Press Releases

 
Corporate 


August 25, 2008 
Sunquest CoPathPlus 4.0 Anatomic Pathology System Now Available


August 18, 2008
Sunquest Names David M. Post as Vice President of Strategic Programs


June 16, 2008
Sunquest Announces $4.6M Sale to ACL Laboratories for Sunquest CoPathPlus & LIS for Enterprise Standardization and Integration


 June 16, 2008
Sunquest’s Patty Miller Receives CLMA Member of the Year Award


June 9, 2008
Sunquest Submits 510(k) Premarket Notification for Transfusion Management Solution


June 6, 2008
Sunquest Presents Latest Laboratory & Diagnostic Information Technology Solutions at Futurescape of Pathology Conference 2008


June 3, 2008
CentraCare’s St. Cloud Hospital of Central Minnesota Achieves Patient Safety Goals with Sunquest Collection Management System 


June 2, 2008
Sunquest Announces Lab Software Sale to MultiCare Health System for their New Affiliated Good Samaritan Hospital Site


May 13, 2008
Sunquest Laboratory Software & Services Awarded Approved Supplier Status on the ASCC Framework from NHS Connecting for Health 


May 12, 2008
Sunquest Announces $1.1 Million Lab Software Expansion at Sutter Health


May 6, 2008
Sunquest Names Russell W. Duke as Executive Consultant for its Lean Lab Outreach Strategies 


April 30, 2008
Sunquest Highlights Patient Safety with Barcode POC Collection at unSUMMIT 2008 Conference


April 28, 2008
Sunquest Expands Global Market Presence with New London Office


April 21, 2008
MediCorp Health System of Fredericksburg, Virginia Selects Sunquest Laboratory Information System for its New Stafford Hospital Center


April 9, 2008
Sunquest Presents Laboratory Information System and Solutions at Lab InfoTech Summit 2008


April 8, 2008
Sunquest Names Healthcare Industry Veteran Kelly A. Feist as Vice President of Marketing


March 25, 2008
Global Healthcare Technology Leader Sunquest Wins Workplace Excellence Award of Greater Tucson for 2008


March 5, 2008
Sunquest Announces Lab Software Sale to Cancer Treatment Centers of America’s Future Medical Center in Arizona


February 19, 2008
Sunquest Customers Present Real-World Solutions to Improving Productivity and Patient Safety at HIMSS08

 


 

February 12, 2008
Sunquest’s New Collection Manager 3.0 Helps Automate Specimen Collection and Improve Patient Safety

 


 

January 29, 2008
Sunquest Contracts with LA County Medical Center for Major Services Project

 


 

January 28, 2008
Sunquest Demonstrates Latest Laboratory Information System Software for Hospitals at Arab Health Conference

 


January 22, 2008
Sunquest and mTuitive Integrate Sunquest CoPathPlus Anatomic Pathology Software and mTuitive xPert for Pathology

 


December 17, 2007
Sunquest Laboratory™ Named ‘Best in KLAS’ for Fourth Consecutive Year with Healthcare IT Providers

 


December 4, 2007
Sunquest Increases Investment and Expands Development and Marketing Plans for its Sunquest CoPathPlus Anatomic Pathology Software


November 27, 2007
Sunquest Announces Lab Software Sale to TriCore Reference Laboratories of New Mexico to Serve Eight Regional Hospitals 


November 20, 2007
Sunquest Announces New Investment and Market Focus for its Radiology Information System

 


 

October 30, 2007
Sunquest Announces $1.8 Million Lab Software Sale to Consolidate Multi-Hospital Network from Legacy Software


October 22, 2007
New Orleans Children's Hospital adds Sunquest Laboratory and Sunquest Encompass in a $1.4M System to Improve Care of Louisiana Children
  

 



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.

 

October 11, 2007
Sunquest Corporation Reemerges as Vista Equity Partners Completes Acquisition of Diagnostics Systems from Misys   

 

Product Announcements

 

August 2008

Sunquest CoPathPlus™ v4.0

Sunquest Information Systems, a proven leader in diagnostic data management, is pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) of Sunquest CoPathPlus™ v4.0. Sunquest’s pathology solution will help to better serve care providers inside and outside the laboratory by enabling high quality patient care while enhancing productivity and reducing costs. In addition, this release represents a major milestone for the new Sunquest, as we lay the foundation for our future in molecular and digital pathology. Highlighted below are a few of the capabilities now available:

Automation/Specimen Workflow enhancements

Specimen and procedure billing charges can be associated to a pathologist or the primary cytology reviewer.

