news@orchard Archive

Issues: 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000

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2013 Issues

	Winter 2013 Orchard Copia Helps Blount Memorial Hospital Compete with Reference Labs Where in the World is Orchy? Diagnostic Information: The New Currency in the Future of Healthcare Orchard Training – Staying Ahead of the Curve Feature Focus: Sample Tracking in Orchard Harvest LIS v9.0 Tech Tip: Control How Information is Displayed in Orchard Harvest LIS and Orchard Pathology Employee Spotlight: Susan Oman, National Accounts Manager Announcing Orchard 2013 Symposium: June 13th in Portland, Oregon

2012 Issues

	Fall 2012 San Mateo County's Public Health Laboratory Utilizes Information System Harvest LIS to Support Clinical & Environmental Where in the World is Orchy? Employee Spotlight: Martha Lail, Systems Engineer Articles You Don't Want to Miss Feature Focus: LOINC and Your LIS Orchard Pulls a Boeing 757 for Charity Tech Tip: General Maintenance Guidance for Orchard Harvest LIS and Orchard Pathology CAP Fall Meeting Summary by Dr. Mick Glant: The Conversation is About Getting Structured

	Summer 2012 Hamilton Memorial Successfully Attests Stage 1 Meaningful Use Orchard Symposium 2012: Register Today! Employee Spotlight: David Hardwick, Senior Software Engineer Where in the World is Orchy? Feature Focus: ICD-10 Update Now Available Tech Tip: Auto Start Clients Feature Provides Maximum Uptime for Client Workstations Orchard’s Blog Series on Accountable Care Organizations Tech Tip: Email STAT Notifications in Orchard Copia Provide Efficiency to Ordering Laboratories View Your Technical Support Tickets Online Orchard Trellis: Bridging the Gap between POC Testing and Your EMR

	Spring 2012 A Boston Research Laboratory Makes Use of Orchard Harvest LIS Where in the World is Orchy? Employee Spotlight: Jamie Lawson, Project Manager Free NCD File Updates for Orchard Customers Orchard Symposium 2012 – New Format Featuring All of Orchard’s Products Announcing Orchard Trellis: Our New Product for Integrating Remote POC Testing Access Copia on the Go with the Orchard Copia Mobile Module! Orchard Harvest LIS, Orchard Pathology v9.0 Are Released!

	Winter 2012 Orchard Copia: Baptist Health System's Lab Integration Solution Where in the World is Orchy? Employee Spotlight: Sarah Crabtree, Accounts Payable Specialist Orchard Harvest LIS and Orchard Pathology v9.0 Are Coming! Orchard Copia v5.0 to be Released Q1 2012 Hardware Requirements for v9.0 Orchard Continues Support for the Special Olympics of Indiana

2011 Issues

	Fall 2011 Where in the World is Orchy? Employee Spotlight: Christine Stalcup, Marketing Media Specialist Feature Focus: Mirror Server Redundancy Features in Harvest LIS Tech Tip: Pivot Tables in the Result Browser New Releases Coming in 2012! 2012 Training Class Schedule Register Now for Online Tutorials What's Going on Orchard's Blog, colLABoration New ABN Form Template

	Summer 2011 Graves-Gilbert Harvest the Power of Rules in their Orchard LIS Where in the World is Orchy? Tech Tip: Orchard Harvest LIS Security Employee Spotlight: Bob Clevenger, Project Manager Orchard Client Account Management Changes Tech Tip: Pre-Analysis of Medical Necessity Customer Service Made Easy with Copia's Client Services Module Dr. Michael D. Glant Joins Orchard ICD-10 is Coming! Orchard Harvest LIS Receives ONC-ATCB Certification

