UNC Rex Healthcare Case Study


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Success Combining HPV Result and PAP Interpretation

Data Innovations® partners with Rex Healthcare™ in Raleigh, North Carolina to develop an automated solution that combines the HPV result with PAP interpretation on a consolidated report and provides better diagnostics services for more positive patient outcomes.


The Profile

Type

Rex Healthcare is a non-for-profit private health care organization that joined UNC Health Care, a non-for-profit integrated health care system owned by the state of North Carolina

Size

655 Beds

LIS

  • Cerner Millennium™ for Clinical and Molecular Pathology
  • Cerner CoPath® for Anatomical Pathology Discipline

Volume

2,000 PAPs and 1,100 HPVs per month

Discipline

All clinical pathology disciplines including molecular diagnostics

Specialties

  • 5 wellness centers
  • 6 suburban campuses
  • Freestanding outpatient diagnostic urgent care and surgery centers
  • 2 skilled nursing facilities focusing on rehabilitation and long-term nursing care

Key Takeaways

  • An LIS-agnostic solution to integrate molecular instruments simultaneously to Clinical and Anatomical Laboratory Information Systems.
  • Eliminated the need to manage and manually enter and match HPV results with PAP requisitions and interpretations.
  • Automating the process of reflexing HPV results based on institutional and/or practice-specific criteria.
  • Automate notification to cytotechnologists to send vial or create aliquot for molecular testing.