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LabCorp
and Medicity, Inc. Partner to Offer Secure
Web-Based Computer Portals
Hospital
Portal System Now Includes Clinical
Laboratory Component
Burlington,
NC, February 1, 2005
- Laboratory Corporation of America® Holdings
(LabCorp®) (NYSE: LH) today announced an exclusive
service relationship with Medicity, Inc., a leading
provider of web-based secure clinical computer applications,
to offer on-demand lab test ordering and results as
part of Medicity’s hospital portal product.
Hospital portals enable clinicians and physicians
to access and interact with multiple, unrelated hospital
information systems through a single, secure, web-based
application.
Through this collaboration,
hospital personnel and physicians can now order lab
tests and retrieve clinical information directly from
LabCorp via a secure portal designed to work with
a hospital’s existing information systems. This
convenient internet-based application provides efficient
access to clinical information from multiple hospital
sources in a single view. The system helps to improve
hospital workflow with features like digital signatures,
document management and clinical messaging. With the
assistance of this state-of-the-art hospital portal,
physicians, nurses, and technicians can make important
decisions regarding patient care with the benefit
of the most current clinical information readily available.
“Providing
effective technology solutions that can easily work
with applications like electronic medical record (EMR)
software is central to LabCorp’s connectivity
strategy,” said LabCorp Executive Vice President
for Sales and Marketing, Bill Haas. “Our collaboration
with Medicity will benefit hospital clients by reducing
administrative errors, expediting billing functions,
and providing new options for interfacing the hospital
with physician EMR applications. We are extremely
pleased to be expanding our relationship with Medicity
and expect many hospital clients to take advantage
of this new offering.”
“The opportunity LabCorp has given their hospital
clients to aggregate clinical data for the benefit
of their staff physicians through the use of a Hospital
Portal will improve patient care and lower the cost
of care,” comments Kipp Lassetter, M.D., Chief
Executive Office, Medicity, Inc. “Lab data is
the ‘anchor’ tenant to a hospital’s
physician portal strategy; Medicity is proud to be
working with LabCorp to provide this important service
to LabCorp hospital clients.”
About
Medicity
Medicity, Inc. is the premier provider of web- and
web-service-based secure clinical applications serving
over 125 hospitals and large provider organizations.
Its clinical application suite—delivered through
a secure, enterprise physician portal infrastructure—includes
a master patient index, an interface manager, a clinical
patient repository, a unified viewer, clinical messaging,
digital signature, ambulatory ordering, and inpatient
ordering. Medicity creates software that will improve
the quality and safety of patient care. For more information
about Medicity, contact 801.322.4444 or visit www.medicity.com.
About
LabCorp
Laboratory Corporation of America® Holdings is
a pioneer in commercializing new diagnostic technologies
and the first in its industry to embrace genomic testing.
With annual revenues of $2.9 billion in 2003, approximately
23,000 employees nationwide, and more than 220,000
clients, LabCorp offers over 4,400 clinical assays
ranging from blood analyses to HIV and genomic testing.
LabCorp combines its expertise in innovative clinical
testing technology with its Centers of Excellence:
The Center for Molecular Biology and Pathology, in
Research Triangle Park, NC; National Genetics Institute,
Inc. in Los Angeles, CA; ViroMed Laboratories, Inc.
based in Minneapolis, MN; The Center for Esoteric
Testing in Burlington, NC; and DIANON Systems, Inc.
based in Stratford, CT. LabCorp clients include physicians,
government agencies, managed care organizations, hospitals,
clinical labs, and pharmaceutical companies. To learn
more about our growing organization, visit our web
site at www.LabCorp.com.
Additional information about DIANON Systems, Inc.
can be found at www.DIANON.com.
Each of the above
forward-looking statements is subject to change based
on various important factors, including without limitation,
competitive actions in the marketplace and adverse
actions of governmental and other third-party payors.
Actual results could differ materially from those
suggested by these forward-looking statements. Further
information on potential factors that could affect
LabCorp’s financial results is included in the
Company’s Form 10-K for the year ended December
31, 2003, and subsequent SEC filings.
Contact: Brad Hayes
– (336) 436-4602
Shareholder Direct: (800) LAB-0401
Company Information: www.LabCorp.com.
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