Specimen Receiving Feature
Pathagility has launched a new feature to integrate the specimen receiving process into the lab’s LIS workflow. Receiving in Workpath allows your samples to…
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How Does Your Lab Add Value to Patient Care?
How many times have you heard this mantra in the past few months: “the patient is now at the center of our business model.”…
New Tech Allows PGx Labs to Provide The Most Common & Standard File (VCF) For Interpretation
Pathagility’s LIMS and reporting solution provides lab executives with a central laboratory reporting solution that will adapt across any type of test, device or laboratory…
What to Consider When Making a LIMS Change at Your Lab
As a laboratory executive, you are in charge of ensuring your lab operations including lab staffing, testing, and reporting run smoothly and deliver the…
Your Lab’s Role in Patient-Centered Care
It’s impossible to read healthcare news or articles or event attend a health-focused event without hearing the words “patient-centered care” or “patient experience”. In…
Your Lab’s Mid Year Check Up
As a healthcare professional, you certainly understand the importance of annual and semi–annual physicals and doctor visits. By scheduling these regular visits and check…
Greg Ingle, CEO of Clinical Lab Consulting, Shares His Perspective on Today’s Labs
Greg Ingle’s background is eclectic to say the least. Greg was a host in the 90’s for various radio stations and was a nightclub DJ…
Closing the Gap Between People & Processes with Lab Tech
Medical laboratory managers and technicians play an important role in the prevention and diagnosis of diseases of all kinds. These lab techs are irreplaceable…
4 Questions to Ask When Evaluating a Lab Reporting Solution
Evaluating a LIMS and reporting solution can be overwhelming. Not only does your lab’s reporting affect the quality of your own lab and processes,…
3 Features in Pathagility Your Lab Will Love
The Pathagility team is inspired by start-up labs and existing laboratories that are developing new and innovative tests. We know how challenging that process can…
A PGx Discussion Featuring Micaela Vargas, PhD
Micaela Vargas’ Credentials Micaela Vargas (Micki) has a PhD in cell and molecular biology. Part of her work as a Doctoral student at the University…
3 Ways a LIMS System Cuts Costs & Improves Efficiency in The Lab
Across the nation, labs are facing the toughest financial squeeze of recent times. Simply said, lab managers are being asked to cut operating costs and…
How This PGx Lab Went From Ability to Analyze 50 Tests to 95
A high volume clinical laboratory based in Louisiana specializes in advanced PGx and Toxicology testing. The lab receives test samples from around the United States…
Spotlight on Pharmacogenetics: Tests & the Tech Behind Them
Over the last 10 years, it has come to public knowledge that genes do not necessarily have to express themselves. Integrative doctors have brought…
Ebook: “5 Ways Lab Technology Will Change in the Next 5 Years”
More than five years ago, in a “Lab of the Future” supplement for Advantage Business Media, more than half (55%) of the respondents to a…
How Your Lab Can Play a Vital Role in Improving the Patient Experience
You know just about everything there is to know about your lab. You understand the technology you use and how it works, you know each…
3 Ways Tox Labs Are Innovating
According to a recent article on AACC, each year, approximately 4 million patients experience some kind of overdose or chemical reaction to a substance –…
How Top PGx Labs Are Utilizing Tech – And How to Keep Up
When the human genetic code was cracked over a decade ago, it brought with it the expectation that there would be immediate application to human…
2016 Resolutions For The Advanced Laboratory
If the past few years have been any indicator, healthcare in 2016 (and maybe especially in the lab) will be fraught with change and will…
The Evolution of the Lab
As a lab executive, we don’t need to tell you how much the lab has changed over the last years. Every day, more and more…
Fresh New Pathagility.com
Spring is naturally a time to freshen up and start new things. In that spirit, we are launching a fresh, new pathagility.com! Our team is inspired by…
Great coverage of PGx Testing activity
Over the past few weeks, Pathagility has been a part of several written pieces on the Pharmacogenetic (PGx) testing market. We appreciate this coverage and continue…
ICD-10 Compliance Delayed?
