Webinars
Contact UsOur live webinar series - and growing webinar library - is a powerful resource for insights on how to get the most out of your Data Innovations solutions. You'll find sessions showcasing new features, solution benefits, overcoming lab industry challenges, optimizing workflows, and more.
Rules Writing 101
Writing rules in Instrument Manager is a powerful tool for increasing efficiency in your lab. Join us for a one hour webinar of an overview of the Rules Engine within Instrument Manager. We will review the Rules Engine workspace, usage of the Rules Toolbox as well as creating and testing some basic Instrument Manager rules.
Learning Objectives
- Understand where rules are written in Instrument Manager.
- Understand the basic tools used to write rules in Instrument Manager.
- Demonstrate and use the 3 methods of writing rules (Drag and Drop, Double-click, Free text).
- Be able to write basic rules in Instrument Manager, including a common calculation.
What's New in IM 8.16
With the anticipation of the release of Instrument Manager (IM) v8.16, we invite you to attend a webinar to discuss the new features and functionalities that have been added.
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What is New in Instrument Manager™ v8.15.10
With the anticipation of the release of Instrument Manager (IM) v8.15.10, we invite you to attend a webinar on Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at 1:30 EST. During this one hour presentation we will discuss the new features and functionalities that have been added to IM v8.15.10, that includes:
- Updates to Specimen Management including SM Workspace:
- Parent / Child rules count
- Read Back
- User interface updates for Rules Processing
- Import/Export of Test/Profile Setup and Coded Entry Setup
There will also be an opportunity to ask an IM expert questions regarding the new release and the upgrade process. Join us on Wednesday, December 6 to learn about the new release of IM v8.15.10.
IM 8.15 New Features & Functionalities
Find out what is new in Instrument Manager v8.15
Data Innovations is excited to announce the upcoming release of Instrument Manager (IM) v8.15. Before the release we want to give our customers and partners a first glimpse into the new features and functionalities that will be included in this release.
This one hour webinar will highlight:
- Two new options for your databases redundancy solution
- High Availability mirroring is an automatic failover functionality in IM. This is beneficial if your primary fails, then the failover IM system can take over as the active primary IM system automatically.
- Disaster Recovery mirroring provides the same backup solution but is a manual process to failover
- Enhanced Specimen Event Log (SEL) with Simplified Traceability
- Displays a simplified view of time-stamped specimen and test events related to a selected specimen
- Updated security settings to prevent free text in coded entry fields
- Simplified upgrading and installation processes
- Shared orders database for lab portability
IT Webinar Series - Diagnostics Tools and RD Web
Data Innovations is continuing our series of IT webinars with a multi-part webinar focused on high level usage of the diagnostics tools related to Instrument Manager™ (IM). We review what is RD Web and the advantages of RD Web over normal Thin Clients, including the deployment of each. The intended audience are those in the laboratory and/or IT departments responsible for setup, configuring and maintaining Instrument Manager in the clinical laboratory environment.
The presentation discusses:
- IM Diagnostic Tools – What They Are and What They Do
- Communications Trace
- Specimen Event Log (SEL)
- System Log
- Loopback Test
- Basic troubleshooting
- Accessing Instrument Manager via Web Browser vs. Thin Client
- Upgrading or Deploying with RD Web vs. Thin Client
- Thin client pulls web help from server now, not loaded locally.
Introducing the Next Generation Hematology Workcell Webinar
Join Data Innovations for a free webinar to discover the next generation hematology workcell that is available with Instrument Manager v8.12. This one hour presentation will show you:
- Overall enhancements to Specimen Management Workspace
- Enhanced hematology workflow
- New actions that have been added to aid workflow
- How to view multiple runs of analyzer results side-by-side
- The streamlined processes to release/reject/rerun hematology results
IT Webinar Series – Daylight Savings, Third Party Antivirus and Test Systems
Data Innovations is beginning a new, multi-part webinar series that is focused on the Information Technology (IT) side of Instrument Manager™ rather than features and benefits of specific functionality. The intended audience are those in the laboratory and/or IT departments responsible for setup, configuring and maintaining Instrument Manager in the clinical laboratory environment. The webinar topics selected for this series are some of the most frequently asked questions about Instrument Manager. The first webinar in this series will focus on:
Daylight Savings Time - 10 Minutes- We will discuss how to change DST and stopping IM/Cache and why this is important. As well as address any concerns from the IM/Cache perspective.
- We will explore what exclusions are required, why isn’t it easy to explicitly list all locations in the manual and why do we need to exclude these directories/files.
- During this segment you will learn about deploying Live and Test Instrument Manager systems. We will discuss how to configure the systems so that test and live patient specimens are processed appropriately and how to handle new instrument setups, application builds and system upgrades and the benefits of validation and verification on a test system.
