Orchard Software is proud to offer a comprehensive, enterprise laboratory information system (LIS) solution that provides the scalability that laboratories require to manage large volumes of laboratory testing across multiple laboratories and departments. Orchard Enterprise enables labs to streamline processes, promote provider and staff confidence, and be in a position to succeed and grow.
Orchard Enterprise was designed by laboratory scientists who truly understand what the lab needs. The system helps address the industry staffing shortage by improving laboratory workflow across every aspect of lab testing, including lab integration, productivity, efficiency, and inspection-preparedness. The top benefits of implementing Orchard Enterprise include:
- Maximum efficiency
- Greater interoperability
- Advanced analytics
- Higher scalability
- Superior support
Achieve Maximum Lab Efficiency
Orchard Enterprise includes intuitive tools that streamline lab processes and workflows, including our Enterprise Rules Engine and Enterprise Workflow Process Engine.
The Enterprise Rules Engine enables labs to intuitively create rules, including order entry, routing, result evaluation, result approval, and billing rules that facilitate decision-making throughout the testing process and ensure the consistent execution of procedures. Orchard Enterprise allows you to create your own rules using an intuitive interface that allows you to define very specific conditions under which an action should happen. The combination of available conditions and actions to create automated actions are endless. The Rules Engine puts configuration in your lab’s hands. You can configure rules, custom screens, report formats, and more.
The Enterprise Workflow Process Engine allows you to configure workflows for each lab area using visual process maps that increase lab efficiency, effectiveness, and repeatability of the testing processes. The Workflow Process Engine allows you to define the conditions under which many automated processes can trigger in an easily understandable graphical user interface. This tool provides labs with maximum flexibility and configurability to support unique workflows across various laboratory scenarios and allows a single platform solution to efficiently support multiple diverse testing disciplines. The intuitive graphical user interface allows you to easily create complex process maps without vendor support.
To meet the report requests of different providers, you can create report templates and assign to a provider. Using Orchard Enterprise’s advanced configuration tools, you can create different order entry screens and result report formats for individual locations or providers.
Each laboratory testing discipline has different requirements for review of laboratory test results. Orchard Enterprise intelligently displays the appropriate screen for the type of testing being reviewed.
Gain Laboratory Interoperability
Interoperability in healthcare is the ability of different healthcare systems, devices, and software to exchange and use patient information and data seamlessly. This includes sharing medical records, test results, treatment plans, and other relevant health information. Orchard Enterprise allows your lab to be a part of an interoperable healthcare system by providing connectivity to virtually any third-party healthcare information system. This gives providers timely access to diagnostic information and offers patients a seamless healthcare experience.
The Orchard® Device Engine™ is the primary tool that Orchard uses to connect to disparate information systems. The Orchard Device Engine provides a central point of communication for instruments and ancillary devices, enabling seamless connections to disparate information systems without the need for costly middleware.
Orchard provides connectivity to hundreds of instruments to support the entire spectrum of laboratory testing. Orchard Software’s inherent device engine supports numerous types of laboratory equipment such as analyzers, labelers, printers, scanners, and more. Orchard Enterprise offers inherent HL7 interface tools within the application as well as options for interfaces via external application programming interfaces (API) to connect all disparate systems.
Having the resources to implement and support numerous system interfaces is integral to a successful laboratory outreach program. Orchard Software equips you to make the most out of your investment by being the only vendor that offers training so you can build your own HL7 system interfaces. By taking our integration training courses, you learn how to create your own HL7 interfaces without the additional cost and time commitment to involve your LIS vendor.
Acquire Valuable Analytics Insights
Orchard Enterprise offers advanced data mining tools as well as the Orchard® Insights® business analytics tool to allow quick access to meaningful reports that satisfy inspection criteria and boost your lab’s performance.
Inherent within the system are powerful data mining tools called data browsers that allow your lab to be inspection-ready at a moment’s notice. Easily configurable data browsers allow you to create specific and meaningful administrative reports. Once report criteria is established, you can set up reports to run on a pre-determined schedule. This feature allows you to “set and forget” your administrative reporting responsibilities, freeing you up for other tasks.
On a deeper analytics scale, Orchard Insights provides “at-a-glance” operational insights into lab operations to track performance and identify areas to improve. You can track staffing and personnel workloads to help address the industry’s staffing shortage. The solution also provides insights that help improve patient safety and quality of care.
Achieve Maximum Scalability
Orchard Enterprise is delivered on a single platform architecture with a modular design, allowing labs to choose the functionality specific to their facility while preserving the option to easily grow in the future. The solution provides a comprehensive breadth of offerings to accommodate large volumes of laboratory testing across multiple laboratories and departments performing clinical, microbiology, molecular, toxicology, pathology testing, and point-of-care testing. The breadth of the system allows laboratories to grow and adapt to the evolving healthcare informatics environment.
Orchard Enterprise is built using modern technology platforms and architecture that leverage the latest advancements in security and data integrity to promote easy scalability. Our cloud-hosted option offers improved system reliability, greater security, and easier, faster implementation.
Orchard Enterprise offers a variety of configurations to fit the unique needs of our clients. At any time, you can add more users, interfaces, providers, locations, instruments, and more. Expand into additional testing disciplines easily with the addition of other modules without a complete system overhaul. The breadth of Orchard Enterprise provides support for every corner of the lab.
Experience Superior Support
As a company, Orchard does not “drop off the box” and leave our customers to figure out the system on their own. We partner with our customers, continuing to support them every step of the way. Your problems are our problems, and our culture is one of working together with our customers to solve problems. As such, Orchard supports its clients along every step of their LIS journey with superior, guided implementation, training, and support.
Implementation: Orchard offers a unique best practices–based approach to product implementation and supports its customers through the “change” process of implementing a new LIS. For project planning, Orchard Software employs an experienced project management team trained under the principles of the Project Management Institute. Our project management professionals are skilled at managing the people, processes, and business priorities of your LIS implementation. During system implementation, we use a prescriptive, best-practices approach. Our expert Field Implementation Analysts work alongside your team to configure the application to meet the requirements of your laboratory.
Training: Orchard offers many options for training because we know that the better trained you are on your lab system, the more you can take advantage of the features that will help your lab be more productive. Orchard offers multiple training options to support you every step of the way (i.e., on-site, “train the trainer,” instructor-led, and eLearning, plus myriad resources on Orchard Resource Central (ORC).
Technical Service: Orchard offers multiple options for service and support. There are three levels of technical support packages that allow you to choose the level that is right for your organization. In addition, system administration packages are available to provide an increased level of support for labs who need it, and special project packages are available with expert professional services for those extra projects you may not have time to do.
Orchard Enterprise Summary
Orchard Enterprise makes laboratory professionals’ jobs easier and increases the lab’s contribution to patient care improvements. We offer an intuitive, scalable LIS that can expertly accommodate large volumes of laboratory services across multiple laboratories and departments, helping you gain efficiency and improve staff job satisfaction.