	Spring 2011 Orchard Helps MTPHL with Electronic Lab Reporting Confused about LOINC? Where in the World is Orchy? Employee Spotlight: Chris Livengood, Senior Technical Writer Orchard Training Update: 2011 Symposium Postponed ONC's Proposed Criteria Meaningful Use for Stage 2 Tech Tips: A Resource For You Feature Focus: PDF Encryption Are You Attending CLMA ThinkLab '11? ICD-10 Coding Physician Signature Rule Update

	Winter 2011 Central Ohio Primary Care Doubles Growth with the Support of Harvest LIS Employee Spotlight: Kelly Rusch: Western Regional Sales Manager Where in the World is Orchy? Tech Tip: Saved Criteria Copia Boasts Multi-level Security Features Feature Focus: Using the Spell Checker and AP Dictionary Orchard Reorganizes Technical Support to Maximize Customer Care Join us at CLMA ThinkLab ’11 Sponsored by Orchard Software, May 22-25, 2011 in Baltimore, Maryland! Orchard Symposium 2011–New Format Featuring All Our Products

2010 Issues

	Fall 2010 Morrill County Community Hospital: QC Made Easy with Harvest LIS Where in the World is Orchy? Employee Spotlight: Geoff Ginther: Tech Supoort Team Leader Feature Focus: User Defined Fields Offer More Flexibility with Data Storage Tech Tip: Using Label Printing Rules in Copia An Update on ARRA/HITECH Stimulus, EMR Certification, and Meaningful Use Searching Orchard's Online Forums Tech Tip: Patient Photos Orchard’s Ninth Symposium Held in Our Own Backyard!

	Summer 2010 ITxM Diagnostics Views Harvest LIS and Copia as an “Administrator’s Dream” Where in the World is Orchy? Employee Spotlight: Craig Henson: Copia Project Manager Tech Tip: Rejecting and Deleting Orders Feature Focus: Test Patients Tech Tip: Automatically Include Historical Results on Orchard Pathology Worksheet Positive Specimen Identification for Anatomic Pathology Orchard Software Launches Blog—colLABoration An Update on ARRA, EMR/EHR Certification Rules, and Meaningful Use Criteria Orchard’s Fall Symposium will take place in our own backyard!

	Spring 2010 Orchard and the University of Ontario Team up to Prepare the Next Generation of Medical Technologists News@orchard is Now Available Via Email! Employee Spotlight: Daphne Davis: Systems Engineer Training Manager Tech Tip: Min and Max Functions Feature Focus: Orchard Harvest LIS v8.5 Offers Many Benefits Tech Tip: Customizing the Look of Copia Where in the World is Orchy? Orchard’s 2010 Spring Symposium is Coming to North Carolina What Does “Meaningful Use” Mean to Laboratories? Introducing Orchard’s Online Tutorials

	Winter 2010 Orchard® Harvest™ LIS’ Flexibility Helps Deliver Individualized Patient Care at Hanover Medical Specialists Where in the World is Orchy? Employee Spotlight: Matt Pollock: HL7 Interface Implementation Manager Tech Tip: Blank Requisitions in Copia Configuring Harvest LIS 8.5 as a Laboratory Monitor How Do You Celebrate National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week? The Orchard at the Orchard Orchard Copia Training Classes Now Available

2009 Issues

	Fall 2009 Orchard® Harvest™ LIS Easily Handles Hagyard’s Uniqueness Employee Spotlight: Roland Soe: Installation Project Manager Feature Focus: TWAIN Document Linking in Orchard® Copia® Tech Tip: Documenting Critical Results, Abnormal Results, or STAT Orders When Approving Orchard Harvest LIS Version 8.5 is Now Available! Where in the World is Orchy? Announcing New Sales Channel Partners with Orchard

	Summer 2009 Business Running Smoothly at Cumberland Medical Laboratories Where in the World is Orchy? Employee Spotlight: Lauri Evans: Senior Software Test Analyst Tech Tip: Adding Color to Text of Cells in Column Views Orchard Software Named a Top Workplace in 2009 Contact Your Account Manager to Reserve Your Seat in Advanced User Training Swarming Bees Take a Rest at the Orchard! Feature Focus: Customizable Data Grids Provide Convenience for AP and Molecular Resulting Houston, Texas, to Host Orchard's Fall Symposium Don't Miss Orchard in September at COLA and G2