Come explore the other side of Instrument Manager during this one hour presentation. There will also be a Q&A session at the conclusion of the webinar where you will have the opportunity to ask the experts questions relating to the topics from each session.
IT Webinar Series - Shutting Down IM, Applying Patches, Security Keys and Upgrading IM
Data Innovations is continuing our series of IT webinars with a multi-part webinar focused on four new topics related to Instrument Manager™. The intended audience are those in the laboratory and/or IT departments responsible for setup, configuring and maintaining Instrument Manager in the clinical laboratory environment. The webinar topics selected for this series are critical in understanding the proper process and procedure for applying and executing upgrades and patches for Instrument Manager.
This IT series will focus on:
- Shutting Down Instrument Manager and Cache - 5 minutes
We will review the correct process for shutting down IM and Cache.This was a common question from our first IT webinar series and we wanted to review the process step by step. - How to apply Microsoft® patches - 10 Minutes
Every month DI sends out a notice that the Microsoft Security updates have been installed and tested. This segment will review the instructions how to validate and apply OS patches. - How to manage security key replacements – 10 minutes
We will explore the difference between hard keys and soft keys and how to change or replace keys. - Executing an IM core upgrade - 35 Minutes
During this segment you will learn about core enhancements vs. patch upgrades as well as how to process the upgrade. We will go through the preparation needed for an upgrade, abbreviated instructions on how to do the upgrade, including thin clients and shadow systems.
Come explore the other side of Instrument Manager. There will also be a Q&A session at the conclusion of the webinar where you will have the opportunity to ask the experts questions relating to the topics from each session.
What is New in Instrument Manager v8.14
In November 2015 Data Innovations released Instrument Manager Version 8.14. This release features new updates to Laboratory Intelligence, Rules Processing, third-party QC integration and SM Workspace screens. We are excited to deliver a free 1 hour webinar outlining the new features and functionality of this version.
Join us to discuss:
- The enhancements to the rules capabilities that can help you improve your workflow efficiency and increase your percentage of autoverification
- The updates made to SM Workspace including customization and updated filter logic
- The introduction of Open QC Framework which allows third-party vendors and LIS/LIMS vendors to develop or expand their Quality Control software integration with Instrument Manager
- Updates to the Laboratory Intelligence module that allows you to data mine the long-term archive database of Instrument Manager in addition to the production database
Download the recording today to hear the Director of Development go through the newest version of IM and what it means for you. With these updates we continue to deliver tomorrow's lab, today.
What is New in Instrument Manager v8.14.10
Recently, Data Innovations released Instrument Manager Version 8.14.10. This release features new updates to Specimen Routing and Test Code Mapping, as well as improvements to the Specimen Management Workspace. This free, 30 minute webinar will demo the changes made in IM 8.14.10 and how these enhancements improve efficiency.
Join us to discuss:
- Editing configurations in Specimen Routing (SR)
- IHE Law Support
- Improvements to Test Code Mapping when ordering multiple occurrences of tests
- Importing and Exporting Color Formatting
- Run Pane Improvements
- Using Specimen Warnings
Register today to hear the Director of Development go through the newest version of IM and what it means for you. With these updates we continue to deliver tomorrow's lab, today.
EP Evaluator 12.1 What's New
It's Easy Peasy
We are excited to announce the latest release of EP Evaluator® (EE) from Data Innovations. In our newest EP Evaluator release 12.1 – available now – we’ve introduced several key features for all EE versions, including our Standard, Network Standard, Professional, and Network Professional versions.
During this webinar we will review:
- Enhancements made to the Composite, Linearity and Calibration Verification reports
- The automated set up for thin client installation
- The seamless integration between EP Evaluator and Instrument Manager™
- The benefits to upgrading to EE 12.1
EP Evaluator 12.0 What's New
It's Easy Peasy
Following the release of EP Evaluator (EE)12.0, Data Innovations is hosting a webinar to review all the new features and functionality that have been added and enhanced.
During this webinar we will review:
- The new statistical module EP09-A3 that has advanced statistical analysis capability in accordance with the methods described in CLSI protocol EP09-A3 (2013) "Measurement Procedure Comparison and Bias Estimation Using Patient Samples.”
- Online help that is now context-sensitive help along with a number of other enhancements.
