Orchard® Pathology
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Orchard® Pathology is a comprehensive pathology information system designed to meet the current and future trends in pathology and handle the complexities of clinical, molecular, and pathology testing and reporting. Orchard Pathology can be used as a stand-alone system for anatomic pathology testing or as a complete system that includes clinical and molecular testing. The shared database used by these various diagnostic disciplines provides access to the patient’s entire history and enables the consolidation of clinical results to the cytology or pathology report.
Image management tools make it easy to link digital images, annotated diagrams, and scanned documents to case worksheets and incorporate them onto patient reports. Information on each report is stored in discrete data fields that enhance EMR integration and simplify the process to mine data for evaluations, correlation studies, quality assurance, regulatory, statistical, and many other management reports.
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“All for one—unifying CP and AP data”
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“Unified AP/LIS—
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- Overview and the Trends in Pathology
- Stand-alone AP System or an All-inclusive CP/AP System
- Worksheet window simplifies case management
- Structured Data Fields for Data Mining and EMR Connectivity
- Real-time Processing Through Equipment Integration
- Result Evaluation Rules for Reflex Testing
- Easy Image Management
- Consolidated Results on a Single Patient Report
- Full Menu of Management Reports
- Web-based Access and EMR Connectivity Tools
- Veterinary Support
Overview and the Trends in Pathology
The following trends in pathology are affecting information systems, their use, and desired features. The overriding question is how quickly pathologists embrace the value of informatics and the codification of diagnosis for synoptic reporting and improved data mining. We already see the increased use of microscopes with the capability to create digital images, and digital diagnosis will take place in the near future. Along with this is the increased desire to annotate these images and include them within the patient report. As the penetration of electronic medical records (EMR) systems increases, delivering these reports to providers’ EMRs will become more important. Finally, the growth in molecular and genetic testing is bringing together the disciplines of clinical and anatomic pathology for more sophisticated diagnoses and reporting.
Orchard Pathology, developed in 2005 and released to the marketplace in 2006, was designed to accommodate the comprehensive pathology laboratory and the future trends in diagnostics. Orchard Pathology is a complete diagnostic information system, where clinical and anatomic data share the same database and where pathology data is stored in discrete data fields to simplify synoptic reporting and data mining.
Orchard Pathology is a complete information system that eliminates the manual system of audit trails and paper files and utilizes a single database to fully integrate all laboratory departments. Orchard Pathology improves efficiency; reduces errors; aids decision-making; eliminates paper files and storage; and with the onset of molecular testing, simplifies the complexities of integrated diagnostics. Orchard Pathology provides the comprehensive pathology laboratory with all the benefits of electronic record-keeping, rules-based decision-making, and the integration of results. Put all your results into one basket. Harvest the power of Orchard Pathology.
Stand-alone AP System or an All-inclusive CP/AP System
Orchard Pathology is utilized as a stand-alone AP system or as a single system that includes clinical and molecular. For laboratories with clinical, molecular, and pathology departments, the fully integrated pathology system uses a common database, and with a single mouse click, you may access a patient’s entire clinical history and add clinical results to the cytology or pathology report. This streamlined process saves time in producing your most valuable product: the finished report.
Worksheet Window Simplifies Case Management
Orchard Pathology is designed to simplify case management by employing a worksheet window that you may customize for use with your established templates or protocols. The worksheet is very flexible, allowing you to add typed transcriptions, use pre-formatted templates and forms, or insert text generated by voice recognition software. This allows you to generate synoptic reports. And with the system’s multi-level sign-off procedures, you can forward cases for electronic review and final approval.
Structured Data Fields for Data Mining and EMR Connectivity
Orchard Pathology uses a customizable worksheet with established templates, protocols, and diagnoses that structures data for standardization and synoptic reporting. Unlike other legacy systems that do not utilize pathology-specific word processing, Orchard Pathology stores report information as discrete data for evaluations, correlation studies, quality assurance, regulatory, statistical, and many other management reports. This allows pathologists to easily create ad-hoc reports without special computing skills.
| “I work for a Urology group and the group decided to expand our lab to include AP. We have installed and been live with our AP module since October 2007 and our physicians and pathologist are very pleased. Orchard was wonderful with helping get everything set up and the pathologist and staff trained. I think our reports (which are custom) look better than any other reference lab we have used in the past. Orchard has done a beautiful job helping us customize our reports. Orchard knows what they are doing and they have a great program for AP.” — Eyre Klindt, Metropolitan Urologic Specialists, P.A. |
Real-time Processing through Equipment Integration
Orchard’s ability to interface pathology instrumentation for positive sample identification reduces errors and allows the pathology laboratory to move away from the inefficiencies associated with batch processing. Bar coding of specimens, tissue cassettes, and slides, allows pathologists and technicians to move cases confidently through the analytical process with greater speed and accuracy. Utilizing the most up-to-date integration languages, Orchard Pathology integrates with the latest pathology equipment, ranging from slide labelers to microscopes to cassette readers, to ease your workflow and speed up turnaround time.
