Success Story: Integrated Specimen Label Printing

Digi-Trax Corporation (www.digi-trax.com), a leading integrator for automatic data collection and identification systems in the healthcare industry, deployed an integrated labeling solution in the laboratory of Geisinger Health Systems (www.geisinger.org) in Danville, PA, that enables printing of bar coded specimen labels from the Laboratory Information System (LIS) throughout the healthcare organization. 

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NiceLabel Suite with NiceWatch and NiceLabel Pro

Challenge

Geisinger Health Systems needed to replace the old labeling printers with new bar code printers. The old printers contained a customized chip to format the labels according to the pre-defined specifications. However, with the introduction of the new bar code printers from Cognitive Solutions, the printing system lost the ability to format the data coming from the Misys^® LIS application. The new printers could not print the pre-designed specimen labels. Geisinger Health System needed some way to print the same label formats on the new printers.

Solution

The NiceLabel Suite software with NiceLabel Pro and the NiceWatch module provided an easy and cost-effective solution to the printing challenges.

The document analysis filter in NiceWatch parses the printing code of the old printers and maps the data to variables on a label template created by NiceLabel Pro. The NiceWatch application works as an intermediate step between the Misys lab system and the label printers themselves.

The NiceWatch print server technology customizes the label format that comes out of the Misys lab system and distributes those formatted bar coded labels to various locations throughout the laboratory and hospital systems. The healthcare provider is able to keep the same label format that the laboratory already used and, more importantly, uses the same label stock that they were using with the previous printer model.

Benefits

The NiceLabel Suite solution allows the laboratory to customize the label output from the Misys Lab system. The increased flexibility in format design and routing of specimen labels helps the laboratory to meet business needs and certain regulatory requirements.

Digi-Trax Corporation gained the ability to provide a total solution with the best-of-class product to meet specific application requirements. Thanks to the versatility of the NiceLabel software “the benefits to our organization are numerous,” states John Kling, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Digi-Trax, “but ultimately it is the confidence that Digi-Trax can provide a total Auto-ID labeling solution to meet any new patient safety initiative or identification requirements in the healthcare arena.”

Additional benefits of the NiceWatch module are:

• Event-driven application capable of monitoring and detecting data in many different formats to trigger the start of label printing
• Automates label printing in a multi-operating system environment (Unix, AS/400, Host, etc.) or complex application environments (ERP, WMS, etc.)
• Seamless integration with foreign and remote systems
• Quick set up, NO programming required
• Reliable print server technology for high-demand printing environments
• Affordable and cost-effective solution
• No additional printer licensing
• And more…

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