One LIS for All Your Laboratories
January 25, 2022
As you grow and extend the geographic footprint of your lab business, your laboratory information system (LIS) need not be a limitation. Today it is practical—and beneficial—to unify all your lab locations on a single LIS installation. Doing so provides for better operations management and reporting.
After an acquisition or merger, you may be faced with having to integrate different lab information systems. Many times, these systems do not integrate well and create reporting headaches, particularly with patient diagnostic reports and management reporting. Your lab may also be expanding into other geographical locations as part of your growth strategy and you may want to consider a single unified LIS.
Your lab may also have a research component that you do not want to commingle with patient testing. Using the XiFin research project management modules for example, cases are accessioned to specific projects and managed to completion. Patient information is optional for research projects. Results can be aggregated and reported in batches.
XiFin LIS is a cloud-based LIS that allows you to create as many “performing labs” as you like. LIS administrators in your lab can create copies of existing performing labs with a few mouse clicks. They can then associate the users that require access to the new performing lab. Report templates can be unique for the new lab. Management reports can aggregate data across performing labs or focus on specific groups of performing labs. Different performing labs might perform distinct types of diagnostic tests, for example. Each lab can have the testing modules they need activated for each performing lab.
We provide laboratory testing services for a wide range of specialties. We have an aggressive growth strategy which includes providing lab services to partner lab sites. We can provide a unique LIS build to each lab partner on a single XiFin LIS platform, which enables us to unify our operations and workflow, and our patient and management reporting. We can have as many performing lab entities as we need, for no additional charge.
Michael Lorenzo, Chief Executive Officer, Pathline
Pathline is a leading provider of laboratory testing services for a wide range of specialties, with exceptional support and turnaround times. Backed by a team of highly trained, board-certified pathologists and Ph.D.-level scientists, its full-service pathology lab has provided diagnostic testing, information, and technical services to clinical and physician labs for more than 40 years. Pathline had an aggressive growth strategy providing lab services to multiple partner lab sites. The company is able to provide a unique LIS build to each lab partner on a single XiFin LIS instance. This strategy allows Pathline to unify operations workflow and patient and management reporting.
There is no additional charge for this capability. Labs can have as many performing lab entities as they wish. As a true SaaS-based system, XiFin charges by the number of users regardless of the number of labs.
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