CAP TODAY Pathology/Laboratory Medicine/Laboratory Management
NovoPath offers Citrix platform for AP system
NovoPath has announced that it will support the Citrix XenApp platform, while continuing its support of the Microsoft Terminal Services platform, to allow laboratory professionals using its NovoPath anatomic pathology system to securely manage cases from any location at any time.
“We believe it is important to provide our clients with a choice in architecture to support remote employees [and] enable a flexible working environment,” says Rick Callahan, vice president of sales and marketing for NovoPath. “With a diversity of offerings, IT departments can save time and money and select the most appropriate NovoPath offering, given their existing IT infrastructure.”
NovoPath also offers the NovoOutreach module, which provides referring physicians with Web-based off-site order entry and results viewing.
NovoPath, 877-668-6123
AHRQ tool focuses on lab test processes in medical offices
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released the toolkit “Improving Your Office Testing Process: Toolkit for Rapid-Cycle Patient Safety and Quality Improvement.”
The document is intended to help doctors, nurses, and medical office staff improve their processes for tracking, reporting, and following up on medical laboratory tests. It includes a template to ensure that laboratory test results are properly communicated to patients in English and Spanish.
The toolkit is available on the AHRQ Web site at www.ahrq.gov.
Brazilian hospital selects Cerner system
Cerner has announced that it will install its Cerner Millennium solutions at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, a private, 674-bed hospital with eight ambulatory clinics in São Paulo, Brazil. The hospital is Cerner’s first Millennium implementation in Brazil and its first client to leverage Millennium in Portuguese.
Cerner, 816-221-1024
[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 Consulting Services, LLC, Florence, Ore. He can be reached at hal@weinerconsulting.com.