Orchard Symposium—Spring 2008: Presentation Summaries for Breakout Sessions
Session 1: Introduction to Harvest LIS
Designed for those who are new to Orchard Harvest LIS, this session will provide an overview of Harvest LIS and the various features and benefits that has made Harvest LIS an industry leader.
Session 2: IT Issues—Integration/Networks/Setup/Hardware/Maintenance
This session will provide you with tips and insight regarding your Harvest LIS and the technology, network, and maintenance used to support it. We will also show you ways you can be sure to maximize the performance of your Harvest LIS.
Session 3: What's New in Harvest LIS 8.0
This session will briefly show several new and enhanced features in the latest version of Harvest LIS, such as, Links, Rules for Order Entry, Conditional Formulas, Automatic Ordering of QC, and Date/Time Exclusions from the Turnaround Time Report.
Session 4: Microbiology Module
This session will demonstrate Orchard Harvest LIS Microbiology module, and show you how your microbiology department can have all the advantages of the rules-based power access to clinical data, and reduce paper records and storage.
Session 5: Data Mining in Orchard Harvest LIS
This session will present a brief overview of the four browsers and the browser enhancements available in version 7.5, with the focus on building column views, building complex filters, mining the data, exporting data to and massaging data using Excel.
Session 6: What's New in Harvest LIS 8.0
See Session 3, above, for presentation details.
Session 7: Anatomic Pathology Module
This session will expose you to Harvest’s newest add-on module, Harvest LIS Anatomic Pathology (AP) module, which is fully integrated with Orchard’s Harvest LIS. Through a brief product demonstration, you will see the benefits of electronic record-keeping, rules-based decision-making, and easy access to clinical data between departments.
Session 8: Setting up Rules in Harvest LIS
This session will present rule basics, including a summary of the seven different kinds of rules that can be configured in Harvest LIS, with special focus on rules for result evaluation, rules for CPT codes and rules for result delivery.
Session 9: Improving Lab Outreach & Data Access
Enhance your lab’s value with this versatile, streamlined user interface for order entry and results delivery. Through a product demonstration and case studies of various lab environments, you will learn how to successfully increase electronic outreach.

