How long does it take to launch a pathology lab business and start generating reports? 6 months? 3 months? How about 1 week?!? That’s how long it took one of our clients. Now, obviously more than a week went into the planning and organization of developing their new business, but one week after we signed a…
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…
Pathagility will have a booth at CAP ’11 next month. Hopefully the Dallas weather in September will be a tad bit milder than August (and July for that matter) has been. Whether you are a pathologist, lab manager or a systems vendor; we hope you will drop by and visit with us. We would like…
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 are pleased to be one of the vendors to participate in the April 2011 CAP Today article called “Lab-link vendors – on a mission with ‘mobile’ and more.” Pathagility competes in the Lab-Provider Links market with our ReportPath product. We appreciate CAP Today for allowing us to participate in multiple product market categories and related articles. Here is…
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 a couple of weeks, Pathagility is going to attend the USCAP 2011 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX. Are you? Whether you are associated with a pathology organization or you are a vendor, we would enjoy the opportunity of meeting you there. You can send us an email to info@pathagility.com or send us a DM on…
According to new research from Kalorama Information, the laboratory information systems (LIS) market should grow 6% annually over the next few years from its 2010 level of $800M. The report includes this interesting stat – labor accounts for more than 60% of the cost of producing test results. To drive down the percentage of manual labor needed to support the…
Why would community pathology groups choose a SaaS product over a traditional software package?? 1. TCO When doing a cost comparison between software products, one should factor in computer/server hardware, network, disaster recovery, backup mechanisms, IT support, and third party software to name a few. SaaS products eliminate the capital expenditures and include many of these items…