Results Distribution

LIPIX is built on a flexible and powerful integration infrastructure from Intersystems, Inc. This infrastructure enables LIPIX to provide participating organizations with the ability to efficiently distribute clinical information to designated physician providers. Typically, organizations choose to distribute laboratory results, radiology reports, or discharge summaries to the primary care or relevant caregivers of patients seen at their facilities. A discharge event from an acute care environment will trigger an automatic distribution of this info to the relevant providers identified during the acute hospitalization or to a provided identified via self-assignment. Information is transmitted via one of the following three pre-selected options:

• Direct HL7 feeds into a practice's ambulatory electronic medical record system
• Email notification with secure access to the LIPIX system
• Automated fax

Besides helping to improve the care of their patients, organizations also realize the following key benefits:

• Decrease in the total cost of distributing data to outpatient providers
• Improvement in the hospital-practitioner allegiance or "bonding" by improving the services provided to private physician practices and groups. This occurs due to the following:

• reduction in the time it takes for the transmission of data to outpatient physicians
• improvement in the accuracy of data transmitted to outpatient physicians
• decrease in the variability of the transmission process

In addition to provider and patient benefits, the healthcare system as a whole will benefit from the efficiencies by the more effective distribution of and access to important clinical data. Cost savings will accrue secondary to the following:

• Decrease in costs associated with overuse of healthcare services, such as redundant diagnostic procedures
• Decrease in unnecessary follow-up visits
• Decrease in costly medical errors and adverse events