Orchard’s LIS Solutions for COVID-19 in a University Setting

As universities across the U.S. are ramping up health services to handle COVID-19 testing for incoming students, streamlined processes, efficient workflows, and dependable connectivity are necessary to ensure that students and staff can return to campuses as safely as possible. Orchard Software has extensive experience working with universities and student health centers, offering software tools that can organize and streamline COVID-19 sample collection and/or testing throughout all phases of laboratory analysis. Orchard offers flexible solutions and options that are beneficial to any student health center that is involved in COVID-19 test collection and for universities with internal laboratories that are performing coronavirus testing. In addition, Orchard understands the importance of patient confidentiality and connectivity for rapid test delivery during this public health crisis. 
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Overview of Benefits for COVID-19 Testing
Orchard’s solutions offer a myriad of benefits for campus testing:

• Promote efficient sample and supply routing to facilitate desired turnaround times
• Improve speed and accuracy of specimen and test results delivery to enable quarantine when warranted 
• Enhance effective workflow and coronavirus sample tracking
• Facilitate communication between laboratories, care providers, and health departments
• Enhance outreach support capabilities and customer service for campus testing
• Improve public health and patient safety and satisfaction
• Track COVID-19 testing supply distribution and inventory  

Integration Expertise
Information system integration is paramount to efficient laboratory workflow and rapid turnaround time for COVID-19 testing. Orchard is an expert in system integration and has completed hundreds of EMR/EHR interfaces, including numerous public health ELR State Department of Health interfaces, and more than 5,000 instrument interfaces. Whether you are collecting samples to send to a remote COVID testing laboratory, or are performing in-house molecular PCR or point-of-care testing, Orchard’s systems can streamline the ordering process and interface devices and analyzers to automate result delivery to meet your university’s specific needs. 

Data Analysis & Tracing
Orchard’s powerful data mining tools allow users to run ad-hoc reports and automate custom administrative reports that align with your requirements and schedules. Reports can be created that identify positive COVID-19 patients who can be contacted to allow for quarantine and further tracking of close contacts and exposures. 

Orchard’s Cloud Services
As part of the offerings for universities and student health centers, Orchard offers hosting services. All of Orchard’s solutions can be deployed in an Orchard-hosted environment. Orchard’s cloud services provide a cost-efficient solution to ensure information systems are accessible yet secure, allowing organizations to focus on their core mission of providing the highest quality of care possible to the populations they serve. 
Orchard understands the specific needs of healthcare organizations for COVID-19 testing and offers cloud services that:

• Lower risk of healthcare security breaches
• Increase availability of systems and data
• Enhance performance through up-to-date technology, best practices, skilled resources, and regular updates 

​Orchard Supports COVID-19 Testing
Orchard has a long-term history of collaboration with universities and student health centers and an understanding of how to rapidly implement information system support for COVID-19 collection and/or campus testing in a rapid, accurate, and safe manner. Contact your Orchard account executive to find out how Orchard can help your university address COVID-19 and ensure that your students and faculty can return to a safe campus environment.   
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Call to learn how Orchard can help bring information system tools for COVID-19 collection and testing to your campus quickly, efficiently, and safely!