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Orchard Employees Rise Up in a Challenging Year

In a year filled with incredibly difficult circumstances, employees have continued to pull together (sometimes literally) to maintain our virtual Orchard family.

Employee Spotlight On: Beth Eder, Associate Director of Product Management

An Orchard Software employee spotlight on Beth Eder, Associate Director of Product Management.

Coming Soon: Supplemental End User Training!

We are excited to announce that we are launching a new subscription-based online eLearning library for our system end users.

Orchard Software Offers COVID-19 University Testing Software to Help Bring Students & Faculty Back to Campus Safely

Orchard Training Going Virtual for 2020

Our training team wants you to know that, despite today's challenges, we are still here to provide quality training on your Orchard products.

Orchard Is “In the Cloud”

Orchard can host your LIS in a secure, reliable, and up-to-date manner in fully redundant, HIPAA-compliant storage centers.

The Vital Need for Rapid COVID-19 Laboratory Testing

Testing for the respiratory illness COVID-19 and the associated SARS-CoV-2 virus has gotten off to a rocky start and continues to see struggles related to the complexity of testing, availability of resources, and a need for clear communication.

The Team behind the POC Webinar Series: Catching Up with Whitehat Communications

Always looking for valuable resources to share with laboratorians, Orchard Software has been a proud sponsor of the point-of-care (POC) webinar series hosted by Whitehat Communications.

Employee Spotlight On: Billie Whitehurst, CEO

In October 2019, Orchard Software’s new CEO, Billie Whitehurst, joined the Orchard team and hit the ground running. Read Orchard's most recent employee spotlight to learn more about the newly appointed CEO.

Orchard Knits for Special Olympics Indiana

As part of Orchard Software’s first in-house service day in November 2019, Orchard employees volunteered to knit scarves for Special Olympics Indiana.

Understanding POCT Connectivity Standards

The diversity of point-of-care testing (POCT) locations, devices, and operators makes its management and connectivity challenging. However, the greatest benefit of a POCT result is its rapid turnaround time (TAT). That TAT is not realized if the result is

Top 4 Point-of-Care Testing (POCT) Challenges: Connectivity, Locations, Devices, & Operators

In the right patient scenarios, the rapid turnaround time (TAT) that point-of-care testing (POCT) offers can increase provider efficiency and help improve patient outcomes. However, the diversity of locations, operators, devices, and device connectivity c