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Please note: Articles and announcements below refer to products by their prior names, which changed upon company acquisition. Products such as Sunquest Laboratory™ and other names listed in the Company Logos section of this web site were Misys products prior to October 2007. Sunquest Information Systems, Inc. and any Affiliate or Subsidiary is not affiliated with any member of the Misys Group of Companies.
February 2005
Advance for Administrators of the Laboratory
The article, "Navigating to Lab Automation," reports the University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City, whose clinical laboratory performs 1.2 million billed tests annually, upgrades its Laboratory system with SMART. Smart (Specimen Management Routing and Tracking) gives the provider unique sample ID and specimen tracking capability. Says author Vicki Parsons, assistant director, University of Kansas Hospital Clinical Laboratory, "...With SMART, we are able to fully utilize the capabilities of the automation line."
October 2004
Health Imaging & IT
In "PACS at Sacred Heart Hospital Reduces Costs, Staff and Boosts Volume," byline co-authors Belle Rodrigues RT(R), director of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, and Megan Turk RT(R), PACS administrator, tout the cost and time management benefits achieved in using Misys (now Sunquest) Image Management (PACS) technology in their high-volume diagnostic imaging department. Sacred Heart Hospital is a 243-bed Catholic medical center in central Allentown, Pa. The subsequent installation of Radiology and PACS Integration Modules will promote a seamless exchange of information with the PACS.
September 2004
Advance for Administrators of the Laboratory
"In Do No Harm: The Lab's Role in Improving Patient Safety," Misys (now Sunquest) Laboratory Collection Manager is listed among "products for patient safety." The clinical lab software uses handheld technology devices to assist healthcare professionals in automating specimen collection and print labeling at the bedside. ThedaCare, a JCAHO-accredited integrated delivery network serving Northeastern Wisconsin, is among the first Misys customers to use Collection Manager within their daily laboratory workflow.
August 2004
Advance for Health Information Executives
Misys (now Sunquest Pharmacy and Insight are featured in "Pursuing the Paperless Pharmacy," a story about Indianapolis-based Community Health Network's pharmacy department's validation of what it already knows: an automated, paper-light medication administration process increases patient safety, enhances patient care, improves the clinician work environment, and reduces costs. Author Steve Hultgren, R.Ph., director of pharmacy at CHN, writes, "The pharmacy system had proved itself to be easy to learn, intuitive to use and capable of delivering the functionality we needed. So, rather than switch to our medical record vendor's pharmacy solution, we decided to interface Pharmacy to the medical record system."
July 2004
Healthcare Informatics
The article "Lab Information Systems: Testing, Testing" explores the role of lab information technology in today's hospital electronic medical record environment. Quoted are Misys (now Sunquest) client Walter H. Henricks, M.D., medical director of Laboratory Information Services, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Excerpt: Henricks, whose Cleveland lab sums up: "The laboratory is at a point where it's critically dependent on its information systems. Smaller, less complicated labs can get away with smaller, less complicated systems. We're a complex lab, and we need a workhorse."
June 2004
Advanced for Administrators of the Laboratory
Misys (now Sunquest) Commercial Laboratory and Clinical Financial solutions are helping Austin-based Clinical Pathology Laboratories (CPL) gain a competitive edge in many ways, including: regulatory compliance, productivity enhancements, scalability, expansion, and strategic management and planning. CPL has grown from 1,500 patients a day to 17,000; one facility in one city to 29 facilities in nine states; and 4,000 tests per day to 45,000 tests per day. The systems have made the growth possible. The case-study article, "Sustaining Growth, Profitability for Clinical Pathology," is co-written by David Schultz, president, and Judy Denney, chief information officer, CPL.
March 2004
Health Management Technology
Gary V. Catarella, corporate director of lab services for Meridian Health, Neptune, N.J., is the author of "Proof of Profitability." According to Catarella, maintaining profitability in the face of competition is not easy. For healthcare in general--and hospital-based labs in particular--it's even harder thanks to prospective payment, DRGs and managed care. To stay afloat, laboratories are competing for new markets such as outreach testing: providing lab services for outpatients, physicians' offices, nursing homes, assisted living facilities and managed care organizations. Located in Neptune, N.J., Jersey Shore University Medical Center (JSUMC) is part of Meridian Health, a leader in the area's delivery of health services, providing services at more than 72 locations, for a total 1,291 acute inpatient, 234 nursing home and 70 rehabilitation beds. Meridian Health performs nearly 2 million laboratory tests each year, half of them at JSUMC, the core laboratory of the system. Using Misys (now Sunquest) Laboratory for 10 years, Comprehensive Outreach Solutions including the Outreach module, Consulting Services and Encompass, JSUMC is achieving significant growth with its outreach program. Says Catarella, "During the first year of our outreach program, we achieved 15 percent growth in procedures with the addition of eight new physician office groups. In 2002, the outreach program client list rose to 23 and had reached 40 by November 2003. As of the end of 2003, we were 5 percent above our target number of procedures; we have generated $1 million in contributed income."
Health Imaging & IT
The article "RIS: More than Managing Information" quotes Misys (now Sunquest) Radiology customer Travis Turner, manager of radiology and director of PACS, Catskill Regional Medical Center, a 175-bed facility in Harris, N.Y. Says Turner: "With new technology comes an amount of interfacing that needs to be streamlined and centralized toward the new EMR. Having a RIS is key to this ultimate integration."
February 2004
Barbara Whitter, product manager, Clinical Financial, comments on how managing and measuring financial performance may well be a lab manager's most pressing responsibility in the article, "Expanding Role to Financial Manager." "It is a whole new level of responsibility than lab managers may not have been responsible for in the past," says Whitter. "Most administrators started with traditional technical training, which included very little finance. It is very challenging for the lab managers to act in this dual role that they now have as both a financial as well as a technical manager."
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