Newsbytes, 4/13

Liaison Technologies acquires Ignis Systems

Liaison Technologies, a provider of cloud-based integration and data-management services and solutions, has acquired Ignis Systems, a marketer of clinical data-integration solutions, including products for transferring lab orders and results.

Liaison will add Ignis’ EMR-Link physician-centric connectivity product to its integration and data-management services portfolio. The company will also “incorporate Ignis’ expertise in EMR integration, practice-based CPOE [computerized physician order entry], patient engagement, and the company’s nationwide network of integrated labs into its cloud-based health care data-integration portfolio of services,” Liaison reports.

Liaison Technologies, 877-336-5163

Psyche Systems offers new LIS and updates another

Psyche Systems recently released WPTox, its toxicology laboratory information system, as well as a real-time laboratory-management dashboard and standard management reports for its WindoPath LIS.

WPTox, which is designed specifically for drug testing and pain management, simplifies and streamlines the sample-collection process via a Web-based sample-collection portal. It also provides multiple formats for reporting drug testing. It can be used as a stand-alone toxicology information system or as part of a complete LIS.

Psyche’s new eDashboard module for its WindoPath LIS provides management-level personnel with real-time monitoring of daily performance, key metrics, and throughput at the lab test level. The dashboard display uses a traffic light concept, with green meaning no need for intervention, yellow indicating caution, and red signifying that intervention is critical.

Standard management reports allow users to view the lab from a business operations perspective.

Psyche Systems, 508-634-2520

AP-Visions marketing LIS to small hospitals and POLs

AP-Visions has introduced xLab, a laboratory information system for small hospitals and physician office laboratories.

XLab supports user-definable single-screen order entry in a rules-based environment, as well as quality control management with Levey-Jennings graphs and Westgard rules. It is EMR ready and includes support for multi-instrument interfacing and interpretive reporting and reflex testing.

XLab can be fully integrated with AP-Visions’ AP-Uro, AP-Derma, and AP-GI anatomic pathology software for specialty physician practices.

AP-Visions, 714-306-0996

HL7 releases intellectual property as free offering

The nonprofit standards development organization Health Level Seven International, earlier this month, began offering much of its intellectual property via a free license, irrespective of HL7 membership. Among the free offerings are published standards and implementation guides.

The intellectual property will not be available on the open-source market. The content of the intellectual property must be licensed for use, but the license is free.

Health Level Seven, 734-677-7777

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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.