- Added multifunction desktop quick help buttons
- Benefits of upgrading to EE 12.0
Automated Data Acquisition with EP Evaluator
Focus your time on measuring your lab's performance
Save hours of time and frustration by automating data acquisition from the leading middleware product, Instrument Manager, to EP Evaluator. Attend Data Innovation's FREE, one-hour and informative webinar to learn:
- Benefits of automated data acquisition
- How to connect EP Evaluator with Instrument Manager
- Step-by-Step using EP Evaluator wizard to acquire data from Instrument Manager
- Minimum requirements needed for integration
Discover the New Features in EP Evaluator 11.0
Are you an EP Evaluator® customer that is using version 8 or below? If so, you are missing out on significant features released over the last three years. See what is new with EE Release 11:
- Incident tracking enhancements
- 10 different ways to import or enter data
- Multiple Instrument Comparison (MIC) able to compare specimens with some missing results across instruments
- Data capture directly from Instrument Manager™
- Simple Accuracy using two standard levels with target ranges
- New Competency Assessment module
- New Stability Module
- New Factor Sensitivity Module
- Enhancements to the Simple Inventory Module
- Composite reports
- And more!
Achieve faster, more streamlined operations with IM using Autoverification
Data Innovations VA and VHA experts Liesl Wilson and Evelyn Harrison will share their hands-on experiences of how the only VHA-approved Autoverification solution is adding hundreds of hours of efficiency to daily lab operations for dozens of VHAs across the country.
Learn how you can:
- Improve patient safety by standardizing result reporting and notification
- Improve lab test turnaround times (TAT)
- Enable more efficient and accountable QC
Learn how your VHA peers are reaping the benefits of streamlined results validation – and how your lab can too.
Gain Hours of Lab Efficiency with IM Autoverification
Imagine if you could improve turn-around time while providing your clinical lab scientists additional time to attend to the true exceptions – and you could do it using a solution you already own.
That’s exactly what Valley Children’s Hospital was able to accomplish with Instrument Manager Autoverification. Register today to join our upcoming webinar with Valley Children’s as they share their journey to significant efficiency gains with lab rules automation.
Learn how Valley Children’s Hospital – a nationally respected pediatric healthcare network – launched Autoverification from Instrument Manager to:
- Add hours of efficiency to daily lab operations
- Improve lab test turnaround times
- Enable more efficient and accountable QC
- Modernize lab culture and boost CLS confidence
Learn how to get even more from Autoverification to optimize lab workflows and help your CLS bench excel.
What is the Future of your Laboratory?
The next steps in building the foundation for the clinical Laboratory
No matter the discipline, number of labs in your network, or number of samples processed a day, Data Innovations is committed to helping every customer become a best-run laboratory. So how can we work together as one institution?
With Instrument Manager you have the ability to standardize your laboratory across your institutions, disciplines and instruments. With an enumeration of vendors for EMR’s, LIS and middleware systems, you need a solution that will create harmonization across your enterprise. Instrument Manager is a vendor neutral, scalable solution that helps achieve your laboratories goals and delivers quality care to its patients.
Join Data Innovations for a 1 hour, free webinar to learn about how Instrument Manager can help solve the problems of today’s laboratory through:
- Increased efficiency
- Creating consistency and scalability across your institution
- Reducing the strain of reduced staff
- Increased production through automation
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Automated Data Analysis of Clinical Mass Spectrometry Results
Join Data Innovations and Providence Regional Laboratories for a one hour webinar to discuss the utilization of Instrument Manager to automate data review of clinical mass spectrometry results. Learn more about how Providence Regional Laboratories was able to improve efficiency, reduce errors and standardize their processes by using Instrument Manager.
During this webinar we will discuss:
- The need for an automated data review solution in clinical mass spectrometry workflows
- What data analysis barriers currently exist for many mass spectrometry laboratories
- A brief description of how this new solution provides dynamic automated data review options in the toxicology laboratory
- How Providence Regional Laboratories is implementing this solution into their entire toxicology testing strategy
Meet Your Presenter
Dr. Saitman received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at the University of California, San Diego where he focused his research on the total synthesis of marine natural products. He completed his fellowship training in Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology in the Department of Pathology at the University of California, San Diego under the guidance of Dr. Robert Fitzgerald. Dr. Saitman is double boarded by the American Board of Clinical Chemistry in clinical chemistry and clinical toxicology. He is currently the section head of clinical toxicology and special chemistry at Providence Regional Laboratories in Portland Oregon.
The University of Iowa Talks Autoverification in Clinical Chemistry
Using Autoverification allows your laboratory to automate the review and release of patient results based on your predefined criteria. But ask yourself, “Are you getting the level of productivity and efficiency you could?” What level of automation am I achieving? 40%, 50%, 60%?
Join Dr. Matthew Krasowski of The University of Iowa as he discusses their journey from 40% autoverification with their LIS to over 99% using middleware. In addition, Dr. Krasowski will discuss:
- The University of Iowa’s experience with Autoverification
- Increasing billables per tech by 32% while volume increased by 18+%
- The University of Iowa's best practices for a high rate of Autoverification
- Catching rare events that elude low levels of autoverification
- And more
Matthew D. Krasowski, MD, PhD is a pathologist and Director of Clinical Laboratories in the Department of Pathology at The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Prior to moving to Iowa in July 2009, he spent four years at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center as director of the Toxicology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring laboratory. He has interest in the use of informatics to improve clinical laboratory efficiency and quality.
