As world leaders in the development of Laboratory intelligent Decision Support (LiDS) applications, Pacific Knowledge Systems has appeared in several leading journals, and will continue to submit. Below you will find original articles, and links to journal websites where you can read what we and others are saying about LiDS. We welcome submissions from current users of articles they have prepared in published or unpublished format on info@pks.com.au.
 
 
 
Expert Systems for Clinical Pathology reporting (Clin Biochem Rev 2008 August)
 
"...At this time, LabWizard may be the only commercially available system for clinical laboratory report commenting. It supports the management of patient-specific laboratory reports and is designed around routine laboratory workflows. LabWizard is available as a rules engine package (where local biochemists supply the content) or expert content may be supplied...."

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Are you Ready for AI? (Technology and Business Magazine, September 2005)
 
"……...LabWizard uses an AI technique called Ripple Down Rules that makes it possible to create thousands of rules in natural language and filter data through them in ways that avoids the conflicts between rules that bedevil expert systems...…"

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Expert systems a feast for leaner laboratories (CAP Today, Jan. 2002)
 
"…… Using the LabWizard expert system from Pacific Knowledge Systems, Clinipath Laboratories, Perth, Australia, is autovalidating 70 to 95 percent of lab results in such areas as thyroid, lipid, sex hormones, chemistry, iron, hepatitis, serology, and prostate-specific antigen testing. …"
 
"…… Clinipath Labs in Australia uses its LabWizard system to add specialist pathologist opinions and recommendations to a range of pathology reports. These specialist opinions draw on present and historical results, tests in related areas, and clinical notes. …"

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Promise vs. Practice of Expert Systems (CAP Today, Nov. 2000)
 
"….."There's clearly some tension between the promise that expert systems technology has held out over the last 20 or 30 years and what it has actually achieved in real-world applications," says Glenn Edwards, MBBS, MD, a pathologist and CEO of Pacific Knowledge Systems, Sydney, Australia…"

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Pathology Information Systems (Today's Life Science Aug 2001)
 
"………..Today's clinicians are faced with the many challenges of patient consultation, processing and recalling large amounts of information, and making informed decisions on the patient's behalf, all within a restricted time period…………Expert systems technology has the potential to help alleviate this problem, and Pacific Knowledge Systems (PKS) have developed a product called LabWizard to address this………."

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Building Pathology for the future (AusIndustry magazine Jun 2001)
 
"…….With the help of AusIndustry's R&D Start and COMET grants, Pacific Knowledge Systems has developed their leading product, LabWizard™, the world's most intelligent pathology reporting system………"

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Clinical diagnostics industry addresses Internet challenge (Hot Topics in Healthcare website Apr 01)
 
"……..MIAMI, Florida - The Internet is impacting many industries in a variety of sometimes unanticipated ways, and health care is no exception………"

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