	Spring 2009 Wabash Community Hospital Uses Harvest LIS to Do More with Less Where in the World is Orchy? Employee Spotlight: Nancy Stoker: Application Specialist Announcing Orchard Copia 4.5! Tech Tip: Copia Remote Printing Orchard is Coming to the Northeast for Our Spring 2009 Symposium! Feature Focus: Check Out the New Features for Form Letters in Harvest LIS 8.0 Harvest the Power of Our New Training Center Tech Tip: Printing Labels Automatically in Release Stored Orders Are you attending CLMA ThinkLab ’09?

	Winter 2009 Orchard Harvest LIS/Copia Combination Improves Access and Efficiency at Texas Oncology Where in the World is Orchy? Employee Spotlight: Dale Burrows: Field Project Manager Tech Tip: Customizing the Date and Time within Harvest LIS Feature Focus: Harvest LIS Layout Templates Announcing the New Orchard Account Manager Team—Focusing on Service for You! Orchard Announces Its 2009 Training Schedule—Copia Training Makes Its Debut! It’s Back—CLMA ThinkLab ’09! Orchard President, Rob Bush, to Speak at Molecular Summit

2008 Issues

	Fall 2008 Orchard® Copia® Helps Carolina Medical Lab Set Itself Apart! Employee Spotlight: Mark Jones Feature Focus: Automatic Reporting with Data Browsers in Orchard Copia Cool New Order Choice Features for Harvest LIS 8.0 Tech Tip: Filters Make Harvest LIS Tables Easier to Manage Web-based Training Coming Soon! Where in the World is Orchy?

	Summer 2008 Central Indiana Cancer Center Got More than Just a Lab System Where in the World is Orchy? Employee Spotlight: Heather Ashburn Harvest LIS 8.0’s Fab Five Features Tech Tip: Proactive Interface Management Bringing the Orchard to You—2008 Orchard Symposiums Orchard will be Exhibiting at AACC—July 29-31, 2008

	Spring 2008 Metro Urology Expands with Orchard’s Products Employee Spotlight: Ginny Harrison Medicare Mandates New Format for ABNs Where in the World is Orchy? Tech Tip: Using the AutoScan Explorer Feature Focus: Harvest LIS 8.0 Enhances the Power of QC Orchard’s 2008 Spring Symposium Orchard’s Customer Training Grows in 2008 Orchard will be Exhibiting at AACC

	Winter 2008 ViraCor Reaps the Benefits of Orchard Copia’s Flexibility Where in the World is Orchy? Employee Spotlight: Adnan Rizvi Tech Tip: External Links Feature Focus: Release Stored Orders Don’t Forget to Attend CLMA ThinkLab ‘08 Sponsored by Orchard Software Come Visit Our Redesigned Website! Orchard’s Online User Groups Celebrate Their 7th Year Orchard Begins Plans for 2008 Symposiums Request for Modification Process Advanced User Training Classes Fill Up Quickly!

2007 Issues

	Fall 2007 Labs from Coast to Coast Harvest the Power of an Orchard LIS Where in the World is Orchy? Employee Spotlight: Chip Rivers Tech Tip: Scheduling Automatic Reports Feature Focus: Configuring Automatic Quality Control Commitment and Teamwork Get the Job Done! Orchard’s Fall Symposium a Success in Dallas, Texas

	Summer 2007 Valley Medical Center Improves Performance with Order Entry Rules Employee Spotlight: Gina Rhineberger Where in the World is Orchy? Tech Tip: Configuring Orchard Harvest™ Webstation Security Groups Submit Your Request for Upgrade to Harvest LIS Version 7.5! Announcing Orchard’s Fall Symposium in Dallas, Texas! Feature Focus: Order Choice Catalog & Reference Range Reports Mark your Calendars for CLMA ThinkLab ’08

