Tag Archives: LigoLab Information Systems

Ocotber 2023—Health care technology companies, by and large, are eager to share product metrics—that is, standalone product performance—with potential pathology lab clients but less eager to share how those technologies may impact laboratory workflow and decision-making.

August 2022—Transfusion medicine specialists at Phoenix Children’s Hospital may be used to trending laboratory biomarkers for sickle cell disease patients in their heads, but a dashboard supporting red blood cell exchange procedures for such patients eases the burden on their cerebral cortices.

September 2021—When Stephen Hewitt, MD, PhD, went down the COVID-19 rabbit hole in early 2020, little did he know about the long-term value of a comprehensive COVID-19 digital pathology repository—and how such a project would come to fill his days and, occasionally, nights.

May 2021–Laboratory information systems contain a wealth of diagnostic patient case data, but accessing it promptly can be difficult if not impossible—without a workaround, that is.

April 2021—The rewards of data analytics can be sizable, but so can the challenges of extracting data, transforming it, and loading it into the appropriate systems to facilitate the functionality.

April 6, 2021—LigoLab announced the availability of its direct-to-consumer platform TestDirectly, for clinical laboratories to use to support COVID-19 school surveillance testing.

New NovoPath CEO settled in and taking questions December 2020—CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle recently spoke with Promise Okeke, who took the helm as CEO of NovoPath last summer. Here’s what Okeke had to say about NovoPath’s case distribution module, customer service, and the advantages of offering a best-of-breed system, among other topics.

Aug. 17, 2020—LigoLab Information Systems offers a collection model that combines laboratory information systems and revenue cycle management workflows.

May 2020—Imagine the potential educational benefits of pathology residents being able to see the precise path that the eyes of experienced pathologists take as they scan a whole slide image. Preliminary research has suggested that showing residents visual representations of a pathologist’s eye-tracking movement overlaid over a whole slide image can impact how they learn, says Sharon E. Fox, MD, PhD, a pathologist at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Healthcare System and associate director of research and development, Department of Pathology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center.

April 2019—The R&B classic “Time Is on My Side” may be an anthem for rejected lovers, but a new virtual reality teaching tool that allows students to “visit” the pathology lab without leaving the classroom may soon have NYU medical students humming the song’s refrain.