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

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.