Why labs still re-key orders
Independent labs don’t have one workflow. They have many intake ramps onto one LIS highway.
A doctor (or hospital, walk-in patient, etc.) starts an order. The sample is collected at the office or a patient service center. A courier brings tubes to the main lab. Staff accession the specimen — often by typing patient and test details from a fax into the LIS. Instruments run tests; techs release results; the lab sends the report back; billing charges insurance. The painful part is the edges: the same demographics, insurance, ICD codes, and tests get typed more than once.
Clean EMR interfaces help. They don’t erase fax, phone add-ons, incomplete PSC paperwork, or a billing system that lives apart from the LIS. That’s the wedge Lab Bridge is built for.