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Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 1:00 PM-2 PM ET
Join us for a session to help improve diagnostic accuracy in your practice when scoring HER2 IHC 0 with faint, incomplete membrane staining in ≤10% of tumor cells vs IHC 0 with no membrane staining detected in patients with mBC.

Webinar presenter Samuel Caughron, MD, FCAP, Chief Strategy Officer, MAWD Pathology, Medical Director of Laboratory, AdventHealth Kansas City, Medical Director of Laboratory, Labcorp, President, Member & Director, Pathology Ventures, LLC

CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. This program is intended for US healthcare professionals. This program is being sponsored by AstraZeneca. The speaker is being compensated for the presentation. The program is not CME accredited and may not be used for CME accreditation.

Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY

Monday, November 16, 2026, 12:30 PM-2 PM ET
Hear experts discuss a multidisciplinary approach to oncopathology for HER2
assessments for solid tumors in the absence of a companion diagnostic.

Webinar presenters Funda Meric-Bernstam, MD, Chair, Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics Medical Director, Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, and Emina E. Torlakovic, MD, PhD, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Canadian Biomarker Quality Assurance, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and Carol Cheung, MD, PhD, JD, FRCPC, Deputy Director, Canadian Biomarker Quality, Assurance—Programme canadien d’assurance de la qualité des biomarqueurs

CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. This program is being sponsored by Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. and AstraZeneca. The speaker is being compensated for the presentation. The program is not CME accredited and may not be used for CME accreditation.

Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY

Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 12:00 PM-1 PM ET
Join leading pathology experts, Savitri Krishnamurthy, MD, and Marilyn Bui, MD, PhD, for a webinar exploring potential challenges in HER2 IHC testing for breast cancer, emerging evidence supporting digital and computational pathology as assistive tools for pathologists in HER2 IHC assessment, and practical considerations for real-world implementation and adoption.

Webinar presenters Savitri Krishnamurthy, MD, Professor of Pathology, Department of Anatomical Pathology The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, and Marilyn Bui, MD, PhD, Surgical Pathologist and Cytopathologist Member and Professor, Departments of Pathology, Machine Learning, and Translational Pathology, Scientific Director, Analytic Microscopy Core Chair, Women in Oncology Executive Board Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida

CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. This program is being sponsored by Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. and AstraZeneca. The speakers are being compensated for their presentations. The program is not CME accredited and may not be used for CME credit.

Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY

Wednesday, December 9, 2026, 12 PM-1 PM ET
Hear an expert pathologist discuss the role of HER2 IHC testing and scoring in solid tumors including endometrial, ovarian, cervical, bladder, non-small cell lung, colorectal, and biliary cancers

Webinar presenter Michelle Shiller, DO, MSPT, Baylor Sammons Cancer Center; Fulgent Genetics; Texas Cancer Interception Institute

CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. This program is intended for US healthcare professionals. This program is being sponsored by AstraZeneca. The speaker is being compensated for the presentation. The program is not CME accredited and may not be used for CME accreditation.

Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY

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Product Spotlight

Clinisys/Orchard Software

Orchard Harvest LIS

Company

Clinisys/Orchard Software

Name of laboratory information system

Orchard Harvest LIS

Contact

Beth Eder

Email

beth.eder@clinisys.com

City, State

Carmel, IN

Phone

800-856-1948

Website

https://www.orchardsoft.com

Company provides list of client sites to potential customers on request

yes (partial list of comparable sites with no restrictions regarding its use)

Updates covered by standard software maintenance fee

all updates

Schedule for providing standard software updates to clients

quarterly

Clients must install updates in specified timespans to avoid maintenance fee increase

yes (clients are required to stay within the latest 2 versions to avoid an upgrade fee)

Fee for software modifications to comply with federal regulations and laws

no

Year company began selling LISs (any brand or model)

1993

Most recent LIS go-live at a client site (based on August 2025 survey deadline)

Jun-2025

No. of U.S. sales and installations of LIS between August 2024–July 2025

23 sales/23 installations

Total No. of U.S. sites operating LIS (hospitals/independent labs/clinics or group practices/public health labs/other sites)

1, 843 (258/214/1, 161/37/173–correctional facilities, educational program, health care network, others)

• Approx. percentage of high-vol.* U.S. site installs/Low-vol.** U.S. site installs

