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3/10/2008 |
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In October of 2007, the story of a woman who mas mistakenly diagnosed with a very aggressive form of breast cancer who then underwent surgery for a double masectomy, only to later find out she never had cancer, was in the news. .. |
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4/5/2007 |
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Laboratories can benefit from interfaces between the Laboratory Information Systems (LIS) and the Electronic Medical Records system (EMR) ... |
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A hospital or laboratory information system offers many advantages from increased efficiency to better compliance. A well integrat... |
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Why
medical facilities should invest in information systems / software
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hospital or laboratory information system offers many advantages
from increased efficiency to better compliance. A well integrated
system can touch many areas of the lab, from specimen receiving
to delivery of results – it can eliminate a huge amount
of typing in histology, with instrument interfaces,it can
make transcriptionreview of reports much easier, streamline
delivery of results, increase tracking points, and provide
a way to reviewing statistics and show how well the lab is
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Error reduction:
One of the most important things a good medical software package offers is error reduction. In today’s world, hospitals and labs are very busy, people have to work around the clock to deliver timely patient care, and in that high-volume, quick turnaround environment, labs need to implement processes and computer systems to help reduce errors. Handling patient information in primitive ways, without a good computer system offers many risks to especially high-volume institutions. A good example is labs where information is hand-written on slide labels. These are labs which do processing on tissue or fluids using chemicals, and hand-written slide labels can be deformed by those chemicals, and therefore become hard to read. The fact that it takes employee time to handwrite data has financial effects – however, more importantly, hand-writing data may affect patient care as well.
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