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The redesigned and rebranded tool for tracking and comparing key metrics has added more than 600 charts covering all areas of blood bank operations, including donor services, inventory management, and quality assurance, as well as laboratory and hospital services.
Other enhancements to the software include the ability to specify date ranges going back two years and add charts customized to users’ facilities.
BBCS, 888-738-2227
Seacoast incorporates new ABN report in lab systems
Seacoast Laboratory Data Systems has added a new order-entry ABN report to its SurroundLab Plus laboratory information system and SurroundLab system for outreach labs.
The advance beneficiary notice of noncoverage report is intended to help laboratories manage clients that continuously fail to provide the correct diagnosis code for tests that fall under the limited coverage policies for the payer. “By keeping a log of the ABN alerts provided during the order-entry process, SurroundLab is able to produce a detailed report that can be periodically reviewed and even supplied to clients for educational and training purposes,” the company reported on its website.
The ABN report parameters include date range, ordering-site selection, client selection, detail or summary formats, and three sorting options. The report may be printed and saved as a .csv file.
Seacoast Laboratory Data Systems, 603-431-4114
Philips announces IntelliSite installation in Middle East
Royal Philips recently reported that AI Borg Medical Laboratories’ facility in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, has adopted the Philips IntelliSite pathology solution to digitize its process of examining patient tissue.
AI Borg is the largest chain of private laboratories in Saudi Arabia and the first in the Middle East to adopt IntelliSite.
Royal Philips, 888-744-5477
Dr. Aller teaches informatics 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, Eugene, Ore. He can be reached at hal@weinerconsulting.com.