I think our country needs a central repository for lab orders, imaging orders and prescription orders

[Lemon Bars]

The staff at our clinic is wasting an incredible amount of time rerouting prescriptions from one pharmacy to another because patients suddenly decide they want to pick up their prescriptions from X pharmacy instead of their usual Y pharmacy. Also, our electronic health records system will only interface with Lab Corp, but many patients prefer to use Quest Labs. Has any company ever attempted to create a central database for lab orders, imaging orders and prescription orders, so that a patient can go to the lab/diagnostic center/pharmacy of their choice and then have that business access the physician's order from the central database?

[lpn164]

That would be lovely. However insurance is the controller of who and where a patient can go. Typically it seems the harder they make it for the patient the more money they get. Sad but true.

[AutumnDraidean]

We would need medicare for all to make this work. As well as a backup system of some kind. It would be fantastic though!