“This month, the CMS sought to change the status quo of legal constraints and folkloric practices involving health information exchange between laboratories and providers.
On March 1, when it released its 18-page guidance to interpreting the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments, also known as CLIA, the CMS sought to clarify under what circumstances electronic data from lab test results could move back to providers, directly to patients, or to and through health information exchanges.”
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Joseph Conn, Modern Healthcare, 12 March 2010