	Spring 2007 Orchard© Copia© Springboards Rice Memorial Hospital's Outreach Employee Spotlight: Matt Landolf Where in the World is Orchy? Spring Forward to Our Newest Release—Upgrade to Harvest LIS 7.5! Tech Tip: Customize Your Copia Order Patient Samples Page Orchard Grows with Specialized Copia Development and Support Orchard Enhances Web-based Connectivity with Copia 4.0 Feature Focus: Automated Document Linking Interface in Harvest LIS Orchard's Spring Symposium—Bringing the Orchard to You!

	Winter 2007 Integration Improves The Austin Diagnostic Clinic's Efficiency Where in the World is Orchy? Employee Spotlight: Maureen Sullivan Stay Knowledgeable with Recently Updated Tech Tips Feature Focus: Age/Race-specific Reference Ranges CLMA ThinkLab '07 Sponsored by Orchard Software Case Study: Compare Related Test Results Using Rules & Formulas Our Account Manager Team—Growing to Better Serve You! Orchard Begins Plans for 2007 Symposiums

2006 Issues

	Fall 2006 Orchard's Flexibility Keeps Colorado Springs Health Partners Nimble Where in the World is Orchy? Employee Spotlight: Ed Hougendobler Anatomic Pathology Module is Now Available! Coming Soon: Windows Vista Feature Focus: Customizing the Turnaround Time Report Case Study: Triglycerides are over 400—How Harvest LIS Can Help Orchard's First Symposium—Bringing the Orchard to You! Keep up on the Latest Modifications with Online Tech Tips!

	Summer 2006 Orchard Harvest LIS Helps Wray Community Hospital "Look Good" Where in the World is Orchy? Employee Spotlight: Jeff Kain Tech Tip: Enterability Defines Manual Result Entry Abilities Advanced User Training Classes Fill Up Fast Addition of Order Entry Rules Prevents Mistakes, Enhances Harvest LIS (Insert) Upgrade to Harvest LIS 7.0

	Spring 2006 Greene Memorial Participates as a Beta Tester for Orchard Harvest™ LIS 7.0 and the New Anatomic Pathology Module Employee Spotlight: Keith McKinney Tech Tip: Using One-point Reference Ranges in Harvest LIS Tech Tip: Exporting Data in Harvest LIS to Microsoft Excel Using PDF Reports in Harvest Webstation and Email Module (Insert) Where in the World is Orchy?

	Winter 2006 Kennedy Space Center Takes Flight with Orchard Harvest LIS Where in the World is Orchy? Tech Tip: Using Spelling Check in Harvest LIS Employee Spotlight: Pete Ritz Enhance Medical Necessity Checking with CodeMap® Expansion of Sales & Marketing Provides More to Service You! Using Auto-comments to Save Time and Increase Efficiency (Insert)

2005 Issues

	Fall 2005 Harvest LIS Enhances Productivity for the UMC Student Health Center Orchard Earns Customer Value Enhancement Award Employee Spotlight: Henry Oglesby 2006 Orchard Harvest LIS Training Classes Now Available Where in the World is Orchy? Technical Support for Upcoming Holidays Harvest LIS Boasts New Features in the Microbiology Module (Insert) Tech Tip: Restore or Create the mandatory Log File in Harvest LIS (Insert)

	Summer 2005 Orchard Harvest LIS Grows with Indiana Internal Medicine Expanding to Meet Customers' Needs Employee Spotlight: Steve Brady Important Information for Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000 Users Where in the World is Orchy? KLAS' 2005 Top 20 Mid-Year Report Card: Orchard Ranks at the Top! Harvest LIS Message Center Helps You Keep in Touch (Insert) Go Paperless with Email for Result Delivery (Insert) Enhanced Feature: Billing Summary Report (Insert)