You’ve probably read by now that both the House and the Senate have passed the Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR) bill. The official name of…
WorkPath 4.2.0 Release Notes
The latest version of WorkPath (4.2.0) is now in production. This release includes the following features and enhancements: Batch Printing – Users can now select…
WorkPath 4.0.1 Release Notes
The latest version of WorkPath (4.0.1) is now in production. This release includes the following features and enhancements: Queues – The queuing system is now…
Pathagility’s Latest Version
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…
Take the fear out of adding functionality to your existing LIS
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…
Launch a pathology lab in 1 week?
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…
What is Scalability?
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…
What should pathology labs have in their sales bag?
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…
FilePath for remote printing, results delivery and communication
Today’s fast paced world requires information be available instantly and on-demand. This has never been more true than it is right now in the pathology…
2012 Topics
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…
CAP ’11 – September in Dallas
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…
Pathology Associates goes live with Pathagility’s web-based LIS
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…
Pathology Report Distribution
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…
Pathagility in CAP Lab-Provider Link article
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’…
Is an interface necessary to meet the electronic results requirement?
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…
Middleware for smaller labs
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…
Key to Lab EMR Interface Projects
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,…
USCAP recap
Fantastic weather welcomed pathologists from all over the world to San Antonio for the 100th annual USCAP meeting this week. Posters and abstracts by thought…
We’re attending USCAP 2011 – are you?
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…
Attributes of next-generation LIS
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…
3 reasons SaaS makes sense for community pathology groups
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…
Simplifying the complex
The healthcare IT arena is extremely chaotic. The systems that support this industry in most cases mirror this complicated environment. The physicians, hospitals and healthcare organizations that are…
Are you using a FileMaker Pro LIS?
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…
3 tips for coping with buyers’ anxiety (health IT)
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…
ReportPath: Orders, Results, & Collaboration Portal
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…
Follow up on healthcare gadgets at CES11 – Slideshow
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…
Interface workarounds for common issues
Check out this Newsbyte in the latest issue of CAP Today by Dr. Raymond Aller entitled, Interface workarounds offer fixes for common issues. In it, Dr.…
Top gadgets at CES 2011 and impact on healthcare
Tomorrow marks the beginning of the Computer Electronics Show (CES) 2011 in Las Vegas. For those that are not techno geeks or gadget happy, this is one…
EMR, LIS, RIS & PACS “Friendly”
Happy New Year! Check out this great presentation by Dr. Bruce Friedman called Integrated Diagnostics: The perspective of the pathologist. In it, Dr. Friedman defines…
Should Pathologists Meet with Patients?
Should Pathologists Meet with Patients? It’s an interesting question. If you haven’t already, read this CAP Today article by Karen Titus about Melinda Lewis, MD…
How important is a Pathologist to Pathology Software?
How important is a Pathologist to Pathology Software? Certainly, we ask this question with a big smile on our faces because one of our Founders…
#’s in Healthcare IT
In such a short time, social media has become a part of our lives. This morning, I saw Biz Stone on The Today Show discussing “2010’s Most Inflential Tweets.” …
Web-based Order Entry
Pathagility levels the playing field by giving you the same functionality as the national mega labs. OrderPath delivers referring physicians a simple web-based order entry…
Is an interface necessary?
It can take many months and thousands of dollars to get a results only interface or bi-directional interface to “go live” from a lab system…
Web Browsers and (Lab) System Design
In the recent CAP TODAY, there is a good article in the Newsbytes section called, The conundrum of shortcut keys for Web-based LIS. Being a…
Lab-to-EMR interface alternatives
Ever wonder why one EMR vendor charges $10+K and takes 1 year to implement a Lab-to-EMR interface and another EMR vendor charges $3K and takes…
Pathagility’s Employee of the Month
On behalf of the team at Pathagility we would like to congratulate our Employee of the Month Michael Heckman for going above and beyond to…
Corporate Culture: What does it say about your health care organization?
What is the culture of your organization, and what does it say about your practice? Corporate culture defines how your organization acts, thinks, and feels. …
EMR Adoption: The Real Cost of Connectivity.
