Automated clinical system to facilitate the process of providing notice of laboratory result publication

A method in a computer environment of managing the communication a laboratory result to a person placing a laboratory order, comprising:

• accessing a laboratory information system data store containing a plurality of laboratory results;
• posting the laboratory results from the laboratory information system data store to an electronic medical records data store;
• and
• selectively identifying a clinical laboratory result requiring a communication to the person placing the laboratory order.

A method in a computing environment for communicating a laboratory result to a person placing a laboratory order, comprising:

• accessing a data store containing a plurality of clinical laboratory results;
• selectively identifying a clinical laboratory result requiring communication to the person placing the laboratory order for the selected clinical laboratory result;
• identifying a first preferred notification method for the selected laboratory result;
• and
• automatically generating a communication of the selected laboratory result by the first preferred method.

A method in a computing environment for communicating a laboratory result to a person placing a laboratory order, comprising:

• accessing a data store containing a plurality of clinical laboratory results;
• selectively identifying a clinical laboratory result requiring communication to the person placing the laboratory order for the selected clinical laboratory result;
• identifying a first preferred notification method for the selected laboratory result from a plurality of notification methods;
• identifying a number of conditions for the preferred method;
• and
• if the conditions are satisfied, automatically generating a communication of the laboratory result by the first preferred method.