Utilizing BioSense Integrator Technology for Electronic Laboratory Results Reporting

As part of CHRISTUS Health's participation in the CDC BioSense project, they implemented the BioSense Integrator solution, an enterprise integration engine to receive, format, and transmit via PHINMS specific clinical information of interest to public health. Included in the BioSense HL7 feeds are microbiology results from their Meditech Laboratory Information system.

The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) was interested in leveraging the BioSense Integrator technology at CHRISTUS to provide microbiology results for reportable organisms, but Electronic Laboratory Results (ELR) must contain identifiable information in order to be tracked appropriately, and be generated in a different format than the BioSense data.

CHRISTUS and SAIC, in collaboration with the CDC and Texas DSHS, engaged in a project to utilize the BioSense Integrator technology to generate and securely transmit both BioSense Laboratory results and ELR reports to Texas DSHS automatically from a single inbound Laboratory data feed. By leveraging the infrastructure and tools in place for BioSense, CHRISTUS was able to respond quickly and cost effectively to the needs of Texas DSHS and improve the quality and timeliness of their infectious disease reporting.