Is your pathology lab executing a growth strategy? Have you hired a sales person or team to grow your specimen count? We talk to pathology groups daily that are at some point in the process of developing or executing a sales strategy. They are either 1) attempting to grow their specimen count or 2) defending against larger laboratories with…
Wow! 2011 was a great year for Pathagility with the addition of some great new clients and some exciting projects with our existing customer base. We’ve been heads down in delivery mode. As we turn our attention to 2012, we want to share some of the client experiences we’ve had over the past several months. There…
If you are a pathology group or laboratory, how do your referring physicians want to receive report information? Fax? Web Portal? EMR interface?The answer is something along the lines of…”the way they ask for it, when they ask for it!” Right? To compete against the mega, commercial labs, pathology report distribution flexibility is essential. Not only is it…
We received a call from one of our lab customers requesting a results only interface for one of their referring physicians. The referring physician has sent only a small volume of cases to the lab, and the cost from the EMR vendor alone would make the cost of an interface unjustifiable. The referring physician group…
In the March issue of CAP Today, Karen L. Wagner did an article on the changing middleware landscape called Middleware to “littleware”: vendors catering to smaller labs. She notes three main forces behind the changes in this market in the past two years… 1. ARRA 2. Increased EHR adoption 3. Middleware vendors start catering to smaller/physician…
Last week I attended a formal, non-Pathagility related event where we were seated randomly with individuals with varying backgrounds. Among the group at my table was an investment broker, a restaurant chain owner, a non-profit director, and clinician at a pediatric practice. The clinician (Kathy – for the sake of this post) and I were seated next to one another, and after discussing…
Many pathology labs we talk with have purchased, developed and deployed FileMaker Pro database lab systems. This seems even more true in smaller independent and hospital labs due to cost and ease of deployment factors. We would like to hear from those of you that utilize FileMaker Pro. Here are a few questions for you… Overall, are…
For Christmas, Santa brought me an iPad (which I thought was very cool by the way!) I’ve been living vicariously through friends and business associates who were early adopters. Now that I have one and it is fully integrated into my daily life, I’ve started picturing how a device like this might be useful in the…
Normally we stay away from posts that are this Pathagility product focused, but every once in a while we just can’t help ourselves! We are proud of our ReportPath product/service and continue to recognize lots of application for it. ReportPath provides pathology laboratories and healthcare providers an integrated, web-based solution for storing, managing and distributing report data without purchasing a new LIS. Referring physicians have secure…
More than 140,000 industry professionals attended the CES11 in Las Vegas last week. Following up on our post Top gadgets at CES 2011 and impact on healthcare, check out this slide show via HealthcareITNews called Healthcare gadgets at CES11. The slideshow shows 5 healthcare gadgets featured last week and here’s a summary… 1. digital microscope 2. …