Lab Orders – Results

About this Use Case

MiHIN’s Statewide Lab Orders-Results Use Case enhances provider workflows by enabling the electronic exchange of lab results for tests performed at the point of care. Results can be shared with all members of a patient’s active care team in a standardized ORU message format, supporting clinical decision-making, trending analyses, medication management, and other critical activities.

The use case also allows healthcare professionals to electronically submit demographic and test order information to the State Bureau of Laboratories and receive results quickly. In certain situations, specimens are sent to Michigan’s Bureau of Laboratories with urgent requests for results. Prompt processing of these requests is essential, especially for public health departments monitoring and tracking potential pandemics and epidemics.

Audience: Any local health department, physician’s office, laboratory, or healthcare facility.