Blog Posts by Tag: Digital Pathology
Improve Your Lab Efficiency by Integrating Your EHR and LIS
Advances in patient care continue to accelerate at record levels. Concurrent with this trend, digitized laboratory information systems (LIS) and electronic health records (EHR) are becoming even more essential for managing patient information—and improving the quality of care. Integrating these two systems can help streamline laboratory operations and improve overall efficiency.But not everyone...
Avoiding LIS Disruptions: Applying Lessons Learned from Southwest Airlines
This blog expands on the impact related to a recent blog, "What Can Medical Providers Learn from the Southwest Airlines Fiasco." If you missed that blog, we encourage you to read it. In healthcare, especially laboratory testing, a significant percentage of medical decisions are based on test results. Laboratory test results influence approximately 70% of medical decisions that are made by...
Tired of Hidden Charges from Your LIS Vendor?
One of the most common complaints from laboratory executives is hidden charges that they face from their LIS providers. In our recent LIS State of the Industry Survey, a common theme among respondents was the cost of their LIS and the unpredictable charges they often face.Laboratory leaders routinely see unexpected charges for: Hardware/server upgrades Operating system upgrades Security...
Top 5 Blog Posts of 2022
As always, XiFin's Beyond Billing blog kept abreast of key issues and hot topics within the healthcare industry, staying especially in tune with legislative proposals that can potentially impact reimbursement and revenue.Here are the top blogs of 2022, with far-ranging topics that include PAMA and SALSA, the No Surprises Act, digital pathology, and revenue cycle management. 1. Laboratory Test...
It’s Important to Know How Your LIS Stacks Up. Take This Survey to Find Out.
The laboratory information system (LIS) plays a vital role in diagnostics. The LIS is the workhorse of the lab and is vital to day-to-day workflow and functionality. This essential system supports operational efficiency, testing capacity, timely specimen reporting, analytics, and business reporting.Many labs continue to use homegrown or on-premise systems that do not take advantage of the many...
Take a Long, Hard Look at Your LIS
Laboratory testing is always changing with new technologies and ever-expanding test menus that have complex requirements around reporting, authorizations, reimbursements, and specimen processing. All of these changes impact your laboratory information system (LIS). To thrive in this dynamic environment, you need an LIS that can keep up with industry changes, throughput requirements, user...
Pathology Laboratories Need Unique LIS Capabilities
Anatomic pathology laboratories receive multiple specimen types including pathology, IHC, molecular, next-gen sequencing, FLOW, cytogenetics, FISH, clinical trials, and specialty testing. This is why anatomic pathology laboratories require a sophisticated laboratory information system (LIS) with enhanced capabilities that can manage everything from routine to highly complex cases. The right...
New CPT Digital Pathology Codes Help Make the Case for AI-Driven Digital Pathology Workflows
Updated August 2, 2022. The College of American Pathologists (CAP), working with the American Medical Association (AMA) CPT Editorial Panel, has successfully advocated for the inclusion of (13) new digital pathology add-on codes to be effective January 1, 2023. According to the CAP, these new digital pathology CPT codes will be “used to report additional clinical staff work and service...
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