As a laboratory executive, you are in charge of ensuring your lab operations including lab staffing, testing, and reporting run smoothly and deliver the best results to your referring physicians and groups. In today’s healthcare world, the patient experience is top of mind and if one system across your lab tech stack isn’t holding…
Your lab is growing and the demand on your staff to print reports and fax is taking up more of their time. You don’t want to change your workflow process because everyone knows what is expected of them and they are comfortable working with your current LIS. You would like to electronically deliver reports and…
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…
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…
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…