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    LIS

    State of the 2024 LIS market

    Erin Brady
    Oct. 28, 2024
    MLO’s annual LIS Buyer’s Guide showcases different LIS products from a variety of vendors. This year, MLO decided to expand its annual LIS guide and add lab data products from...
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    LIS satisfaction and security concerns highlighted in XIFIN survey

    LABline
    March 18, 2022
    A new survey from XIFIN found a significant opportunity remains for diagnostic laboratories to improve the functionality and security of their laboratory information system (LIS...
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    CliniSys and HORIZON Lab Systems combine with Sunquest Information Systems

    LABline
    Jan. 24, 2022
    CliniSys, which acquired HORIZON Lab Systems in early January, has now combined with Sunquest Information Systems. HORIZON Lab Systems specializes in cloud-based laboratory solutions...
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    LIS

    How far and how well will your data travel?

    Mehdi Nassiri, MD
    Jan. 19, 2022
    In today’s world, with the ease of travel and individual mobility, healthcare data must travel with its owners (patients). However, nearly one third of patients are burdened with...
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    Keys to upgrading an LIS

    MLO Staff
    Nov. 23, 2021
    Upgrading a laboratory information system (LIS) is a large and expensive undertaking. Given the cost and complexity of the systems, labs choose a relationship with a product and...
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    LabVantage Solutions introduces enterprise SaaS solution

    LABline
    Sept. 16, 2021
    LabVantage Solutions has launched an enterprise SaaS LIMS solution. The SaaS option eliminates the upfront capital and start-up costs of a conventional LIMS and provides users...
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    ONC releases draft patient-matching specification

    LABline
    June 17, 2021
    The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released a draft technical specification for representing patient addresses in electronic medical...
    Linda Wilson
    LIS

    Achieving the promise of IT interoperability

    Linda Wilson
    Feb. 22, 2021
    If ever there was a time when interoperable information systems were critical, the time is now during the COVID-19 pandemic. Think about how various professionals in the healthcare...
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    COVID-19 highlights need for laboratory data sharing and interoperability

    Kim Futrell, MT (ASCP), MSHI
    Feb. 22, 2021
    Secure sharing of patient data across healthcare systems and organizations – better known as interoperability – is widely recognized as part of the solution to improve patient...
    Linda Wilson
    LIS

    Moving away from paper processes

    Nov. 19, 2020
    Planning for flu season amid the COVID-19 pandemic not only involves procuring reagents, swabs, and personal protective equipment (PPE) but also reengineering processes to remove...
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    Deleting paper processes improves COVID-19 testing throughput

    Linda Wilson
    Nov. 19, 2020
    The large volume of testing for SARS-CoV-2 has exposed process-flow bottlenecks in clinical labs. That is why labs should prepare for an expected onslaught of COVID-19, flu and...