CAP TODAY Pathology/Laboratory Medicine/Laboratory Management
Netlims releases report and mobile app
Netlims recently posted on its website a white paper, titled “The Path to More Revenue: Cloud-Based LIMS, Mobile Apps, and Point-of-Care Telehealth,” and introduced a mobile app for phlebotomy and other point-of-care uses.
The white paper details how Netlims products can enhance patient outcomes, contribute to client revenue, and foster compliance with Medicare quality-based payment programs. It specifically addresses the benefits of the company’s LabOS lab information system and new LabWay patient-centric mobile app.
LabWay can be integrated with LabOS and POC diagnostic devices from mobile telehealth technology companies such as RPM Telehealth and V-Patch. It provides mobile phlebotomists with the information necessary to perform collections, manage shipments, plan and save travel routes, and address other aspects of off-site visits.
Netlims, 908-566-7700
[hr]Inspirata purchases Omnyx
The digital pathology workflow solutions and cancer informatics provider Inspirata has acquired Omnyx from GE Healthcare.
Omnyx’s flagship digital pathology software product, Dynamyx, connects pathologists and other care providers to foster collaboration in cancer care and improve cancer diagnostics.
“The acquisition of Omnyx positions Inspirata with the most comprehensive digital pathology workflow solution in the world,” said Inspirata CEO Satish Sanan, in a press release. “It brings us the last mile to reach our goal of having an end-to-end integrated pathology solution with a scanner-agnostic whole slide image viewer and image-management system. It also gives us a fully supported IVD device cleared for primary digital diagnosis in Europe and Canada, and it expands our customer base and geographic footprint across those countries.”
Inspirata plans to retain Omnyx’s employees and use the company’s Pittsburgh office as a center of excellence for digital pathology software development. “Our short-term plan,” added Sanan, “is to rapidly combine the advantages of our digital pathology software platform and the Dynamyx platform by converging them onto a shared, state-of-the-art technology stack.”
Inspirata, 813-570-8900
[hr]KLAS Enterprises announces annual vendor honors
For the eighth consecutive year, Epic has received a top honor in KLAS Enterprises’ annual Best in KLAS awards, earning the ranking of number one overall software suite for its EpicCare inpatient electronic medical record system. The company received numerous recognitions in the 2018 ranking, including Best in KLAS in the laboratory (large hospital/IDN) category for its Epic Beaker lab system.
The “2018 Best in KLAS: Software & Services” report names the top-performing health care information technology companies within various market segments based on feedback from health care providers.
Also receiving more than one honor from the health information technology market research firm were Cerner, a repeat category leader in anatomic pathology for its CoPathPlus system; Meditech, once again the recipient of the Best in KLAS designation for community hospital information system, for its Meditech C/S and 6x; and Optimum Healthcare IT, ranked top overall IT services firm for the second year in a row. Orchard Software too retains its position as category leader in laboratory (community hospital/ambulatory) for its Orchard Harvest LIS.
A list of the 2018 Best in KLAS awardees is available at www.klas
research.com/best-in-klas-winners.
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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.