA Rules and the Current Stage of E-Health Records February 22, 2010
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With the federal initiative to promote adoption of health information technology (HIT), including electronic health records (EHRs), clinical laboratories face significant challenges in meshing their operations with a host of requirements, including system interoperability with trading partners and with health information exchanges, privacy and security standards, and rules for assuring the accuracy and reliability of patients health data.