Quest Diagnostics, Surescripts create lab/prescription exchange

March 9, 2010, 11:01 am by Healthcare IT News

Quest Diagnostics, the Madison, N.J.-based provider of clinical laboratory services, and Surescripts, of Alexandria, Va. and St. Paul, Minn., which operates the country’s largest electronic prescribing network, will collaborate on an integrated service meant to make lab and pharmacy data more easily accessible to doctors and clinicians.

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