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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Simplify Your Pathology Workflow Through Speech Recognition and LIS Integration

Physicians, pathologists, and laboratory technicians rely on laboratory information systems (LIS) to manage workloads and streamline the operational efficiency of the laboratory. However, they are often still tied to their keyboards when it comes to documenting sample descriptions, observations, test findings, and diagnoses. Thousands (or even millions) of data points can be recorded in and...

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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...

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Considerations When Selecting an LIS for Gynecologic Cytology and Molecular Testing

Laboratories leaders investigating LIS solutions for Gynecologic Cytology and Molecular testing need dynamic solutions that meet all productivity and efficiency goals and regulatory requirements. Other essential factors include cytotech reporting, automated quality control review and reporting, pathology oversight and reporting, Bethesda reporting guidelines, management reporting, lookback...

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