ARUP Direct™

Total Outreach Solution

MD Bridge™: physician connectivity solution

Transform your laboratory outreach program.
Let ARUP Laboratories' IT solutions pave the way.

ARUP MD Bridge connects your lab to the broadest possible spectrum of users, from individual laboratories doing local outreach to regional and national laboratory networks with multiple labs serving thousands of clients. With a proven ROI, ARUP MD Bridge will help you outperform the competition and succeed in making your laboratory-outreach program a core business strategy.

Features

  • Multi-stage Electronic Orders

    Deliver as much as 80+ percent of outreach orders to your LIS electronically using ARUP MD Bridge.

    • Configurable workflows allow orders to be started by the clinician and completed by one or more support staff or at the lab’s patient-service center.
    • Fully enabled electronic ordering from EMRs with ARUP MD Bridge.
    • Auto-pricing support for requisitions, ABNs, and specimen labels.
    • Optional integrated real-time eligibility checking.
  • Optional Capabilities and Deployment Options

    Deploy ARUP MD Bridge as an ASP or lab-hosted solution.

    • Handheld and touch-screen options.
    • Specialized Patient Service Center module.
    • Optional support for radiology and other procedures.
    • Integrated e-prescribing with best-of-breed partners.
    • Mobile add-on module for use with the Apple iPhone® and iPod touch®.
      (iPhone and iPod touch are registered trademarks of Apple, Inc.)
  • Enhanced Lab Reporting

    ARUP MD Bridge includes a sophisticated results-forwarding engine that can support specialized results-delivery workflows configurable by site and user preferences.

    • Customized report formats, including support for combined clinical and AP reports.
    • Delivery of partials, finals, and critical/abnormal results according to individual physician preferences.
    • PDF and embedded micrograph support.
    • True cumulatives—in-patient/out-patient/outreach results.
    • Optional onboard disease-risk assessments.
    • Multiple modes for releasing results to patients/PHRs.

Your Challenge Our Solution Benefits to Your Lab
Reducing operational inefficiencies and getting paid for the tests you perform. ARUP MD Bridge
The premier office-connectivity solution, unrivaled for its functionality, scalability, and configurability. 		Reduce medical necessity write-offs, accelerate collections, increase operational efficiency, and improve patient care.
Improving the patient experience. Patient Service Center (PSC)
Specifically engineered solution for phlebotomy-draw centers that extends the clean-order benefits of Lab OuterWare into the PSC and ensures efficient workflow management. 		Reduce patient wait times and increase customer satisfaction.
Improving revenue-cycle management by addressing eligibility issues before the order gets to the billing system. Real-Time Eligibility Checking Automated
Real-time checks determine current eligibility for services as part of the preanalytic workflow.		 Reduce collection problems at the back-end by getting better information at the point of order creation. Get advanced notice of potential problems so you can address them in a timely manner.
Providing an integrated
e-prescribing solution.		 Integrated Best-of-Breed
E-Prescribing
ARUP offers several options for integrated e-prescribing workflow using best-of-breed partners in the space.		 Choose an e-prescribing partner that works best for your physician market. Provide truly seamless workflow integration between the systems that enhances patient care.
Increasing efficiency and differentiating your service offering with specialized workflow support for multiple disciplines. Anatomic Pathology
Specialized support for AP that includes order entry with body-mass diagrams, sophisticated image management, customized reports formats, and combined clinical AP reports.

Radiology
Generates orders for digital imaging procedures, displays transcription results, and provides customized requisitions.		 Extend the benefits of clean electronic orders to other disciplines, and deliver highly customized reports that combine clinical and AP with support for images.
Communicating with customers more effectively. Lab-Client InfoLink
An integrated-issues inbox that provides lab personnel a nonintrusive alternative to phone calls and other traditional methods of communicating with customers.		 Spend less time on the phone waiting for answers and information and more time on laboratory operations.

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