CyberLAB 7.2 is a powerful Laboratory Information System (LIS) that is used to manage information in today's demanding health care environment.
It is an innovative, browser-based LIS that provides unparalleled flexibility and functionality for laboratory operations.
The CyberLAB 7.2 system is a complete end-to-end, feature-rich solution for clinical laboratories. These laboratories are located in hospitals and clinics as well as reference laboratories, veterinary laboratories, and teaching institutions.
Some advantages that the CyberLAB 7.2 LIS provides are:
Tracks a patient's sample from the initial order and collection to arrival in the lab, processing of specified tests, review of test results, and posting to the patient's record to generate a clinical report.
Forty tests that equate to a maximum of 500 processed tests, can be ordered in a single order, in a panel of predefined tests, or in a combination of panels and individual tests.
Provides tools that enable you to adhere to the regulatory requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other federal and state legislative measures.
Offers quick and accurate inquiry of the patient's test results.
Enables a laboratory to: 1) define customized autorelease (autoverification) rules for a test group within any Instrument Result Edit Format, 2) evaluate the result based on the set of rules established for certain data conditions, and 3) invoke specific actions when the rule conditions are met.
Enables a facility to create quick launch icons from a predefined image gallery to provide fast access to menu options in the CyberLAB system. A maximum of 20 quick launch icons can be placed at the top of application screens.
Provides a priority collection monitor on the main menu screen of orders that are waiting to be collected and need immediate attention. Display of the monitor is based on user classification.
Generates a variety of reports that include patient test results, work schedules for laboratory staff, and evaluations of laboratory productivity and efficiency.
Allows the facility to customize and control on a screen the definition of text box labels and the data characteristics for a required response.
Access to the application's modules and data is granted, based upon a user's role and tasks. Access levels are determined by the facility and implemented by the system administrator.
The key modules of CyberLAB are:
Patient Entry/Inquiry
Work Scheduling
Results Entry
Microbiology
Clinical Reports
Quality Control
Laboratory Management
File Maintenance
All patient information, order entry, and sample collection functions can be accessed in the Patient Entry and Inquiry module.
The patient demography and sample orders can be transmitted from the host system , known as the Hospital Information System/Clinic Information System (HIS/CIS), to the CyberLAB system.
The output of this module is used to schedule and perform laboratory work.
Worksheets for daily tasks can be printed, and reports created about pending work, work in progress, system snapshots, batch specimens for transit, and log in specimens as received in the lab.
Results Entry is the most active and detailed module. In this module, results for ordered tests are entered, received, and posted in the patient's record. The results can also be modified or deleted, based upon user classification.
The results can be transmitted to the CyberLAB system from interfaced instruments or entered manually. The entries include single result, panel/matrix results, differential result, urinalysis results, and instrument (interfaced) results.
Two result entry reports can be generated: Held Results and Results Review.
The Microbiology module allows you to handle, process, result, track, and report microbiology culture tests.
Other result features include online work cards and the review and release of microbiology results sent from interfaced instruments and auto no-growth result entry.
Microbiology decision support provides users the flexibility to define system treatment and to handle culture specimens and results. Four microbiology reports can also be generated: Infection Control, Susceptibility, and Organism Percent Inhibited by MIC.
When work is completed in a laboratory, clinical reports are generated. This module is used to generate three principal patient clinical reports. These reports are: Interim Report, Cumulative Report, and Compressed Patient Report.
The Interim Report contains the results of all of the tests that were ordered for one sample. The Cumulative Report gathers test results of multiple Sample IDs into one report, based on selected filter criteria. The Compressed Patient Report prints a master log of all completed Sample IDs in a compressed format.
The focus of quality control is to make certain that laboratory instruments operate at predefined criteria for the tests performed and produce accurate results. The instruments are tested and calibrated to meet the criteria specified in the QC Test Dictionary and instrument reagent manufacturer.
Five statistical reports can be generated to provide automatic statistical calculation of mean standard deviation and coefficient of variation values for all tests for which results from tested knowns have been entered, as well as the mean, standard deviation and coefficient of variation entered in the QC Dictionary for each test.
The administrative tasks of a laboratory reside in the Laboratory Management module. These tasks include system utilities such as Autotransmit, Host Interface, Lab System File Management, and Patient Admit and Discharge.
The module also contains billing management reports, system logs and reports, and result entry workflow reports.
The hub of the CyberLAB system is the Test Dictionary, which is located in this module. The dictionary is defined by the facility before installation of the application.
The Test Dictionary file contains all the parameters for every test and service performed by the laboratory or sent to be performed by reference laboratories.
Other important files in the module include Client Master that contains doctors and other caregivers who order lab work, a Comment Master that lists predefined comment codes, and a list of interfaced instruments to which test batches can be downloaded and the results uploaded.
The module also contains parameters for Microbiology, Differential, Collection, Urinalysis, General Systems, Matrix Worklists, and Reports. There are also Interim Report Rules and Result Response Rules, and Medical Necessity Rules.