CAP TODAY Pathology/Laboratory Medicine/Laboratory Management
NetLims to release new version of lab system
NetLims NJ, LLC, has announced plans to introduce AutoLims version 3.3.1 next month.
This latest version of NetLims’ AutoLims laboratory information system offers enhanced user customization of menus and tables. It also includes the company’s new AutoAccess module, which allows physicians to place lab orders and view results online.
“AutoLims version 3.3.1 provides our customers with software support for cross-lab functions by offering fully paperless and automated support from start to finish for processes such as add-on requests, sample shipments for multi-site organizations, and ordering of questionable tests,” says Gerald Choder, NetLims’ vice president of sales and marketing.
Numerous management controls have also been added to the new version, including the ability to view the number of orders that are pending results, the number of results that have been distributed, and the number of stat orders that are being processed, as well as which tests have exceeded their predetermined turnaround time.
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Online database addresses meaningful use measures
The U.S. Health Information Knowledgebase contains recently published information on meaningful use clinical quality measures and their associated value sets, as well as information on meaningful use core and menu objectives.
USHIK is an online, public registry and repository of health care-related data, metadata, and standards. It offers search, analysis, comparison, and download functionality for clinical quality measures and value sets and information on objectives for stages one and two of meaningful use.
Health care providers can access the USHIK meaningful use portal at http://ushik.ahrq.gov. The site is funded by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
[hr]Dr. Aller is director of informatics and clinical professor in the Department of Pathology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He can be reached at raller@usc.edu. Hal Weiner is president of Weiner Consult-ing Services, LLC, Florence, Ore. He can be reached at hal@weinerconsulting.com.