Unified Laboratory and Information System of Moscow

History

2023: System Launch

In January 2023, the introduction of a unified laboratory and information system (LIS) began in Moscow hospitals. She transmits the test results to EMIAS.

As Anastasia Rakova, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Social Development, explained, LIS is a completely domestic development that allows you to automate all laboratory research processes and translate documentation into electronic form.

LIS transmits test results to EMIAS

The project will allow combining databases with the results of all laboratory studies into a single digital environment. Thanks to this, now not only doctors, but also laboratory service employees have access to the dynamics of key patient health indicators, even if a person has previously passed tests in another hospital, she said.

When a hospital doctor forms a referral for laboratory research at EMIAS, the application is automatically loaded into a single laboratory information system. After taking the biomaterial from the patient, an individual barcode is assigned to each sample. In the laboratory, test tubes are installed in analyzers, which read the barcode and transmit the results of the studies in electronic form to the LIS. After automatic or manual validation, they are loaded into the EMIAS and become available in the electronic medical record of an inpatient to all doctors of the medical institution.

It is noted that LIS can work with all types of studies, except for cytological and histological ones. For pathomorphological laboratories of hospitals, the city has introduced a separate technical solution - the Labfors information system.

According to Anastasia Rakova, in January 2023, LIS works in six hospitals in Moscow, and in February it was planned to connect another 10 institutions. By the end of 2024, they want to introduce the system in the laboratories of all metropolitan hospitals.^[1]

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