Cost is always at the top of referring physicians’ list when adopting an EMR solution, and there is no shortage of pricing and package options…
SERVICE – 1 Lab’s Competitive Advantage
If you were to poll pathology labs and ask what the most important factor in competing for referring physicians’ cases, you would get a multitude…
Rapid software updates
If you are a pathology group or any healthcare provider group for that matter, how would you rate the effectiveness of your software vendor on…
Social Labs
As a follow up to our recent post, Social Media in Pathology – Game Changer, check out this recent article from CAP Today entitled Social…
Meaningful Use Objectives for Pathologists
As mentioned in our recent post, Meaningful Use and Pathology Labs, we stated we would start forwarding on information regarding the affects of Meaningful Use…
Lab-to-EMR Interfacing – It’s a Business Decision
It is no secret that pathology groups are fielding calls from their referring physicians, hospitals, and healthcare partners to build EMR interfaces. Check out our previous post…
Lab EMR/Web-based LIS – What’s the difference?
Terminology– it is interesting how perceptions are formed based on a particular set of words even if those words are the only real differentiators of something. Word…
Social Media in Pathology – Game Changer
Came across this editorial from the Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine by … yes…scrolling through Twitter and seeing a Tweet from @VTPathology. The editorial…
The Clinical Lab and EHR Meaningful Use – Course Material
CAP is offering a course to pathologists that are interested in learning about the impacts of recent federal policies on clinical laboratories – The Clinical…
BPMG Goes Live w/ Pathagility’s ReportPath
We are pleased to announce that Bakersfield Pathology Medical Group is utilizing Pathagility‘s ReportPath product with its AP Easy Lab System. ReportPath is providing BPMG a secure,…
DICOM in Pathology
In August, Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) Standard Supplement 145 (aka – Whole Slide Microscopic Images) was passed. This standard aims to allow pathologists to…
Physicians Moving Away From Private Practice
There appears to be a national trend of physicians moving away from private practice and into salaried positions at large health systems. What role does…
HL7, Labs and Meaningful Use
Came across this CAP Today Newsbyte that provides some detail on HL7 standards that will be part of the federal government’s final rule on standards and…
Meaningful Use and Pathology Labs
You don’t have to look very far to find information, blog posts, tweets, etc. on EHR/EMR Meaningful Use (MU). It seems a bit more difficult to find information…
Pathology Labs Need Marketing Help
Are you a pathologist, lab tech, clinician or a manager at a laboratory? If so, what is your lab’s biggest differentiator? If we took a poll you…
Keep an Eye on Digital Pathology
In a recent post, we talked about the acquisition of BioImagene by Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. (a member of Roche Group). BioImagene is a leader in…
6 Factors: Choosing LIS-to-EMR Partner
With the increase in EMR adoption, we’ve discussed in previous posts the importance of the pathology lab and the huge wave of LIS-to-EMR interfacing that…
Impact of EMR adoption on the Pathology Lab
I’m a big fan of the folks at Dark Daily and got…hmmm how should I phrase this…FIRED UP when I read their most recent article called Sales…
Migration vs. Wholesale Replacement in the Lab
In working with pathology labs for the last several years, one common theme we hear related to their system environments is that work-arounds are a reality. They continually…
Waves of Disruption – Healthcare & Cloud Computing
I came across a great blog called Cloud Computing’s Stormy Future this morning by John Hagel III and John Seely Brown. John and John are co-chairmen of…
Save your Lab’s Brand 2
In a previous post, we talked about one way a pathology lab can protect its brand – the lab report. For a quick refresher, compare…
Lab plays big role in EHR adoption
At least 70% of data in the EMR originates in the lab. Several sources can be sited with this interesting statistic. We see articles, blog posts,…
Path lab volume up – efficiency needed
The article Good News for Anatomic Pathology Laboratories: Tissue-Based Diagnostics Market Predicted to Double by 2016 published this morning by Dark Daily, is another indicator that the…
Recent Digital Pathology Acquisition
A couple of weeks ago, it was announced that Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. (a member of the Roche Group) would acquire BioImagene for $100+ Million. BioImagene is…
Faxing still a reality in the EMR era.
Even though the movement of health data is becoming more digitized and shared electronically, one of the main distribution channels for lab results is still…
Enemies & Friends
We discussed “partnering with your competition” in a post a few months ago and thought it made sense to follow up on the topic after…
When you’ve outgrown FileMaker Pro
FileMaker Pro is an easy to use, flexible database tool that is quite popular in the pathology laboratory world. Many database applications (laboratory information systems…
Simplicity of HL7
Came across this post and video about how HL7 works on Twitter by @HL7 and really enjoyed the simplicity of it. What’s interesting though is that HL7…
EHR Progress?
