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Seacoast Laboratory Data Systems
| Company | Seacoast Laboratory Data Systems |
|---|---|
| Name of laboratory information system | SurroundLab Plus |
| Contact | Lisa M. Turgeon |
| City, State | Dover, NH |
| Phone | 603-431-4114 |
| Website | |
| Company provides list of client sites to potential customers on request | yes (partial list of comparable sites but prospective clients must sign a nondisclosure agreement) |
| Updates covered by standard software maintenance fee | some updates (updates to base options) |
| Schedule for providing standard software updates to clients | annually |
| Clients must install updates in specified timespans to avoid maintenance fee increase | no |
| Fee for software modifications to comply with federal regulations and laws | yes |
| Year company began selling LISs (any brand or model) | 2000 |
| Most recent LIS go-live at a client site (based on August 2025 survey deadline) | Jul-2025 |
| Last product release or update for featured LIS | — |
| No. of U.S. sales and installations of LIS between August 2024–July 2025 | 1 sale/1 installation |
| Total No. of U.S. sites operating LIS (hospitals/independent labs/clinics or group practices/public health labs/other sites) | 78 (0/77/1/0/0) |
| • Approx. percentage of high-vol.* U.S. site installs/Low-vol.** U.S. site installs | 75%/25% |
| Foreign locations where company actively markets LIS for clinical lab use | none |
| • Foreign locations where LIS has been installed for clinical lab use | — |
| Human languages (other than English) supported by LIS | — |
| Approximate No. of employees in entire company | 25 |
| Central hardware or service type | physical or virtual servers, cloud based (Amazon Web Services) |
| Programming languages and development applications or environments | M-Caché |
| Operating system(s) | Linux, Windows |
| Databases | GT.M |
| 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 | — |
| • Surgical pathology/Cytology | — |
| • Molecular pathology/Cytogenetics/Flow cytometry | — |
| • 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 | — |
| • 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/— |
| • 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 |
| • 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/— |
| • 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 | Code 39, Code 128 (LIS also supports QR codes) |
| Ability to use artificial intelligence (e.g., machine-learning software) with LIS | no |
| • Microbiology (culture and sensitivity) | yes |
| • Other reportable diseases or conditions (e.g., blood lead, immunology, etc.) | yes |
| • Tumor diagnosis and case data to regional cancer registry*** | no |
| LIS bidirectionally interfaces to other IT vendors’ lab systems in live sites | yes |
| LIS uses third-party middleware for LIS–instrument interfaces | combination of direct interfaces and third-party middleware (Data Innovations, CentraLink, others) |
| Lab automation systems or workcells to which LIS has a direct interface | Beckman Coulter, Siemens, Sysmex, Thermo Scientific, Olympus, Roche, Abbott, Tecan, Bayer, Sarstedt |
| LIS supports use of SNOMED CT | for some types of cases (state reporting) |
| LIS automatically ingests and applies electronic updates of tables and rules from organizations and government agencies | yes (LOINC, ICD, SNOMED, CPT) |
| LIS allows for image capture, display, reporting | yes |
| LIS provides indexed field in each test definition for LOINC code | yes (clients may supply a LOINC file for upload to LIS) |
| 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 | no (users can update and edit master files) |
| Methods by which users can tailor LIS in their own setting | ad hoc query tools, user-defined interfaces, dictionary settings, tailored worklists |
| Distinguishing product features (supplied by company) | commercial lab centric; scalable; fully customizable; superior customer support; optional modules for QC, microbiology, standing orders, toxicology; full suite of products for the commercial lab, including accounts receivable |
| Notes | — |