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Tuesday, July 21, 2026, 11:00-11:30 AM CT
- Explain how transparency and manufacturer partnerships improve quality, consistency, and decision-making confidence in specimen management.
- Evaluate blood collection tubes beyond cost and commodity assumptions, incorporating clinical impact and risk into decision-making.
- Assess the potential risk points when using a blood collection device that has not been cleared for a specific purpose.
Roundtable presenters Nick Fingland, PhD, PMP, Senior Director, R&D Operations and Science, BD, and Chris Farnsworth, PhD, D(ABCC), Section Head of Clinical Chemistry, Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Wednesday, July 29, 2026, 1:00-2:00 PM ET
Learn about digital pathology technology that is future-ready, yet practical for today’s
laboratory needs.
Webinar presenters Scott Hammond, Senior Systems Consultant, Digital Pathology Division, Wexner Medical Center, Department of Pathology, and Ursula Hofer, Imaging Technologist, Pathology Digital Imaging Lab, Wexner Medical Center, Department of Pathology, and Sandra Banky, PA(ASCP), Director of Operations, Wexner Medical Center, Department of Pathology.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
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| Name of laboratory information system | Polytech LIS |
|---|---|
| Company | Comp Pro Med |
| Contact | Craig Wargin |
| City, State | Santa Rosa, CA |
| Phone | 707-578-0239 |
| Website | |
| Company provides list of client sites to potential customers on request | no (information is confidential) |
| Updates covered by standard software maintenance fee | all updates |
| Schedule for providing standard software updates to clients | every 6 months |
| Clients must install updates in specified timespans to avoid maintenance fee increase | no |
| Fee for software modifications to comply with federal regulations and laws | no |
| Year company began selling LISs (any brand or model) | 1983 |
| Most recent LIS go-live at a client site (based on August 2025 survey deadline) | Apr-2025 |
| Last product release or update for featured LIS | 130 |
| No. of U.S. sales and installations of LIS between August 2024–July 2025 | 2 sales/2 installations |
| Total No. of U.S. sites operating LIS (hospitals/independent labs/clinics or group practices/public health labs/other sites) | 130 (2/82/46/0/0) |
| • Approx. percentage of high-vol.* U.S. site installs/Low-vol.** U.S. site installs | 5%/95% |
| Foreign locations where company actively markets LIS for clinical lab use | none |
| • Foreign locations where LIS has been installed for clinical lab use | Bhutan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Canada, Caribbean, Bahamas, Kuwait, Philippines |
| Human languages (other than English) supported by LIS | any supported by Microsoft operating system† |
| Approximate No. of employees in entire company | 7 |
| Central hardware or service type | any (client supported) |
| Programming languages and development applications or environments | PHP, C++, HTML, JavaScript, R |
| Operating system(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Databases | Pervasive, MySQL, SQLite |
| System includes full transaction logging | yes |
| • Chemistry/Hematology/Print barcoded collection labels | installed at client sites (all 3 features) |
| • Microbiology/Public health microbiology | installed at client sites/installed at client sites |
| • Blood bank donor/Blood bank transfusion | not available/not available |
| • Surgical pathology/Cytology | installed at client sites/installed at client sites |
| • Molecular pathology/Cytogenetics/Flow cytometry | installed at client sites (all 3 features) |
| • EHR interface for admission/discharge/transfer (ADT) | installed at client sites |
| • EHR interface for order entry/EHR interface for results reporting | installed at client sites/installed at client sites |
| • EHR interface+GQ3:GQ15 for packaging results into PDF format | installed at client sites |
| • EHR interface for packaging results into CDA1 format/CDA2 format | not available/not available |
| • Ad hoc reporting/Rules-based system | installed at client sites/installed at client sites |
| • Management and statistical reporting/Client services or CRM module | installed at client sites/installed at client sites |
| • POL link or Web portal to physician offices/Patient Web portal | installed at client sites/installed at client sites |
| • Commercial reference lab functionality/Compliance checking | installed at client sites/installed at client sites |
| • Comprehensive billing and accounts receivable or RCM | • Comprehensive billing and accounts receivable or RCM |
| • Materials management and inventory/Test partition | installed at client sites/installed at client sites |
| • Remote faxing/Remote printing | installed at client sites/installed at client sites |
| • HIPAA-standard transaction formats | installed at client sites |
| • Web-based remote inquiry of reports/Web access for order entry | installed at client sites/installed at client sites |
| • Management and tracking of specimens within lab/Before arriving in lab | installed at client sites/installed at client sites |
| • QA tools/Environmental health | installed at client sites/installed at client sites |
| • Interfaces for sending orders from primary lab to reference lab, handling results return, and status updates | installed at client sites |
| • Business analytics/Clinical analytics | installed at client sites/installed at client sites |
| • Ability to schedule patient for test collection/Patient-based test registration | installed at client sites/installed at client sites |
| • Ability to coordinate with nurses for collections that phlebotomists cannot perform | installed at client sites |
| • Interfaces with public health databases using ELR as part of Promoting Interoperability | installed at client sites |
| • Results for tests run using different methods show method on clinical reports | installed at client sites |
| Barcode symbologies supported by LIS | Codabar (NW-7), Code 39, Code 128, DataMatrix (LIS also supports QR codes) |
| Ability to use artificial intelligence (e.g., machine-learning software) with LIS | planned for future |
| • Microbiology (culture and sensitivity) | yes |
| • Other reportable diseases or conditions (e.g., blood lead, immunology, etc.) | yes (any disease or condition, as required) |
| • Tumor diagnosis and case data to regional cancer registry*** | yes |
| LIS bidirectionally interfaces to other IT vendors’ lab systems in live sites | yes |
| LIS uses third-party middleware for LIS–instrument interfaces | no (interface directly) |
| Lab automation systems or workcells to which LIS has a direct interface | Beckman Coulter, Siemens, QuidelOrtho, Sysmex, Thermo Scientific, Olympus, Roche, Abbott, Tecan, Bayer |
| LIS supports use of SNOMED CT | yes, for all cases |
| LIS automatically ingests and applies electronic updates of tables and rules from organizations and government agencies | yes (LOINC, ICD, FDA NDC) |
| LIS allows for image capture, display, reporting | yes |
| LIS provides indexed field in each test definition for LOINC code | yes (provide LOINC dictionary free of charge with install) |
| Client gets copy of source code/User group that meets on established schedule | no/no |
| Qualified users or third parties can modify or augment LIS functions or features | yes (client users) |
| Methods by which users can tailor LIS in their own setting | ad hoc query tools, user-defined interfaces, dictionary settings, read/write privileges, workflow configuration, tailored worklists, customizable report generator |
| Distinguishing product features (supplied by company) | live U.S.-based customer support; problems solved in hours, not weeks; Polytech reporting completely customer customizable with company support or independently with company LIS tools; ease of usability; 90 percent of lab work done in a single screen |
| Notes | †actively translated for French, Spanish |