What's in it For:

 Doctors

  • Graphical representation of results and trends
  • Real-time test status monitor 
  • Allows real-time patient results to be readily available, improving the quality and delivery time of patient care
  • Low-cost, easy-to-use solution for the physician’s office
  • Easy new patient setup, quick and efficient order entry
  • Remote, anywhere access to test results (on smartphone and other mobile devices with appropriate security clearance)
  • Barcode label printing for order form and specimen labelling

Technologists

  • Easy new patient setup, quick and efficient order entry
  • Extensive online formulary 
  • Rules-based auto-verification
  • Automates the processing of specimens through all stages from order entry, processing, and workup to final reporting 

UHWI

  • Remote bar-coded label printing at the time of order entry
  • Low-cost, easy-to-use solution for the physician’s office
  • Easy new patient setup, quick and efficient order entry
  • Customizable screens to mimic requisitions currently in place
  • Extensive online formulary allows real-time patient results to be readily available, improving the quality and delivery time of patient care

Lab Administrators

  • Maintains a database of physician tables, patient lists, and test criteria for efficient access and single-source control
  • Full multisite consolidation
  • Flexible patient and management reporting
  • Specimen tracking
  • Critical result warning system
  • Call-management (e.g.  panic results)
  • Rules-based auto-verification 
  • Information is updated automatically and in real-time, making new critical patient data available instantly
  • Automates the processing of specimens through all stages from order entry, processing, and workup to final reporting
  • Allows generating media and tests based on ordering location  

HOD's

  • Quality Control is a strong feature of the LIS system
  • The system offers the potential for a paperless environment. This includes paperless workcards, result entry, and management reports
  • Infection control notification
  • workflow management tool
  • Ability to mine data for research and teaching

Student Doctors

  • The experience of working with a sophisticated world-class Lab Information System used by many of the large well known medical laboratories (or health services) in the world
  • An available LIS Learning environment

Bursary

  • Robust rules and logic engine to streamline client billing
  • Improves fiscal management by greatly improving charge capturing

 Faculty

  • Quality Control is a strong feature of the LIS system
  • The system offers the potential for a paperless solution
  • Infection control notification
  • The system is designed for unlimited scalability and flexibility, thus it has the potential to support as large an operation as the UWI might wish to maintain including multiple sites.
  • Facilitating collaboration with other Labs for teaching and research support