Home Introduction History AUSLAB Products Software Modules Pathology Diagnostic Imaging Clinical Measurement Public Health Forensic Science Analytical Laboratories Clinician Access Plus Case Study Services Clients/Partners Careers pjacc@pjacc.com.au level 14, 530 Little Collins St Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia GPO Box 4601SS Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia	Introduction In addition to the rich functionality provided by the core AUSLAB system each AUSLAB module facilitates effective and efficient work practices to meet the unique requirements of each discipline. AUSLAB provides for extensive user configuration, allowing the service to customise the system to meet their own changing requirements. PJACC's intelligent interfaces to analyser equipment and supportive work-flow management facilities ensure the laboratory can cope with the increasing demands placed on them. Versatile and flexible enquiry and reporting facilities ensure that the clients need can be readily satisfied. AUSLAB's image document storage system provides for efficient on-line storage and easy retrieval of request form images and other clinical documents. The AUSLAB Pathology Management System can operate within a single department in a laboratory or provide a fully integrated solution for multi-department laboratories and multiple laboratories across a wide area network PJACC's current installations vary from small regional single person laboratories through to large referral centres. Sophisticated networked systems cross-area health services and facilitate provision of a total statewide solution. Modules AUSLAB offers tailored solutions for the individual departments within pathology to support their specific requirements. In addition to the features provided by the generic AUSLAB solution additional functionality has been identified. Laboratory The core laboratory functionality supports the high throughput areas of the pathology laboratory Efficient specimen registration from the scanned request form image Specimen tracking of specimens both within a facility and between facilities Automatic generation of specimen aliquotting list and labels required Bi-directional interfacing supported to a wide range of pathology analysers All data transferred from analysers retained on-line including results, result flagging graphical and QC data Easy to use analyser interface screens with result flagging Validation rules allow for large percentage of "normal" samples to be processed without user intervention User definable worksheets and workflow management lists Sophisticated quality control packing including Westgard rule checking Facility for entry of quality control data either manually or via worksheets Transfusion Medicine Facility based product inventory permanently retained. Automatically updated audit of testing and despatch transactions performed on each product. Stock inventory and product status automatically updated. Enforced crosschecking of patient and donation blood group. Processed products and quarantined, autologous and dedicated donations facilitated including appropriate crosschecking. Flexible inventory search capability. Automatic updating of patient antibody register including full audit. Complete cross-match/transfusion history from result entry and enquiry screens. Blood group computation and compatibility rule checking. Access to pre-sorted stock inventory based on compatibility rules from cross-match entry screen. User definable maximum surgical blood ordering schedules rules. Specimen suitability, compatibility, genotype and product expiry checking applied. User reports including flexible product usage and crossmatch/transfusion ratio statistics. Easy to use remote sign out and sign in facility for product despatch. Anatomical Medicine Specimen registration based on single registration for each case fully integrated with other departments or separate registration. Automatic allocation and full tracking of case, specimen, block and slide numbering. Separate numbering series for histology, cytology and autopsy supported. Ability to automate default allocation of procedures based on predefined specimen rules. User definable gross procedures, detailed procedures, block types, fixatives and stains. Specialised trim, routine and recut worksheets. Interfaces to cassette writers and slide etchers. Printing/reprinting of sample and slide labels supported including incorporation of full case/specimen/block/slide number and stain details. Ability to direct reporting to individual pathologists lists. Word processing utilising ms word supported including use of macros, standard comments, spell checking and incorporation of medical dictionaries. Fully integrated with voice recognition software at cut up bench and reporting. Integrated snomed code search facility. Touch screen functionality supported. Facilitates multiple screening of gynaecological specimens. Recall notice facility. Interfaces to Pap smear and cancer registers supported. Microbiology Streamlined registration to support entry of multiple specimen types. Allocation of internal department specific consecutive numbering with specimen type/bench prefix. Flexible user definable worklists and review lists based on user defined criteria and including user defined tests. User defined antibiotic database including antibiotic nomination and suppression rules. User defined organism database including organism name, category, primary group and genus for utilisation in epidemiology reports. Bi-directional interfaces to blood culture monitoring systems and organism susceptibility systems. Expert system rules to facilitate auto validation, commenting and reporting of negative results after user defined time period and alert lists for positive results. Expert system rules to support notifiable disease reporting, infection control lists/reports and user definable review criteria. Facility for interim display of microscopy results for external viewing outside the laboratory and interim and final reports. Facility to suppress antibiotic susceptibility results from enquiry view with simple toggle key to release suppression. User definable sample/plate label formats to include barcodes, patient demographic and/or specimen details. Coded result entry supported with full-expanded display. Hot key to cumulative view of previous results, patient request form image and image of final report. Transfer of sensitivity results to external pharmaceutical database systems.