Ohiohealth has implemented Sysmex's latest software release, Version 4.0 of the Sysmex WAM haematology data-management system.
Version 4.0 will help Ohiohealth achieve its long-term growth strategies of improved turnaround time and lowering review rates.
Already processing nearly 2,500 haematology orders per day, Ohiohealth plans to leverage the new features in Version 4.0, including an alerts module and the re-designed user-interface software to enhance the user experience.
Five of Ohiohealth's hospitals have been using Sysmex haematology analysers, automation and Sysmex WAM since August 2007.
Four of its hospitals - Riverside Methodist Hospital, Grant Medical Center, Dublin Methodist Hospital and Doctors Hospital - have been equipped with the Sysmex HST-N automation line (most with two XE-2100 automated haematology analysers and a slidemaker/stainer) and the fifth, Grady Memorial Hospital, uses the Sysmex XE-2100 haematology analyser and XS-1000i analyser.
All of these hospitals' haematology equipment and automation are connected to Ohiohealth's enterprise network and are interfaced to a single Sysmex WAM system with both multi-site and multi-LIS capability.
Sysmex WAM interfaces to two laboratory information systems at Ohiohealth: McKesson's Horizon Lab and Soft Computer Corporation's Softlab.
Sysmex will officially launch Sysmex WAM Version 4.0 later this autumn.
