Health IT Standard eDOS integrates EHR Interoperability and Savings

A health information technology standard for lab tests could make better the EHR interoperability and decrease costs.

Officials from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA) claim that a lesser-known health IT standard for ordering laboratory tests and services both enables EHR interoperability and the capability to generate cost savings.

The Laboratory Test Compendium Framework established by Health Level Seven International (HL7) involves an electronic Directory of Service (eDOS). The standards developing organization has iterated on the framework over the some past years with the support of the ONC Standards & Interoperability Framework.

In the year of 2015, HL7 issued a guide for implementing the framework and the eDOS service. Now, ONC and ACLA are touting the framework’s potential to make lab test ordering more efficient and less expensive.