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Laboratory systems
Alberta Cancer Board chooses Sunrise
Laboratory
EDMONTON – The Alberta Cancer Board
has selected Sunrise Laboratory, from Eclipsys, to replace their
existing clinical LIS, help increase productivity, improve workflow and
enhance data management. The solution, along with aspects of PowerBANK
Enterprise EditionT, Eclipsys’ solution for automating the functions of
a hospital’s blood bank, will be implemented at the Cross Cancer
Institute in Edmonton, Alberta.
Sunrise Laboratory will help automate the Cross Cancer Institute’s
entire clinical laboratory operation, with features such as enhanced
quality control and quality assurance processes, and an integrated
dashboard for laboratory operations monitoring. The solution also
includes a specimen-tracking system that focuses on the receipt of the
specimen and location of the specimen for easy retrieval, which will
help the institute improve efficiency and reduce turnaround time.
“Eclipsys Sunrise Laboratory provides great features, along with an
easy-to-use interface, which enables us to deploy a system that can
manage our laboratory operations and achieve high-rates of solution
adoption,” said Peter Braun, Manager, Laboratory Information Systems,
Cross Cancer Institute, Alberta Cancer Board. “Additionally, the
solution provides superior capabilities for quality assurance and
quality control, which is critical to helping us run the safest lab
possible.”
And in a different part of the country, Sunrise Laboratory is helping a
hospital lab improve its efficiencies. When faced with a 15.3 percent
increase in total lab orders, West Parry Sound Health Centre, in
Ontario, was able to leverage the automation capabilities of Sunrise
Laboratory to achieve the following productivity improvements:
• 16 percent increase in Orders Processed by Hour Worked
• 32 percent increase in Workload Units Processed per Hour Worked
• 44 percent decrease in STAT turnaround times
• 88 percent decrease in overtime hours.
With Sunrise Laboratory, WPSHC was able to improve several key patient
safety metrics, such as zero unnecessary duplicate draws and zero wrong
patient or incorrect lab values for five of the first six
post-implementation months. Additionally, clinician satisfaction with
the Eclipsys laboratory information system rose 76.5 percent over the
prior solution.
“Our clients’ ability to document outcome improvements through the use
of our solutions is the foundation for Eclipsys’ success and it’s great
to see the positive results West Parry Sound Health Centre was able to
achieve using Sunrise Laboratory,” said Jay Deady, Eclipsys executive
vice president, Client Solutions. “We look forward to working with the
team at Alberta Cancer Board and helping them achieve similar outcome
improvements in efficiency, safety and satisfaction. These types of
documented outcome improvements strengthen Eclipsys’ competitive
position in the growing lab system replacement market.”
About Alberta Cancer Board
The Alberta Cancer Board is the provincial cancer authority responsible
for coordinating and providing cancer prevention, research and
treatment. Facilities operated by the Alberta Cancer Board include the
Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton, the Tom Baker Cancer Centre in
Calgary and 15 associate and community care centres throughout the
province.
About West Parry Sound Health Centre
West Parry Sound Health Centre is a 180-bed, 150-employee healthcare
facility in Parry Sound, Ontario, 220 kilometers north of Toronto. The
hospital serves 20,000 permanent residents and over 150,000 seasonal
visitors. It includes 24-hour emergency services, plus surgery,
laboratory, and radiology services and a long-term care facility
About Sunrise Laboratory
Sunrise LaboratoryT is a state-of-the-art laboratory information system
(LIS) that helps increase laboratory productivity and decrease costs
through intuitive workflow and data management. It provides Web-based
access to complete lab orders, results, reports, laboratory supplies and
a catalog of services. Available as an LIS for either a hospital or a
stand-alone laboratory, this flexible solution enables healthcare
organizations to provide a full range of laboratory services internally
or to an outreach population. Sunrise Laboratory paves the way for
improved patient safety and operational efficiency across the
organization, reducing delays in care delivery and the potential for
medical errors. Sunrise Laboratory offers solutions which span all areas
of the laboratory to include anatomic pathology, microbiology and blood
bank. Sunrise Laboratory enhances productivity by the incorporation of
inventory supply management, workload measurement, courier and
phlebotomy management. For more information, see
www.eclipsys.com.
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