The service, called Quest Lab Stewardship, is embedded into health systems' electronic health record systems to combine data from disparate hospitals' records. For example, the service can decipher whether a patient has already received a certain test — information that can be buried within an EHR — with the goal of cutting out unnecessary testing.Clamping down on the volume of unnecessary tests ordered could reduce spending.
Cutting out unneeded tests can also help speed up doctors' operations. While many hospitals have put"test utilization management" programs in place to cut down on the number of lab tests ordered, many of these systems require data to be uploaded manually. However, Quest Lab Stewardship cuts out the middleman and
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