Internal Medicine
What is most important for the clinician in choosing a clinical diagnostic lab? The answer, as usual, lies with your patient.
Patients today obviously want fast, accurate results. Further, today’s patients require results independent of the standard commercial laboratory. A lab where their clinical specimens are not shipped from state-to-state in order to cut costs through parsing facilities.
MedLab, Chicago’s neighborhood lab. We are dedicated to the community and the medical patients of the Chicago area. All over Illinois and Indiana our clients have trusted us with their diagnostic testing for over 15 years.
Our laboratory
- Diagnostic testing for patients with undefined symptoms and complaints
- Coordination of patient information provided by surgeons and other laboratories
- Preventive screening services for health maintenance, including: general health profiles, pap smear analysis, cholesterol screening, and cardiac assessments
- Collaborative care for patients who are home-bound with chronic medical illnesses, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, and emphysema
specializes it’s services for Internists a variety of ways:
Service
MedLab Chicago prides itself on its service to physicians, institutions and patients alike. Queries are answered courteously and reliably. Testing is performed accurately and swiftly. At Medlab, you can expect a degree of personalized service and attention that’s not available elsewhere. The MedLab philosophy is based on transparency of our operations. To this end, MedLab provides full access to our quality control records as well as the results of our randomized proficiency testing. Call or stop in to MedLab today for a full tour of our laboratory facility.
House Calls
Medlab’s qualified and compassionate staff is ready to meet the needs of homebound patients. Our team of phlebotomists, supervised by experienced managers, has the resources to serve the broadest range of client needs. Each phlebotomist is equipped with cellphone so they can be located and dispatched on a moments notice if necessary. All of our phlebotomists have performed a minimum of 500 venipunctures.
Patient Service Centers
To better serve our physicians and their patients, Medlab Laboratory operates blood drawing facilities at our Northside Chicago location. There is little or no wait time when you visit our Chicago facility for blood draws.
Phlebotomy
Highly qualified phlebotomists are on Medlabs staff to assure every patient a timely and positive experience when drawing their blood for diagnostic purposes. Our well organized operations and logistics system allows Medlab to reliably service our service centers and to consistently meet or exceed the expectations of our contracts (our superior performance has helped Medlab Inc become a favored service provider to Visiting Nurse Service (VNS) in Dupage and Cook County). Our superb management will allow MedLab to effortlessly expand our phlebotomy department as we continue to grow.Our coverage area is vast and we now cover all Illinois and Indiana and parts of Missouri and Kentucky. Medlab is the only lab with such a vast coverage area. We provide excellent laboratory services for patients in all these states and are rapidly growing our reach into other states across the country.
Courier Service
Medlab’s guarantee specimen integrity by ensuring the efficient retrieval of patient specimens. We work with vendors who Utilize state-of-the-art sample tracking systems Medlab Medical Laboratory is capable of scheduling pickup and delivery to accommodate virtually any pickup requirements.
Client Services
MedLab Client Services department is operated by a team of professionals, and led by a dedicated supervisor with more than twenty-years in the client services field. The department is fully operational 10 hours a day, 5 days a week. We place the needs of each individual patient first We emphasize courtesy, compassion and professional expertise We strive to optimize the accuracy of testing and our promptness of service
Laboratory Results Delivery
Flexible reporting options provide the delivery assurance you need, when you need them. We offer multiple means of report delivery including:
- Sample pickup Service available for daily delivery
- Customized
- Immediate Remote Fax
- Online Laboratory Management System
- Integration of our laboratory information system (LIMS) with your EMR or EHR
Patient Health Information
MedLab Clinical Laboratory is fully committed to compliance with all HIPAA privacy, security, and electronic information requirements.
MedLab Clinical Laboratory has always maintained policies and procedures to ensure compliance with patient confidentiality requirements including MedLab’s own high standards regarding patient confidentiality. HIPAA compliance efforts involve formal inventory, analysis, updating, and documentation of all systems and procedures covered by the several HIPAA regulations.
MedLab Clinical Laboratory commits that all aspects of its services will be compliant with HIPAA requirements prior to each HIPAA effective date with sufficient time permitted for our clients to confirm compliance. This is particularly important since both MedLab and our clients are “covered entities” under HIPAA that each has independent compliance responsibilities. MedLab will ensure that all aspects of its services comply with HIPAA to the extent independent HIPAA compliance by MedLab is possible. Additionally, all services provided by MedLab will be done in a manner that enables HIPAA compliance by our clients to the extent the services involve joint compliance requirements or independent requirements applicable to our clients as “covered entities”. Obviously, MedLab can not assure that individual clients will meet their independent responsibilities under HIPAA; however, we are committed to sharing information and coordinating efforts towards the goal that our clients will be fully compliant with HIPAA.
All systems will comply with HIPAA requirements as to independent performance or capability of the system, including, but not limited to functionality, security, privacy and encryption.
If you have any questions about the HIPAA compliance activities of MedLab Clinical Laboratory, contact our customer service representatives.
Cardiology
MedLab has an exceptional interest in cardiovascular diagnostics. People are becoming increasingly sedentary due to technological advances. Physical inactivity along with excess intake of high calorie, low nutrition foods are responsible for the epidemic of obesity and increased risk of cardiovascular disease and death. Obesity and a sedentary workplace has an enormous impact on the work environment. Our laboratory employees alone are reason enough to implement a workplace wellness program. We encourage healthy eating, exercise and stress reduction and freely share this program with our physician clients and their staff.
MedLab laboratory boasts a state-of-the-art facility capable of providing advanced laboratory testing for our cardiology patients. Our analyses include comparisons of adiposity, insulin sensitivity, HDL subparticles and function, markers of inflammation and adipokines in blood, with additional consideration for minorities and age/hormonal interactions.
Today, newer diagnostic tests are key to identifying and successfully treating the specific causes for both heart attack and stroke. MedLab’s advanced risk markers will assist your cardiac clinic in making affirmative diagnosis and effective patient treatment programs. Partner with MedLab today and provide your patients with progressive clinical laboratory diagnostics!
Opthalmology
n the fast-paced world of Ophthalmology, most clinicians do not have the time to track their orbital specimens and assure they are being analyzed by a laboratory with ophthalmic expertise.
Enter MedLab – we partner with the ophthalmology office to assure your specimens are receiving exceptional care and review.
A variety of unusual and unique pathology affect the eye and surrounding tissues. General laboratories do not have the experience in interpreting lesions of the eye and ocular adnexa (conjunctiva, eyelid, lacrimal system, and orbit). MedLab affiliated pathologists are board-certified in anatomic pathology, dermatopathology, and ophthalmology, providing the specialized training and expertise required for your diagnosis.
Ocular Diagnostics
Gross and histology of tissues that need special handling
Sebaceous cell carcinoma of the eyelid
Eyelid tumors, benign and malignant
Conjunctival pigmented lesions
Corneal disease
Corneal transplant
DSEK evaluation
Acanthamoeba
HSV 1,2 analysis
Intraocular tumors, such as retinoblastoma and uveal melanoma
Enucleation
Glaucoma
Fine needle biopsy
Temporal artery biopsy
Specialized Services
Special histological stains
Immunohistochemistry
Immunofluorescence
Rapid turn around time
Coordination of all ancillary testing and diagnostic reporting
Contact MedLab today and discover how our specialized services can help take your ophthalmology practice to the next level.