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iSOFT Laboratory Management solutions provide you with fast, safe and effective information sharing across the entire laboratory process.

Encompassing specialist functionality for blood sciences, transfusion medicine, cellular pathology and microbiology operations, our laboratory solutions provide a way to simplify the management of your laboratory.

Designed to improve workflow and able to give managers complete visibility over operations, iSOFT Laboratory solutions are fully customizable to your specific requirements and can scale to address expanding and multi-site laboratory organizations.

More than just a system for connecting your analyzer equipment, producing results and recording statistics for routine tasks, our Laboratory Management solutions are designed to help you improve organisational efficiency and provide the highest standards of safety and quality.

Key Benefits

• Comprehensive information management
• Automates processes
• Shares information between laboratories and care providers
• Improves efficiency
• Streamlines communication
• Patient focused
• Guides users through complex analysis processes with intelligent workflows
• Multi-site capability
• Powerful reporting
• Provides specialist functionality for each discipline

Solution Overview

Clinical Laboratory
Improve your sample management efficiency read more...

Transfusion Medicine
Simplify your routine blood bank procedures read more...

Microbiology
Standardise, automate and improve your microbiology processes read more...

Fast and Reliable Communication
Utilise paperless order requests and transmit results with a faster, more reliable communication system read more...

Quality Management
Respond to the demand for high quality laboratory services with efficient resource management  read more...

Linking Laboratories
Put complex organisational concepts into practice read more...

DRG support
Supplement medical records by deriving diagnosis from laboratory analysis results read more...

Billing
Reduce your workload with integrated accountancy tools read more...

Statistics and Evaluation
Enable a wide range of evaluations and keep track of your data read more...

Solution Detail

Clinical laboratory

Improve your sample management efficiency with our clinical laboratory tools.

• Print secondary barcodes for sub classification at any time
• Scan samples directly into specifically defined locations
• Configure ordering and report functions individually
• Display and integrate result graphics into reports
• Identify and correct errors early with integrated alerting function
• Improve quality control with automatic warning messages
• Record every activity with a full audit trail
• Dispatch, monitor and evaluate referrals to off-site laboratories efficiently
• Integrate off-site laboratories and physicians via HL7

Transfusion Medicine

Our blood bank module simplifies your routine procedures to ensure an efficient and safe workflow.

• Define individual routine templates for recording results
• Book samples in easily 
• Utilise electronic delivery notes
• Find patient records and blood preserves quickly
• Produce and manage both patient and external blood products
• Support the validation process with an online recording system and integrated document management system
• Integrate billing and management systems
• Comply with blood group and blood product management legal guidelines

Microbiology

iSOFT Laboratory solutions help improve your work processes by standardising and automating key functions. Multiple configuration options let you remodel complex microbiology processes and automate follow-up requests.

• Automate test reactions and requests for follow ups
• Adapt criteria and assessment rules to individual laboratory requirements
• Scalable to encompass all microbiology requirements
• Configure starter sets for frequently requested examinations
• Show complex work processes in a clear structure
• Carry out plausibility control when checking results
• Automate comparison of standard reaction patterns and incompatibilities
• Highlight reportable diseases automatically

Fast and Reliable Communication

Our Laboratory solutions create a faster, more reliable communication system between hospitals and laboratories. You can utilise paperless order requests and transmit results irrespective of the existing hospital information system.

• Interface with external order placers
• Print barcode labels specifically for the patient and the requested examination.
• Check results quickly 
• Print out daily results with updated readings
• Transmit results to the hospital information system
• Track clinical findings and the availability of blood products
• Facilitate decentralised point-of-care testing
• Assess results with individualised patient reference values
• View patient readings as cumulative graphics

Quality management

Our comprehensive quality management tools can create method related Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and make them available throughout the system. This allows your hospitals and laboratories to be more competitive and respond to increasing demand for high quality laboratory services with more efficient resource management.

• View patient records and track samples from every department
• Store any type of document in the central archive
• Control individual access rights
• Administer all equipment and workstations centrally
• Issue automatic reminders for impending service and maintenance deadlines
• Record use of equipment during daily routines

Linking laboratories

iSOFT Laboratory solutions let you put complex organisational resource utilisation concepts into practice. 

• Form one single organisational and technical unit from laboratories based in separate buildings
• Link workstations to a central server
• Eliminate internal interfaces with a uniform data structure
• Provide a wider range of services
• Use equipment more economically
• Create a modern and effective back-up system with high availability and system stability

DRG Assistant

The iSOFT DRG Assistant can supplement medical records by deriving diagnoses directly from your laboratory analysis results.

• Identify potential special diagnoses automatically 
• Help medical staff optimise their diagnostics

Billing

Our integrated accountancy tools reduce your workload by automating invoicing for billing, including within private pathology providers, for health insurance reimbursement, and for collective invoices.

• Calculate parts of an order separately and divide automatically
• Facilitate any number of physicians, cost units, tariff tables and account regulations.
• Automatically draw up bills
• Automatically issue reminders and follow-ups

Statistics and evaluation

iSOFT Laboratory solutions enable a wide range of evaluations and can be used to keep track of the large amount of data held in your laboratory.

• Evaluate any aspect of the recorded data
• Answer standard questions with one click of a button
• Provide users with a systematic and informative analysis
• Display statistics in a way that meets users’ own individual needs
• Store evaluation results for later processing
• Print or export or all data
• Allocate specific statistics to precise user groups