	Spring 2005 Orchard Harvest CT—Empowering DCL's Outreach Tech Tip: Anti-Virus Software & Your Harvest LIS Database Orchard Software: Best in KLAS! Where in the World is Orchy? Employee Spotlight: Kerry Foster Ogden Clinic Named Clinic of the Year Crystal Run has Zero Defects! We're Growing at Orchard Harvest LIS 6.5 Data Browsers and Other Enhanced Features (Insert) Using Column Views (Insert)

	Winter 2005 DeKalb Memorial Harvests the Power of Outreach What's New for Spring? Orchard Harvest LIS version 6.5! Employee Spotlight: Rich Brayfield Tech Tip: Result Origins Where in the World is Orchy? Looking Back, Charging Forward

2004 Issues

	Fall 2004 Ref Lab and Billing Interfaces Help MIMA Maximize Productivity Medical Necessity Options Expanded Aqueduct and the ISLH Rules Employee Spotlight: Audrey Blackwell Where in the World is Orchy? Enhanced Demographic Formulas Tech Tip: Scheduling Report Printing in Orchard Harvest LIS Harvest LIS + Copia = Outreach Power with Harvest CT

	Summer 2004 Victor Valley Hospital enjoys Orchard Harvest LIS 6.0! Employee Spotlight: Chris Jones Advanced User Training—Seats Going Fast! Harvest LIS 6.0: A very comprehensive update! Top of KLAS QC is EZ with Harvest LIS 6.0 (Insert) Upgrading Your Harvest LIS (Insert)

	Spring 2004 Pioneer Memorial's Favorite Orchard Harvest LIS Features Tech Tip: Approved Windows Operating Systems Employee Spotlight: Kelly Turyan Orchard's Orchard Comes to CLMA 2004! HIPAA Updates Coming to the 2004 AACC conference? Visit the orchard. Orchard Software: Growing Interfaces since 1993 (Insert) Feature Focus: Importing & Configuring Diagnosis Codes in Harvest LIS (Insert)

	Winter 2004 - Insert Aqueduct's Rules Speed up Workflow at Mayo New User Groups Ensuring the Security of your Harvest Webstation Server Tech Tip: Security Employee Spotlight: Gordon Saager Orchard Training P.A.C.E.® Approved! Feature Focus: Clinical Information Questions (Insert) Nine Tips When Calling Tech Support (Insert)

2003 Issues

	Fall 2003 Harvest LIS Expands as Medical Associates Grows For the Second Year in a Row...Orchard's LIS voted Top of the Class! New Feature Focus: Using Order Choice Statuses Employee Spotlight: Martin Klausmeier-Brown Safeguarding your Data Harvest the Power of Orchard User Groups Benefits of Upgrading to Harvest LIS version 5.5! (Insert) Diagnosis Code Update (Insert) Tech Tip: Harvest LIS 5.5 Log File Backup (Insert) Bring your Computer Screen into the Orchard (Insert)

	Summer 2003 West Texas Medical Associates Harvest the Power of Microbiology Tech Tip: Updating your Windows Operating System News from the Training Center Classic Feature Focus: Using Text Shortcut Key Combinations Whatever the interface, we grow it at Orchard. Employee Spotlight: Mallard Duck Conferences Tenth Anniversary Insert (Mailed version only)

	Spring 2003 Piedmont Healthcare Improves Accessibility with Harvest Webstation Outreach Made Easy: Orchard Harvest Webstation 5.0 Budgeting for Support & Training Tech Tip: Keyboard Manual Differential (Harvest LIS Version 4.0.6 or Later) Hotkeys Can Save Time Navigating Harvest LIS HIPAA Update: Final Security Rule Published Employee Spotlight: Curt Johnson Let us Know if you are Attending CLMA 2003! Orchard Software's Tenth Anniversary