47%/53%

Foreign locations where company actively markets LIS for clinical lab use

none

• Foreign locations where LIS has been installed for clinical lab use

Canada

Human languages (other than English) supported by LIS

none

Approximate No. of employees in entire company

267

Central hardware or service type

HP Business Class in a client/server environment, SaaS

Programming languages and development applications or environments

4th Dimension with portions in C, C++, HTML; Java

Operating system(s)

Windows Server 2016 or later

Databases

4D

System includes full transaction logging

yes

• Chemistry/Hematology/Print barcoded collection labels

installed at client sites (all 3 features)

• Microbiology/Public health microbiology

installed at client sites/installed at client sites

• Blood bank donor/Blood bank transfusion

available via Haemonetics/available via Haemonetics

• Surgical pathology/Cytology

installed at client sites/installed at client sites

• Molecular pathology/Cytogenetics/Flow cytometry

installed at client sites (all 3 features)

• EHR interface for admission/discharge/transfer (ADT)

installed at client sites

• EHR interface for order entry/EHR interface for results reporting

installed at client sites/installed at client sites

• EHR interface+GQ3:GQ15 for packaging results into PDF format

installed at client sites

• EHR interface for packaging results into CDA1 format/CDA2 format

not available/not available

• Ad hoc reporting/Rules-based system

installed at client sites/installed at client sites

• Management and statistical reporting/Client services or CRM module

installed at client sites/available via Orchard Outreach

• Commercial reference lab functionality/Compliance checking

installed at client sites/installed at client sites

• Comprehensive billing and accounts receivable or RCM

• Comprehensive billing and accounts receivable or RCM

• Materials management and inventory/Test partition

installed at client sites/installed at client sites

• Remote faxing/Remote printing

installed at client sites/installed at client sites

• HIPAA-standard transaction formats

installed at client sites

• Web-based remote inquiry of reports/Web access for order entry

installed at client sites/installed at client sites

• Management and tracking of specimens within lab/Before arriving in lab

installed at client sites/installed at client sites

• QA tools/Environmental health

installed at client sites/installed at client sites

• Interfaces for sending orders from primary lab to reference lab, handling results return, and status updates

installed at client sites

• Business analytics/Clinical analytics

installed at client sites/installed at client sites

• Ability to schedule patient for test collection/Patient-based test registration

installed at client sites/installed at client sites

• Ability to coordinate with nurses for collections that phlebotomists cannot perform

available via Orchard Outreach

• Interfaces with public health databases using ELR as part of Promoting Interoperability

installed at client sites

• Results for tests run using different methods show method on clinical reports

installed at client sites

Barcode symbologies supported by LIS

Codabar (NW-7), Code 39, Code 128, DataMatrix, Code 128C, PDF417

Ability to use artificial intelligence (e.g., machine-learning software) with LIS

planned for future

• Microbiology (culture and sensitivity)

yes

• Other reportable diseases or conditions (e.g., blood lead, immunology, etc.)

yes

• Tumor diagnosis and case data to regional cancer registry***

yes

LIS bidirectionally interfaces to other IT vendors’ lab systems in live sites

yes

LIS uses third-party middleware for LIS–instrument interfaces

no (interface directly)

Lab automation systems or workcells to which LIS has a direct interface

Beckman Coulter, Siemens, QuidelOrtho, Sysmex, Thermo Scientific, Olympus, Roche, Abbott, Tecan, others

LIS supports use of SNOMED CT

yes, for all cases

LIS automatically ingests and applies electronic updates of tables and rules from organizations and government agencies

no

LIS allows for image capture, display, reporting

yes

LIS provides indexed field in each test definition for LOINC code

yes

Client gets copy of source code/User group that meets on established schedule

escrow/no

Qualified users or third parties can modify or augment LIS functions or features

yes (client users)

Methods by which users can tailor LIS in their own setting

ad hoc query tools, user-defined interfaces, dictionary settings, read/write privileges, workflow configuration, tailored worklists, user-defined security, rules, others

Distinguishing product features (supplied by company)

expert interfacing and integration with instruments, EMR and host systems, departments, reference labs; robust rules-based decision support logic and data-mining technology for data analytics; intuitive, user-friendly user interface and maximum flexibility allow users to configure system to their needs

Notes

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LigoLab LIS & RCM Laboratory Informatics Platform 2025
Oracle Health Laboratory
TruBridge EHR–Laboratory Information System
XiFin Empower LIS