Result Evaluation Rules for Reflex Testing
The robust rules-based decision-support made famous in Orchard Harvest LIS is available throughout Orchard Pathology, and result evaluation rules for reflex testing customize workflow scenarios to meet an individual facility’s needs. As an example, send-out tests, correlations, quality assurance protocols, and confirmatory testing can be automatically reflex-ordered according to verbiage in the report text. The rule triggers the protocol, provides internal and/or reportable documentation, and automatically adds charges for billable procedures.
Easy Image Management
The image management tools in Orchard Pathology make it easy for you to link digital images and scanned documents to case worksheets and/or patient reports. Orchard Pathology supports a number of common image formats, and allows you to associate pertinent comments with each image. The system also manages consultation reports, eliminating the need for bulky paper files, and provides a single source for all related patient reports.
Consolidated Results on a Single Patient Report
Orchard Pathology simplifies the complexities of clinical, molecular, and pathology reporting by combining results from various departments into a single patient report. For laboratories performing integrated diagnostics, Orchard Pathology utilizes a common database, and with a single mouse click, you may access the patient’s entire clinical history and add clinical results to the molecular or pathology report. This streamlines reporting, saves time, and allows you to consolidate all the patient’s results into a single report.
Web-based Access and EMR Connectivity
Orchard Software’s multiple web-enabled outreach products provide unmatched abilities for pathologists to provide easy order entry and rapid result retrieval to their providers. For clients requiring EMR connectivity, our systems interface directly to their EMR, allowing them to electronically receive patient demographics and lab orders and then send results back. For clients without EMR interfaces, Orchard’s outreach systems provide remote access via the Internet to place orders; edit patients’ demographics; print labels, requisitions, and invoices; and view completed results. By providing electronic access and EMR connectivity, you eliminate paper requisitions, reduce errors, save time, improve efficiency, increase revenue, and stay competitive.
Veterinary Support
Orchard Software is famous for our award-winning laboratory information systems. While the majority of our customers are focused on the human patient, independent veterinary laboratories and university veterinary schools also utilize our laboratory information systems. To meet the requirements of veterinary laboratories, our software contains features for species, breeds within the species, species/breed-specific reference intervals, and taxonomy fields for the sex of an animal. In addition, you can easily capture and access owner information within the system. The overall flexibility of our software is why Orchard is used by laboratories of all types and sizes. And no matter their size, today’s laboratories need a system that is well-supported and a software vendor who is very responsive, and Orchard is recognized for being just that. For more information about Orchard's veterinary support, please visit our veterinary support page.
Orchard Pathology Reports
Full Menu of Management Reports
Unlike other systems, Orchard puts the power of creating ad-hoc reports in the lab, not the IT department. With the system’s powerful data-mining browsers, you may perform searches and build reports by specimen, diagnosis, test result, or case number. Inclusive graphs and charts are available to further illustrate findings. Then, you can print the completed reports as needed or schedule the reports to print automatically at a more convenient time.
Pathology Trade Shows
Orchard will be exhibiting at the following trade shows in 2012. If you would like to speak with us in person or see a demonstration of our software, we welcome you to visit us at one of the 2012 trade shows where we will be exhibiting. For your convenience, contact us ahead of the event to let us know you will be coming and set up a specific time to meet. For a complete list of our 2012 events, visit our Trade Show page.
| February 2012 | |||
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| 29-3/2 | The American Pathology Foundation Spring Conference |
San Diego, CA | |
| April 2012 | |||
| Date | Trade Show/Event | Location | Additional Information |
| 29-5/2 | CLMA ThinkLab '12 | Atlanta, GA | This conference is the leading educational event for clinical laboratory professionals, with more than 75 CEU-accredited educational sessions. You do not have to be a CLMA member to go to ThinkLab '12, and we encourage attending this valuable educational event. For additional information about CLMA or ThinkLab, please visit www.clma.org/?page=ThinkLab12. |
| July 2012 | |||
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| 15-19 | 2012 AACC Annual Meeting (American Association for Clinical Chemistry) |
Los Angeles, CA | |
| September 2012 | |||
| Date | Trade Show/Event | Location | Additional Information |
| 9-12 | CAP '12 The Pathologists’ Meeting™ |
San Diego, CA | |
| October 2012 | |||
| Date | Trade Show/Event | Location | Additional Information |
| 9-12 | Pathology Informatics 2012 |
Chicago, IL | |
| 10-12 | G-2 Lab Institute 2012 |
Arlington, VA | |
| 17-24 | 2012 AAVLD/USAHA Annual Meeting (American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians) |
Greensboro, NC | |
| 28-31 | 2012 Pathology Visions Conference (Digital Pathology Association) |
Baltimore, MD | www.digitalpathologyassociation.org/pathology-visions-conference |
| 31-11/3 | 2012 ASCP Annual Meeting (American Society for Clinical Pathology) |
Boston, MA | |
| November 2012 | |||
| Date | Trade Show/Event | Location | Additional Information |
| 2-6 | 60th Annual Scientific Meeting American Society of Cytopathology (ASC) |
Las Vegas, NV | |
| December 2012 | |||
| Date | Trade Show/Event | Location | Additional Information |
| 1-5 | 2012 Annual Meeting American College of Veterinary Pathologists |
Seattle, WA | |
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