There is an abundance of focus and energy around the shift to digitizing healthcare. The government may be the biggest cheerleader and/or bank roller. Last week,…
Software Pricing Dialogue
Software pricing – what an interesting science! So much goes into strategically positioning your software product, platform and/or service in the particular market you are…
Reducing call backs with Pathagility’s ReportPath
Pathagility won a contract with UNC Nephropathology about 18 months ago. We were chosen because we offered a web-based reporting solution that did not require…
Tools to level the playing field in today’s laboratory industry.
Several years ago I worked for a national lab. Our company’s individual AP labs of different sizes and specialties were sprinkled from coast to coast. …
Fast, Cost-Effective Interfacing
Today almost every pathology lab director has “interfacing” as a line item on their weekly staff meeting agenda. As more referring physicians implement EMR systems…
Are all healthcare SaaS platforms created equally?
We’ve already discussed the benefits of SaaS in healthcare especially those applications that provide opportunity for customization. But are all SaaS platforms equal? No…you guessed it……
SaaS, Healthcare IT and Customization
The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model has been in existence for many years and continues to successfully prove out its value proposition compared to traditional legacy software…
Partner with your competition
Just about every information source these days points to increased demands on the healthcare IT industry. Many are hoping process efficiencies can be realized by further automating healthcare. Others…
Save Your Lab’s Brand
What does your lab’s report say about the quality or value of your service? Your lab’s reports are an opportunity to create a memorable experience…
Healthcare IT Collaboration – One State’s Approach
Pathagility had the opportunity this week to speak to a group of Arkansas business leaders from both the public and private sectors at the Innovate…
80M Baby Boomers and the Increase in Lab Tests
Pathagility was in New Orleans last week for The Dark Report’s Executive War College on Laboratory and Pathology Management. Robert Michel, Editor in Chief of…
Increased EMR adoption rates and the impact on Laboratories.
ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) has $17,000,000,000 allocated to physicians to encourage the adoption of EMR technologies. In order to be eligible…
Can Healthcare IT vendors and providers roll up their sleeves to tackle the adoption challenge?
Challenges and questions still remain as we enter the new era of Healthcare IT. The fit of practices and vendors depends largely on the willingness…
Is there such thing as a turn key solution in healthcare IT?
While it seems that most healthcare providers are hoping to get to the stage where health information systems (EMR/EHR, LIS, RIS, etc.) provide more workflow…
Attending Executive War College – April 27-28th?
We are looking forward to attending the 15th Annual Executive War College on Laboratory and Pathology Management in New Orleans – April 27-28th. The agenda…
3 Methods for electronic ordering
As the adoption of electronic health records (EHR) continues to increase, so does the need to connect lab systems to EMR software. Interfaces are usually…
UNC Casestudy
Check out this case study on Pathagility becoming University of North Carolina (UNC) Nephropathology’s digital interface to their physician clients. UNC was able to enhance their…
Sales secrets for private laboratory success.
In today’s anatomic pathology market how do you as a local or hospital based pathologist hold on to or grow your business? You’ve seen large…
WorkPath: customized path lab workflows
WorkPath is a flexible, web-based platform that supports the creation of customized laboratory workflows. Some labs need to move from an inflexible, “one size fits…
ConnectPath: Health-care partner collaboration
Communication and collaboration is at the heart of Pathagility’s next-generation web-portal. In an increasingly collaborative healthcare environment, the need to seamlessly share data, insights, and…
Leverage existing LIS/EMR investments
Being able to leverage existing system investments is of paramount importance to many pathology labs due to the significant, sunk costs that they have already…
Beyond point-to-point health-care relationships
The majority (varying reports of between 60-80%) of all quantifiable data utilized by medical professionals to make health related decisions originate in the lab. While…
Laboratory Information System’s: What is the true cost of ownership?
What is the true cost of laboratory information systems (LIS) that support pathology? When calculating, there are items that seem quite obvious and others that…