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 start-up labs and existing laboratories that are developing new tests. We know how challenging it can be. We love to help by providing a cost effective Software-as-a-Service that feels like 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…
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…
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…
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. …
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. Aller refers to a few issues that arise in order-entry and results reporting interface processes between hospital or regional labs and their reference labs. Here are the issues he outlines… 1. …