The 2010 LIS market estimates are valued at $800 million. With growing pressures to cut costs, increase efficiencies and quality of care, and report test results in real time, labs must plan for more sophisticated LIS if they wish to remain competitive, Kalorama Information experts said in the report. There is also a growing need to interface healthcare instruments and other information systems, including electronic medical records.
Read the news release about laboratory information systems.
Read other coverage about healthcare IT:
– Coriell Institute for Medical Research, OSU Medical Center Partner to Add Genomic Info into EMRs
– Virtual Reality Projected to be Viable Resource in Healthcare
– 5 Steps Toward Successfully Implemented Computerized Physician Order Entry
