UNC Rex Healthcare Case Study

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.

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.

UNC Rex Healthcare Case Study