Quest Diagnostics to Showcase Its Award-Winning Healthcare IT Connectivity Solutions at HIMSS13

NEW ORLEANS, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world's leading provider of diagnostic information services, is presenting its award-winning healthcare information technology (HIT) connectivity solutions at HIMSS13. Quest Diagnostics offers the broadest access to diagnostic information services through its network of laboratories and through its HIT network which connects acute and ambulatory environments, spans more than 310,000 physicians in over 95,000 offices and is interoperable with 15,000 EMR connections with more than 200 vendors.

Advanced healthcare IT solutions are critical to meet the demands of health systems as stakeholders seek to meaningfully improve healthcare, drive efficiency, and accelerate interoperability among acute and ambulatory environments. Quest Diagnostics HIT connectivity solutions support multiple healthcare stakeholders, integrate platforms, and optimize workflows strategically across health systems. The result is a connected healthcare system with access to critical diagnostic insights through an open, compatible secure network.

"Our HIT platform was developed to provide healthcare professionals with a comprehensive suite of interoperable HIT solutions and programs that support informed decision making, allowing users to be smart, synchronized and connected," said Philip S. Present, Vice President and General Manager, Care360 Products. "With Quest Diagnostics' leadership in the delivery of large-scale clinical information, complete with Six Sigma quality and security, we are committed to putting knowledge in the hands of the providers, the patient, payers and their communities of care."

The key pillars of Quest Diagnostic's connectivity platforms are being showcased at the HIMSS 2013 Conference this week in New Orleans at booth #3927, where the company's HIT executives and healthcare thought-leaders will share the company's HIT solutions that address the top priorities of CIOs and CFOs: health system efficiency and enhanced connectivity.

Quest Diagnostics executives are showcasing the following HIT tools:

Tools for ACOs and Physician-to-Hospital Connectivity:

    --  Care360®: More than 1.2 million health care providers, 310,000
        physicians in 95,000 physician offices use the Care360 platform for fast
        and easy access to patient health information through Care360 Lab Orders
        and Results, ePrescribing and Care360 Electronic Health Records (EHR).
        Our next generation of connectivity will expand the technologies for
        order decision support, enhanced mobility, interoperability, and
        condition-based views.
        --  Care360® EHR: Rated Black Book's #1 Top EHR vendor for 2-5
            physician group practices for 2013, Care360 EHR is a cloud-based
            solution that allows physicians to transition key activities from
            paper to electronic management in a stepwise approach. With a wide
            range of capabilities, including electronic lab order management,
            clinical messaging, ePrescribing, clinical documentation tools,
            document management and multi-system interoperability, Care360 EHR
            accelerates adoption and has the features physicians can utilize
            anytime, anywhere via iPhone® and other mobile devices, as well as
            the next generation of iPad® tablets.
        --  Care360® Data Exchange: This structured, secure and robust data
            exchange connects acute and ambulatory care settings - helping to
            bridge the gap between inpatient and outpatient worlds and between
            PCPs and specialists. The Care360 platform allows the exchange of
            lab histories, patient health histories, population management
            reports, clinical decision support and direct secure messaging.
            Care360 Data Exchange helps providers quickly build a health care
            platform for better care coordination with the large network of
            community physicians on the Care360 platform.

Enterprise Business Intelligence and Process Management Tools:

    --  ChartMaxx® ECM: The next generation of ChartMaxx® includes Business
        Process Management (BPM) tools that incorporate award-winning software
        with Appian, the market leader in modern  software.  ChartMaxx ECM
        powered by Appian BPM will make data actionable with proactive alerts,
        dynamic dashboards, expanded views of patient and hospital data, and
        quick development of mobile apps to improve workflows. This eight-time
        'Best in KLAS' Document Management and Imaging (DMI) product and the
        inclusion of the Enterprise Content Management solution enables
        healthcare organizations to see immediate process improvements that
        enhance performance results through the efficient collection, analysis
        and use of clinical, financial and administrative information including
        electronic documents and eForms.  ChartMaxx® has been implemented in
        more than 140 hospitals and integrated healthcare delivery networks
        capturing unstructured data to fill in the content gaps throughout the
        enterprise, integrating with enterprise hospital EHRs, and automating
        workflows.

