Better information sharing
 
LabWizard™ is our lead product and the most advanced pathology interpretation tool on the market. LabWizard™ helps you add intelligent patient specific comments to your clinical reports automatically.
 
         Intelligent Decision Support vs Conventional LIS Rules
  …."When for example, such limited rules in an LIS trigger on a high cholesterol or triglyceride result and offer a comment that goes no further than "common causes of raised lipids are genetics, diabetes, obesity" and so on, that's pretty shallow says Dr Edwards. "That level of functionality, that level of comment, is not very specific, and it betrays a lack of depth that is often reflected in the response of clinicians, which is by and large to ignore such comments, or even to actively critique them…."

Pacific Knowledge systems CEO Dr Glenn Edwards (reported in CAP today November 2000) describing the difficulties faced by labs using reflexed canned comments.

 
 

Become a more valuable clinical partner.
Deliver greater value without greater cost.
 
Modern medicine is making greater demands than ever on today's laboratories. Clients are more demanding, and want your help in making diagnoses. Labs delivering just test results risk becoming providers of commodities, with lowered margins, and reputation.
 
Become a more valuable clinical partner
 
Modern medicine demands that you provide more than just numerical results. A request for a pathology consultation is a request for;
 
  • Patient-specific interpretive reports,
  • Advice to referring clinicians about diagnosis, treatment and follow-up testing, and;
  • Reference to the latest clinical practice guidelines.
LabWizard™ lets you provide tailored patient-specific reports putting the labs expertise in the clinicians hands - your reports won't be ignored.
 
Build a better business through better decision support
 
  • Guide your client clinicians in their ordering patterns for all the right reasons. You know that many doctors struggle with the complex issues they encounter, often reordering inappropriate tests, unaware of better tests. Your business improves when you help correct this, and promote testing interval compliance - on all reports.
  • Free your best people from manual review processes, and return them to valuable tasks.
  • Let LabWizard assist to reduce revenue losses. By searching patient history at testing time, LabWizard™ can capture information lost during data entry, (such as medication, or disease status), vital for billing compliance.
  • Build stronger relationships by recognizing clients and tailoring their reports, (e.g. customize reports based on the location, referring doctor or specialist).
Differentiate yourself by delivering information - not just numbers
 
LabWizard™ a change for the better
 
Clinicians need better reports. They want interpretations and recommendations that are useful to them and their patients. You want to help but without the high cost of employment.
 
LabWizard™ helps your practice meet these demands, without increasing turnaround time, or employing more staff. It's a change for the better:

Better use of personnel and resources.
Better client relationships.
Better pathology practice.
 
LIS Toolkit
 
LabWizard™ is part of an innovative LIS toolkit designed to enhance the interpretation and reporting of pathology results.
 
Based on patented RippleDown technology, PKS and leaders in the fields of pathology, artificial technology, and software implementation, built LabWizard™ to add maximum impact to your reports without interfering with the lab workflow.
 
LabWizard™ components
 
  • the client, installed on a standard lab PC allows you to see LabWizard enhanced comments on your existing Validator or our graphical Validator, during the patient test review process.
 
  • the server, managing the Knowledge base, and interface to the Lab Information system
  • and the Knowledge Builder allowing an authorised user to maintain the projects of rules and comments for each clinical area reported.
 
Free your IT staff
 
Since LabWizard™ is learning as you correct the interpretations, the knowledge base grows as cases are reported, and is managed in the lab by pathologists, not programmers.
 
Building new comments
 

……"The process is based on comparing and contrasting real reports the pathologist would see in his or her routine work and on eliciting from the user the key features of those reports and how they are distinguished" ……

(G. Edwards, CAP Today Nov. 2000)
 
Better use of your time
 
Access all relevant patient information on 1 screen
 
LabWizard™ Validator combines all the information and history you need to make your interpretation, without multiple keystrokes.
 
Providing meaningful information to a clinician about their patient, requires you to make a whole of patient interpretation, not simply comment on the results of one test. To gather this information together usally means you have to navigate multiple screens, and query your database - what a chore.
 
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Validator frees you. It provides all the relevant information you need and is easily configured to give more when needed. Don't deprive patients of their best possible care because your LIS is inflexible!