Engraver Manager allows for the incorporation of 2D barcodes onto slides and cassettes, provides additional command controls plus allows for a greater number of hoppers per labeling device.

Report Delivery and Format improvements

Multiple Fax Agents are supported on a single CoPathPlus system

Updates to inbound, outbound and billing interfaces to improve result delivery

and reimbursement.

HL7 Results Interface with embedded image of patient report (MIME Data) that can be stored as a PDF file.

Security and Management features

Better control of password requirements

Additional privileges within QA permissions, system settings, printing of “unsigned” reports, purging and assignment of numbers

Standard Infomaker Reports additions

 

February 2008

 

Sunquest Collection Manager™ v3.0

Sunquest’s bedside collection system, Sunquest Collection Manager (CLM) allows Laboratories to automate the specimen collection process and ensure accurate patient identification and specimen labeling, enabling more efficient collections, reducing medical errors and improving patient safety. The v3.0 release includes:

·          Platform flexibility— multiple platforms of handheld devices and laptops

·          Supports “no orders” for Emergency Department (ED) workflow and offers a temporary label for scanned patients that don’t have LIS orders.

·          Streamlines installation—Upgrades the CLM installation process, so that installation prompts only need to be answered once for all devices.

·          Reports CLM error to the LIS—allows troubleshooting of the CLM product from the LIS system.

·          Migration to .NET technology

 

December 2007

 

Sunquest CoPathPlus™ v2.5
More news affirming our commitment to delivering quality pathology applications!  Sunquest is pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) of Sunquest CoPathPlus™ v2.5. This release combines the functionality of basic Cerner CoPathPlus 2.5 with a variety of exciting new Sunquest-built capabilities. Sunquest is again helping clients serve caregivers inside and outside the laboratory walls by addressing the critical needs of our customers to improve productivity and reduce costs.

Included in this release are capabilities to increase productivity through workflow automation:

·          Interfaces to Histology equipment

·          Order cytology procedures based on rules – Reflex Testing

·          Streamlined structured data reporting – mTuitive Integration

·          Reference Lab Integration

·          Capture critical cytology data fields electronically thru Order Entry Interface

·          Improve report delivery and format

·          Assist with regulatory guidelines, including NPI and CAP Cancer Protocols.

 

 

Sunquest Laboratory™ SMART Select

In July Sunquest announced availability of Sunquest Laboratory™, release 6.3.0. In combination with that release, Sunquest is pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) of SMART Select. The SMART and SMART Select modules provide customers specimen automated routing and tracking capabilities that improve both their efficiencies and productivity while reducing costs. This new module provides a core set of capabilities for those customers that have robotics and/or automation that require a more economical option as well as includes technological improvements to maximize their investment. SMART SELECT will be sold with both services and training along with software. Of great excitement is that customers who buy this new module in combination with the Lab 6.3.0 release can also leverage the new capability only available from Sunquest for accepting external specimen information that allows hospital laboratories to improve their outreach business efficiencies (Advanced Accessioning).

 

July 2007

 

Laboratory 6.3.0

We are pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) of Laboratory Release 6.3.0, the newest version of our market-leading Diagnostic Enterprise clinical products designed to meet your business needs. As a proven leader in the Diagnostic Enterprise, we are again helping clients serve caregivers inside and outside the clinical laboratory walls by addressing the critical needs of our customers to improve productivity and reduce costs. Included in this release are capabilities to:

Increase productivity through automation / workflow

·          Advanced Labeling

·          Advanced Accessioning

·          Rules Maintenance enhancements

·          Improved billing for Electronic Crossmatch

·          Assist with regulatory guidelines

·          Decrease hardware costs through technology improvements

·          Server consolidation

In addition, we have added more than thirty Special Interest Group enhancements that span Billing, Instruments, Microbiology, Ad Hoc, Application Interfacing, and General Lab SIGs.


 

January 2007

 

Commercial Laboratory v3.5.0

It is with great pleasure that we announce the general availability of Commercial Laboratory v3.5.0 which provides regulatory compliance and additional ease of administration.  This release combines the features of all earlier versions and adds enhancements, resolutions, and new features.   Some enhancement highlights of this release:

·          Results Entry will capture the user’s SSID along with the date and time upon each entry and release. 

·          Test codes will be capture the instrument ID and will be viewable and printable from Inquiry.

·          Test codes will reflect the reference ranges at the time of order.

·          Results entry/release audits will be accessible via regular Inquiry or on microfiche/archival storage media after collection and purge.

 


 
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