eSanté-LABO Project
Sharing and exchanging laboratory analysis reportsThe eSanté–LABO project was launched in early 2010. The project seeks to improve patient care, by making the results of previous laboratory analyses readily available, and reduce potentially unnecessary examinations. The project therefore fits with the approach and objectives of Luxembourg's eSanté programme.
From a technical point of view, the project aims to evaluate the existing LABO application to meet the changing needs of users, while covering current requirements. The main aims of these changes are to incorporate the biology report exchange service into the future national eSanté platform, add report sharing features and intensify standardisation efforts:
- creation of an examination history for each patient as part of the future electronic patient healthcare record;
- use of a common framework for expressing the results of reports, based on the internationally recognised LOINC coding system;
- modernisation of the exchange of reports between laboratories and prescribers;
- involvement of all laboratories to populate the history.
In addition to the current functionality of providing encrypted analysis results to the prescribing physician and other medical recipients known at the time of prescription, the application will include a secure history of results, accessible in principle to all physicians. However, access to the history will be subject to the patient's consent, the details of which remain to be defined within the framework of the shared patient health record.
Where possible, results in reports will be standardised using the international LOINC and HL7 nomenclature in order to standardise the terminology and conventions used to express results and to gradually make test results from different sources comparable for temporal analyses.
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