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Molecular Diagnostics (MDx) is among the most highly complex disciplines in modern science, a fact which has made its development both long and arduous. The theoretical gestation of genetics spanned well over 2,000 years, from classical Greek thinkers like Hippocrates and Aristotle, all the way to the advent of cellular…

Microbiology testing is important in diagnosing and treating diseases in patients based upon the presence of one or more microorganisms. Molecular testing is important in predicting, diagnosing, and treating diseases or disabilities related to changes in cells at the molecular level. What happens when the two cross? How can laboratorians…

Customer demand, cancer protocols, and consolidation of pathology practices are some of what CAP TODAY asked about when it spoke in January with four anatomic pathology computer system companies. Their AP systems and those of 17 other companies are profiled in the anatomic pathology computer systems interactive product guide. “It’s…

Psyche Systems presents e.Monitor, a comprehensive solution for laboratories to monitor and manage all of the data integration services that send and receive data to Psyche’s laboratory information systems. It provides support for monitoring backend processes, EMR connections, and HL7 interfaces. With fast real-time monitoring of all processes and connections…

This month’s issue features laboratory information systems (LIS), laboratory information management systems (LIMS), and middleware products from vendors such as Clinical Software Solutions, Orchard Software, Psyche Systems, Technidata, and Xifin. The files are each available as downloadable PDFs from the following links:   Read More

The laboratory’s role in patient care has been evolving and morphing for decades, but never more so than in the last three to five years. With changes in regulation, reimbursement, test focus, and patient access to information, and especially with the rise in general of patient-centric care, the lab has…

As personalized and predictive medicine have progressed from not-in-my-lifetime to now available, health care information technology vendors have faced the challenge of how to manage a mass of molecular data and direct molecular testing processes. CAP TODAY asked vendors of molecular diagnostics lab information systems to explain what their products…

Today’s tools are transforming the impact of molecular data on patient and population health. Molecular and genetic diagnostics have come a long way in a very short time. We can now sequence an individual’s genome in a fraction of the time and cost required only a decade ago. This opens…

Psyche Systems Corporation is a private, profit-driven software company that has focused exclusively on delivering laboratory information software to hospitals, clinics, reference labs, and private labs since 1976. It is this unwavering focus on serving the core customer base that has enabled Psyche to maintain strong customer loyalty and deliver…

Laboratories of all sizes — private, reference, and hospitals — balance two main objectives: high quality testing and results along with achieving business goals and objectives.” That statement is how I opened an article I authored several years ago in this space (“Outreach strategies for operational success.” MLO. 2013;45(1):30-31.) Is it…