	Winter 2003 A Happy HIPAA New Year Orchard's LIS Voted Top of the Class National Coverage Determinations (NCDs) Tech Tip: Auto Delivery of Patient Reports 2003 AMA CDs Gearing up for 5.0.2 Employee Spotlight: Nicole Carter Produce More with Less Tech Support Reminder New Feature Focus: Reference Lab Interfaces

2002 Issues

	Fall 2002 Orchard Harvest LIS Version 5.0 Shipping Now Orchard Software User Group Archives Tech Tip: Configuring Harvest Server as an NT/2000 Service Watch for our New Print Ads Tech Tip: Attention Windows 95 Users Hardware Replacement Cycle Employee Spotlight on Dave Compton System Administrator & Advanced User Training Gets Rave Reviews

	Summer 2002 Customer Focus: Midwest Hemostasis & Thrombosis Laboratories Sign up for Harvest LIS Advanced User Training Another Successful CLMA/ASCP Show for Orchard Software Corporation Prolonging the Life of Your Tape Drives Employee Spotlight on Kevin Dudley Winner of CLMA/ASCP Conference Pass Is Your System Ready for Harvest LIS 5.0? Website Update

	Spring 2002 Orchard Software Continues to Grow! We'll See You at CLMA Speed up Your Technical Support Calls Tech Tips: Archiving: Why, When, and How Does it Work? Employee Spotlight on Dave Bracewell HIPAA Update Upcoming Conferences Free Download or Conversion of the AMA 2002 ICD-9 Codes

	Winter 2002 Orchard Offers Centralized Training for Microbiology Module HIPAA Compliance Date Change Keeping Your Support Contract Current Employee Spotlight on Debbie Schilling Tech Tips: Quickly Selecting Data in Multiple Columns Helping You Get the Most From Your LIS Request for Modification: Sending Supervising Physician Through HL7 Tech Tips: Shortcuts for Becoming a Review Results Power User Visit Orchard's Website for Additional Services

2001 Issues

	Fall 2001 Customer Focus: DeKalb Clinic Orchard Launches Customer-Only Area of Website Employee Spotlight on Bruce Heitman Join the Harvest LIS On-line Discussion Groups Feature Focus: Orchard Harvest LIS Microbiology Module Tech Tips: Performing Software Verification Requests for Modification: Epidemiology Reporting

	Summer 2001 Shipping Soon: Version 4.0 of Orchard Harvest LIS Employee Spotlight on Wendy Forgey What is a Log File and Why is it Important? Tech Tips: Correctly Exiting Harvest LIS Have You Visited eTotallab.com? Feature Focus: Orchard Harvest Webstation Feedback Forum: Requests for Modification

	Spring 2001 New Version of Orchard Harvest LIS to be Released HIPAA News and Views Orchard's Enterprise-Level Solution - Helps Control the Flow from Order Entry to Result Delivery Free Updates of Diagnosis Codes Tech Tips: Backup Scheduler Employee Spotlight on John Miller

	Winter 2001 Customer Focus: Women's Health Partnership Laboratory Upcoming Conferences and Exhibitions Employee Spotlight on Greg Wilson HIPAA Update View Current or Previous Editions of news@orchard Online Orchard Software Opens Its New Call Center Tech Tips: Check Server Free Space Feedback Forum: Requests for Modification

2000 Issues

	Fall 2000 Worried About Compliance with HIPAA Regulations? Excellent Response to Harvest LIS Release Special Holiday Technical Support Hours Help Us Harvest Your Needs! Employee Spotlight on John Fischer Helpful HIPAA-Related Web Sites Replacing an Analyzer? Let Orchard Help Tech Tips: Using Formulas Fixing a Recursive Formula Backups Feedback Forum: Requests for Modifications

	Summer 2000 Orchard Software Announces Harvest LIS Version 3.0 Look for Orchard at Industry Trade Shows We're on the World Wide Web! The OSC Technical Support Staff Introducing the Orchard Software Sales Staff Tech Tips: Preparing for a Support Call Welcome to News@Orchard