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Title
Use of Direct for the Secure Transmission of Laboratory Test Results
Memo #
14-05-CLIA
Posting Date
2013-11-08
Fiscal Year
2014
Title
Direct: A simple, secure, scalable, standards based way to send authenticated, encrypted health information directly to known, trusted recipients over the Internet.
• Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) Requirements: The laboratory must have an adequate manual or electronic system(s) in place to ensure test results and other patient-specific data are accurately and reliably sent from the point of data entry (whether interfaced or entered manually) to final report destination, in a timely manner (42 CFR §493.1291(a)).
• CLIA guidance: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) considers that laboratories utilizing the Direct transport protocols and fully supporting the Direct Implementation Guide for Delivery Notification requirements would meet the CLIA regulations for an adequate electronic system for sending laboratory test results to the final report destination as specified in 42 CFR §493.1291(a).
• Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) Requirements: The laboratory must have an adequate manual or electronic system(s) in place to ensure test results and other patient-specific data are accurately and reliably sent from the point of data entry (whether interfaced or entered manually) to final report destination, in a timely manner (42 CFR §493.1291(a)).
• CLIA guidance: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) considers that laboratories utilizing the Direct transport protocols and fully supporting the Direct Implementation Guide for Delivery Notification requirements would meet the CLIA regulations for an adequate electronic system for sending laboratory test results to the final report destination as specified in 42 CFR §493.1291(a).