Isoft has confirmed the line-up of speakers for the Isoft Laboratory User Convention in Birmingham on 10-11 June 2010 at Warwickshire County Cricket Ground, Edgbaston.
Speakers include NHS Connecting for Health's (CfH) national clinical lead for pathology, Dr Gifford Batstone; Dr Rick Jones, associate clinical director at Leeds Teaching Hospital; and Prof Peter Hamilton, professor of bio-imaging and informatics at Queen's University, Belfast.
Batstone will discuss the merits of the National Laboratory Medicine Catalogue, a method to standardise requesting and reporting of pathology data and permit communications between different systems.
This CfH initiative also provides a framework for decision support and interpretation of test results.
Jones will chair sessions on the second day but also examine laboratory information systems past and present during a presentation on day one.
Hamilton will examine new developments in digital pathology with a focus on new technologies for converting test samples into digital images that can be shared, managed and analysed online.
Isoft will also demonstrate a number of new developments, including: digital pathology; Labconnect, an automated electronic requesting and reporting solution for clinicians and lab-to-lab connectivity; a cellular pathology module with full word processing and digital dictation; and business intelligence for real-time management reporting and trend analysis.
