The Pathagility team has been hard at work to keep up with the demands of clinician’s and labs. Improvements in speed, user experience and new features highlight the latest version of our web-based software. Our current users will not skip a beat with enhancements to our case entry screen and process. • Simplified screens– streamline…
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…
The text book answer: the ability of a system to handle a growing amount of work in a capable manner. The real world answer: the ability to store more data, handle more users, distribute more information, change as business requires, and do it all without interruption. The questions every new, or growing, pathology lab should…
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…
We were pleased to welcome Pathology Associates (Lufkin, TX) as a new Pathagility client earlier this month, and we are also pleased to report that the migration from their previous LIS to Pathagility’s web-based LIS (WorkPath) was extremely smooth. In fact, you may not believe the turnaround time if we told you:) Be looking for a case study…
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…
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…
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…