Patient Engagement Tools:

    --  Gazelle®: Winner of a 2012 CIO 100 Award, Gazelle is a mobile health
        application that empowers the patient to see, store and share his or her
        personal health information. Patients can store various healthcare
        providers' names and contact information, immunization records and
        medical records. In addition, patients can make an appointment, monitor
        blood pressure and weight, store vital health stats, allergies to foods
        or medications and the names and numbers of prescriptions and their
        dosages.

HCIT Vendor-to-Vendor Interoperability:

    --  Quest Diagnostics Health IT Quality Solutions(TM): Through this quality
        certification program, Quest Diagnostics supports quality EHR technology
        vendors to provide assurance to physicians that their choice of a
        qualified-certified EHR solution will facilitate effective laboratory
        data interoperability while meeting their clinical and business needs.
        To date, 30 EHR solutions have met the company's rigorous standards for
        certification in the Program's Gold and Silver tiers.
    --  Care360® Seamless Integration With Large HIT Systems and Vendors:
        Care360 has 15,000 EMR connections with 200 vendors and is expanding
        integration to major enterprise HIT systems and health information
        exchanges. ChartMaxx® uses a combination of HL7, Epic API and other
        functionality to provide integration points within EpicCare Inpatient,
        EpicCare Ambulatory, Prelude/ADT, Resolute Hospital Billing, Resolute
        Professional Billing and other systems including EpicWeb. The end result
        is seamless integration that provides users with the ability to access a
        wide variety of documents and information including scanned information
        such as patient ID, insurance cards and consent forms from directly
        within Epic screens.
    --  Laboratory Information System Interface: Quest Diagnostics can implement
        standard reference laboratory interfaces developed to align with all of
        the major laboratory information systems (LIS), allowing systems to get
        a bi-directional interface implemented faster.

Tools to Facilitate Diagnostics Usage:

    --  IntelliTest Manager(TM): This flexible online tool allows users to
        access new test information, test updates and changes based on their
        specific account utilization over the last 12 months. Users can also
        filter searches based on test utilization, helping to minimize the
        challenge of keeping up with changing test information.
    --  Quest Diagnostics Joint Directory of Services:  A customized online
        Joint Directory of Services (JDOS(TM)) application that helps clients
        look up test codes, CPT codes, specimen requirements, reference ranges
        and clinical usage information to assist them in choosing the right
        test(s) for their patients. This service can be provided via the Web,
        printed book or CD-ROM.

For more information on Quest Diagnostics' HIT Connectivity Solutions to stay informed, synchronized and connected, visit the Quest Diagnostics Healthcare IT Theatre in Booth #3927 at HIMSS 2013 (http://care360.questdiagnostics.com/himss.cfm) or visit http://care360.com/pr.

About Quest Diagnostics
Quest Diagnostics is the world's leading provider of diagnostic information services that patients and doctors need to make better healthcare decisions. The company offers the broadest access to diagnostic information services through its network of laboratories and patient service centers, and provides interpretive consultation through its extensive medical and scientific staff. Quest Diagnostics is a pioneer in developing innovative diagnostic tests and advanced healthcare information technology solutions that help improve patient care. Additional information is available at QuestDiagnostics.com. Follow us at Facebook.com/QuestDiagnostics and Twitter.com/QuestDX.

About Quest Diagnostics Healthcare IT Connectivity Solutions
With more than 1.2 million providers, 310,000 physicians in over 95,000 locations, the Care360® network can easily connect health systems to affiliated physicians in the community or across the country. With a wide range of capabilities including electronic health records, lab order management, clinical messaging, ePrescribing, clinical documentation tools, document management and multi-system interoperability, clinical decision support, and population health management reports, Care360 is web-based with the features that physicians want to access key patient information, anytime, anywhere via the iPhone(®), iPad(®) and other mobile devices. As a demonstration of commitment to empowering better health care, in 2012 Quest Diagnostics donated $10.5 million in grants to help doctors become connected through the Care360 Electronic Health Record. For more information, visit www.Care360.com.

Quest Diagnostic Contacts:
Media: Davette Shorter, Director of Integrated Marketing and Communications and Care360 Products at 551-697-1463

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