Electronic Requesting and Reporting of Examinations

Descriptions

NSS has contracted a service/system that will enable electronic requesting and reporting of examinations between clinical laboratories within Scotland and the rest of the UK. The requirement is to replace current paper based processes used to enable referral and reporting of examinations between laboratories. The system will deliver a common user interface that enables end to end connections to many different laboratory information systems within a UK wide network of referral laboratories. There will also be access to a directory of available test repertoires of connected sites. In addition there are requirements of the Blood Sciences modalities. The identified solution will also have in an advanced stage of development, functionality to manage the additional requirements to process information and data exchange for medical microbiology and histopathology and their constituent modalities.