The purpose of the program is to provide assistance to organizations with membership that includes healthcare stakeholders and a focus on leadership for optimal use of health IT (including laboratories) in support of patient care and public health (or consortia thereof).
These organizations
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or consortia thereof will be referred to as Lab Interoperability Cooperative or LIC.
Support will be provided to LIC(s) to provide an array of services to hospital laboratories to satisfy Stage 1 meaningful use objective to submit electronic data on reportable laboratory results to public health agencies (hereafter referred to as mu reportable lab results).