Bridge Creates a Lab Results Patient Portal for Addiction Labs for COVID-19 Testing
- Kirsty Watson
- October 21, 2020
Bridge Patient Portal provides Addiction Labs with a HIPAA compliant way for their patients to view COVID-19 test results.
Dallas, TX – October 21, 2020 – Bridge Patient Portal provides Addiction Labs with a means to quickly provide patients with their COVID-19 test results in a HIPAA compliant way. Addiction Labs lends its laboratory facilities to assist in COVID testing. Currently, patients nationwide are experiencing significant delays in receiving COVID test results, which negates efforts to prevent further infections. One major factor contributing to these delays is ensuring that results are communicated in a HIPAA compliant way.
Once Addiction Labs processes the FDA – EUA approved PCR test, the patient receives an email stating that they can access their results through the portal. Patients can then log in to the lab patient portal to view their results. No PHI (Protected Health Information) is sent via email; patients need to confirm their identity before viewing their results, ensuring HIPAA compliance. Lab results are provided to the patient portal via an HL7 ORU (Observation Result) and populate data within the portal as a positive or negative result.
“Bridge Patient Portal has provided our patients a quick, simplified method to obtain their COVID-19 results during the pandemic,” said Shannon Myers, Addiction Labs Operations director. “Prior to this technology, we had to manually encrypt every test result and send it to the patients individually by email, which could take hours to complete each day. This technology is truly a time saver and ensures our patients get their results as quickly as possible.”
About Bridge Patient Portal
Bridge Patient Portal is an enterprise patient portal and engagement solution that empowers patients with self-service tools to better manage their care. The Bridge Patient Portal platform is client-branded and ideal for health organizations seeking to replace their existing EHR portals or connect to disparate EHR environments with a single, vendor-neutral patient portal platform available on desktop, iOS, and Android. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Bridge Patient Portal has installations in many healthcare’s leading clinics, hospitals, and health systems nationwide. For more information, visit https://www.bridgepatientportal.com/ or call 800-467-2321.
About Addiction Labs
Addiction Labs is a premium toxicology lab owned by American Addiction Centers. Since 2013, Addiction Labs has specialized in providing laboratory services for substance abuse and mental health facilities nationwide. Addiction Labs keeps its partners at the forefront of clinical excellence with its deep expertise, agile operations, and precise, high-end technology that translates to more reliable, insightful, and personalized solutions. For more information, visit https://addictionlabs.com/ or call 615-678-5973 or 800-772-0636.
Media Contact
Kirsty Watson
pr@bridgepatientportal.com
Originally published on 24-7PressRelease: https://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/476563/addiction-labs-selects-bridge-patient-portal-to-provide-patients-with-covid-19-test-results
