Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics | Protis®

The Siemens Protis® Data Management System provides advanced laboratory workflow support and consolidates results from a number of Siemens instruments using a single interface between the LIS and BN™ II, BN ProSpec® and BEP 2000 Advance® Systems and a number of other platforms.

The software offers a broad range of assessment modules – such as iron and anemia, nutrition, cardiac risk, kidney disease and CSF – allowing doctors to diagnose and treat patients more effectively. Reports include test results, comprehensive diagrams and guidance on interpreting the results.

The software is available from Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics.

Beckman Coulter | HighFlexX

The Beckman Coulter HighFlexX middleware solution combines microbiology ID/AST testing using Beckman Coulter's LabPro®/WalkAway® systems with fast identification and classification of microorganisms based on the mass spectrometry (MALDI) and disk diffusion into a versatile integrated multi-instrument environment.

Users can retrieve and review patients, samples, isolates and results, print reports and manually add new orders. If desired, the software can manage a large amount of results, thus supporting long-term data retention.

The software facilitates MALDI testing and target management with an intuitive user interface for assigning isolates to MALDI targets and can propagate MALDI identifications to connected instruments for AST testing.

A flexible rule engine can be used to automatically and systematically apply rules to support custom workflows, review, hold and suppress AST results and add to comments with guidance on interpretations and workflow or therapy recommendations.

The software is available from Beckman Coulter.

Roche Diagnostics | cobas IT 5000 Module DocCard

Roche Diagnostics has conceived the ongoing consolidation process in today's clinical laboratories - often serving additional clients outside the hospital - and provides its customers with a flexible and powerful extension to the Roche cobas IT 5000 LIS solution. The DocCard module improves integration by managing order entry and result reporting for external clients and doctor's offices.

The software closely integrates with the existing laboratory information system and shares dictionary data as well as order forms already defined in the LIS. Laboratories can setup and configure any number of remote departments or doctor's offices. The software provides bi-directional interfaces for a number of doctor's office systems and other patient information systems to retrieve patient demographics and to upload results.

DocCard allows users to remotely enter orders using a convenient graphical user interface client which can be invoked from within the doctor's office system. Available order forms, individual profiles and the layout of sample labels can easily be managed in the laboratory.

The software is available from Roche Diagnostics Germany.