MEDITECH
Laboratory
product brief
MEDITECH's Laboratory application improves the speed and accuracy of lab work - from requisitioning through final reporting - by eliminating time-consuming paperwork and delivering information to physicians quickly and efficiently. As caregivers gain easier access to lab results and reports, patient safety is improved and costs are reduced.
Highlights:
•
Multisite, multifacility specimen tracking
• Accurate, up-to-the-minute patient data
and charge information
• Expert systems with rules-based logic
• Ability to perform statistical analysis
and compare test results
• On-line patient inquiries, reports, and
summaries
• Integrated inventory management and
maintenance scheduling for laboratory instruments
• Advanced telecommunications capabilities
using system modems, network printers, fax machines, pagers, and
handheld devices
• Process screens that allow multiple
functions to be accessed for several patients and specimens from
one screen.
Standard Features
Rules-Based
Logic
Rules-based logic capabilities can be applied to many laboratory
functions. Laboratory personnel define criteria in “if-then”
statements. These rules help technologists establish, perform,
and maintain laboratory and organization-wide policies and
procedures, while ensuring the patient receives safe, quality
care.
Some of the major functions are:
• Order logic /criteria
• Site rules
• Reflex testing
• Charge rules
• Purge rules
• Reporting logic
• Calculation rules.
Network-Wide
Requisition Entry
Laboratory staff members order tests and assign collection
categories with requisition entry routines. Users have the
ability to perform several tasks from one screen, including:
• Ordering for past or future dates
• Placement of network orders from various sites, including
physicians' offices, off-site clinics, and emergency rooms
• User-definable reflex testing, series orders, and
automatic group testing
• Workload crediting for specimen collection
• Addition of unlimited lines of free text or coded comments
• Charge capture at time of order, resulting, completion, or
specimen collection
• Automatic credit issue
• Duplicate order checking
• Evaluation of order rules.
Specimen
Collection and Verification
MEDITECH’s Laboratory application streamlines the specimen
collection and verification process with:
• User-definable barcode collection labels
• Automated specimen storage
• Phlebotomy handheld to ensure positive patient
identification and accurate data collection
• Multisite tracking
• Unlimited, user-defined collection categories for timed
draws
• Efficient specimen processing by receipt of individual
specimens or of an entire batch
• Re-collection and reprint label capabilities
• Specimen collection time and user automatically captured
from Order Entry when "Collected by Nurse" (CBN).
Specimen
Processing Screens
Process screens allow users to access multiple functions for
multiple patients and specimens from one screen.
• Specimens arranged by priority
• Unlimited sequencing of quality control and patient
specimens
• Result entry for worksheet batches via process screens
• The ability to define tasks which are automatically
associated with laboratory worksheets, such as instrument
maintenance
• Rules-based logic for inclusion/exclusion of specimens in
a batch.
Result
Entry
Staff has the ability to enter results via workstations, on-line
automated analyzers, and user-defined result entry screens.
• Result entry by specimen, patient, worksheet, or
processing screens
• Propagation of results within spreadsheets
• Delta checking, reflex evaluation
• Interpretive comments by test result value
• Workload automatically captured
• Reference laboratory interface available.
Result
Verification
Our Laboratory application helps streamline the result
verification process and ensure the accuracy of results reporting.
• Test results withheld from reporting until verified
• Verification of profile components with results released
individually
• Immediate broadcast of results to a patient location by
user-defined criteria (test, location, priority)
• Edited results automatically reported with corrected
comments
• Automatic paging of physicians via cell phones or pagers.
Result
Inquiry
Laboratory personnel can perform real-time, on-line inquiries by
physician, date, test, patient name, billing number, Medical
Record Number, partial name look-up, specimen number, or
laboratory test.
• Results delivery based on user-defined criteria
• Results available in the Electronic Medical Record or over
the Internet.
Patient
Reports
A series of standard and user-defined formats is available to
users by activity or summary.
• Cumulative summaries by location, care provider, and
patient, as well as complete discharge summaries
• Reports can be automatically printed, faxed, and e-mailed.
Management
Reports
A series of flexible management reports help laboratories to
capture information easily and efficiently. Management reports
include:
• Specimen review reports
• Outstanding specimen and pending specimen reports
• Exception reports
• All management reports can be scheduled to automatically
compile and print.
Quality
Control
Quality Control (QC) features enable organizations to monitor the
accuracy of test results.
• Admit and discharge observation patients
• QC automatically ordered and captured via analyzed
routines
• QC specimen requisition and result entry features
• QC analysis reports, including:
- Levy-Jennings Plot with data summary
- On-line Cumulative Summary and Youden graphs
- Exception QC Results Report
- Daily Log
- Summary Report for user-selected date ranges
- Multi-Rule Log for controls exceeding
acceptable ranges.
Workload
and Result Statistics
Extensive statistical routines allow technologists to:
• Capture workload
• Create and capture population studies based on age,
gender, test methodologies
• Evaluate turnaround times.
For more information about us, contact a MEDITECH Marketing Representative
MEDITECH
Medical Information Technology, Inc.
MEDITECH Circle
Westwood, MA 02090
781-821-3000
www.meditech.com