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Anatomic Pathology: New Drivers Pushing Beyond Cloud to SaaS Laboratory Information Systems

Anatomic Pathology: New Drivers Pushing Beyond Cloud to SaaS Laboratory Information Systems

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FREE WHITE PAPER | 18 Pages

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Deciding how to upgrade your legacy laboratory information system (LIS)?

Anatomic pathology laboratory leaders are faced with hard decisions and conflicts over whether to keep their on-premises legacy laboratory information system (LIS), move to a hybrid model, or step up to a full SaaS (software as a service) LIS offering. 

One compelling reason, among others, that labs do consider LIS alternatives is the difficulty of managing and keeping up with necessary software updates, security, sizing, and other information-technology needs of their current systems. 

This white paper will assist pathology leaders in gaining a complete understanding of how a true SaaS LIS can overcome today’s pathology laboratory challenges while making key points to include in your organization’s internal cloud discussions. In addition, you’ll walk away with a better understanding of where your pathology laboratory stands with respect to its own cloud journey. 

 

Table of Contents—Chapters at a glance

\art 1: Key Differences Between Cloud-Hosted LIS and SaaS LIS

As cloud and software as a service (SaaS) models are not an uncommon software delivery model, the majority of pathology laboratory professionals are unaware of the actual differences between a cloud-hosted laboratory information system (LIS) versus a SaaS LIS. Learn the key differentiators.

Part 2: Three Business Objectives Realized Through SaaS LIS Technology 

There are many opportunities with a SaaS LIS. Facilitate team discussion by starting with your pathology laboratory’s needs in these three business objectives that are realized by migrating to SaaS.

Part 3: Essential Steps for Making the Move to a SaaS Laboratory Information System 

As pathology laboratories and practices better understand the advantages of moving from an on-premises LIS to a SaaS LIS, more will choose to migrate their existing setups to systems that have reduced complexity with new capabilities that help them meet the requirements of ever-evolving payment and regulatory structures and changing data management needs. Migrating to a SaaS LIS comes with many questions. Learn four essential steps and the top 10 questions to ask a vendor.

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Prioritizing a Digitization Project in Your Clinical Laboratory: Where, How, and Why Other Labs Made Changes

Prioritizing a Digitization Project in Your Clinical Laboratory: Where, How, and Why Other Labs Made Changes

Free White Paper - Repurposing your lab's leftover COVID-19 samples

FREE WHITE PAPER

Published October 6, 2021

Author: Liz Carey

Advisor: Maureen Harte, MT(ASCP)

Produced in Partnership With:

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How do you implement a digitization project in your lab? Learn from the success of two organizations.

Produced in partnership with Kapios

In clinical laboratory inspections, instrument maintenance and service visit documentation rank among common deficiencies cited by The Joint Commission, the College of American Pathologists (CAP), COLA, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). While a majority of the time lab techs are diligent about the required maintenance and responsibilities of laboratory equipment, instruments, and analytical systems, the checkoffs are often left to finish later.

No one will dispute that accuracy in clinical lab test result reporting and precision of the total testing process stand paramount in providing quality laboratory services. Those who know the lab environment well would also probably acknowledge that an essential piece of a lab’s defensibility in a challenge is showing proper documentation of laboratory instrument maintenance logs and other required records.

Unfortunately, the reality is such that laboratory managers must run through miles of paper trails looking for evidence of regulatory compliant records of instrument maintenance and other checks.

The goal of this white paper is to demonstrate how some clinical lab directors and technical supervisors sought to relieve the unnecessary labor and hazards in one of the most common analog-world bottlenecks—and were successful. This white paper also identifies three commonly overlooked existing resources for taking the first steps to streamline instrument checks and documentation in the lab today.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Framing a Path to Digitization as Part of the Clinical Laboratory Quality Control Plan

Whether or not large-scale digital transformation of the clinical laboratory is on the immediate horizon or further in the distance, how does the conversion to digitization of lab equipment management processes materialize?

Part 2: Small-scale Digitization Projects: Where, How, and Why Other Labs Made Changes

Some hospital and health system laboratories have transitioned to paperless systems for projects and jobs such as quality assurance (QA) monitors, online quality control (QC) reviews, remote temperature monitoring, and cloud-based document management. Lima Memorial Health System in Lima, Ohio, is one such hospital laboratory operation.

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