Vancouver Coastal Presents Autoverification in Hematology
Vancouver Coastal is an Academic Health Science Centre that processes approximately 1200 CBC's daily. With that amount of volume they needed to find a way to increase turnaround time and productivity, while still maintaining quality. With the implementation of Autoverification and Sysmex Hematology instruments, Vancouver Coastal was able to:
- Have a 95% Autoverification rate
- Have a 34% Reduction in TAT
- Create rules for Departmental Specialties
- Change instruments - Revised Rules in 2 days
- Tightly integrate CellaVision within the workflow
- Move the lab towards a paperless system
Join Data Innovations and Vancouver Coastal Health for a webinar that will walk through the process of evaluating and implementing Autoverification as well as an overview of the implementation process.
Autoverification can help save you time and money by freeing up valuable resources in the laboratory by focusing on the true exceptions. Let Vancouver Coastal show you how they did it.
Daily and Peer QC Integration
Learn how labs can easily integrate with major QC programs – like Bio-Rad, ThermoScientific and more - to automatically deliver QC results and receive responses directly back in Instrument Manager. Register today to see how your lab can have increased confidence with Daily & Peer QC from Instrument Manager.
Expand IM’s reach for Smarter QC
If you work in a lab, you know that incorrect results can put your lab’s good name at risk.
Did you know that Moving Averages & Moving Medians – from the Instrument Manager solution that powers your lab today – lets you detect systematic instrument shifts hours before your next QC event so you can identify problematic results before they reach patients and practitioners?
Learn how you can expand Instrument Manger solution reach with Moving Averages & Moving Medians
- Reducing risk of incorrect results and corrected reports
- Reduce re-work, and focus on real work
- Eliminate extra QC runs, saving time and money
Automated Proficiency Test Reporting
Manual entry of proficiency testing is time consuming and prone to errors. You can truly automate the process by sending the results directly from the instruments to CAP's e-LAB Solutions web portal. Automatically transmitting the results eliminates the need for manual transcription, reducing PT failures and delivering results faster than ever before.
Laboratories benefit from running CAP Proficiency Testing (PT) more like a patient specimen by:
- Significantly reducing clerical errors responsible for nearly 40% of all PT failures*
- Reducing the time and resources necessary to run PT
- Re-allocating staff time to more patient-centric activities
During this session, attendees will learn more about e-LAB Solutions Connect™ - including benefits, requirements, and how to get started.
The Inspection Survival Guide: How to Navigate a Laboratory Inspection with Middleware
Your middleware is up and running and you are already seeing the benefits of autoverification with improved turnaround times, improved employee satisfaction and less chaos in your lab. You already have plans to expand middleware to your next workarea, but your CAP window is about to open.
Navigating the ins and outs of an inspection can be daunting. Even though middleware has helped to standardize and automate many of your lab processes, you have also increased your regulatory compliance burden. Since there is no one, right way to address a CAP inspection, knowledge sharing is the next best thing. Join us for a webinar that will walk you through the key parts of the CAP™ checklists as it relates to middleware from someone who has been the inspector and the inspected for over 20 years and more than 10 year's experience with autoverification.
During this webinar we will discuss:
- Review the following CAP Checklist(s):
- Lab General (8.17.16)
- All Common (8.17.16)
- Hematology and Coagulation (8.17.16)
- Chemistry and Toxicology (8.17.16)
- Using tools within Instrument Manager
- Specimen Event Log (SEL), Audit Trail and Specimen Tracking
- Rules Testing Mechanism
Data Innovations wants to help you prepare for next audit and provide helpful information on how to construct the "Evidence of Compliance" necessary to make your CAP inspection as successful as possible.
CAP is trademark by College of American Pathologists, Northfield, IL, 60093.
What is Moving Averages and How to Deploy It
Ever wonder what Moving Averages can do for you and your lab? Have you wondered what type of investment and time it would take to get up running? Get the answers to your questions by attending a free webinar by Data Innovations. During this 1 hour presentation you will learn:
- What Moving Averages can do for you
- Benefits to using Moving Averages
- Quick steps to getting up and running with Moving Averages
Using Moving Averages within your lab helps reduce costs while saving you time and resources. With continuous monitoring you can detect early shifts and drifts much quicker than traditional QC methods. And this can be done with any instrument, any test, anywhere across your enterprise.
The ability to get started with Moving Averages is a lot easier than you think. Come hear how DI has made this process simple so you can start monitoring your system in real time.
How to Setup and Configure Moving Averages
Using Moving Averages within your lab helps reduce costs while saving you time and resources. With continuous monitoring you can detect early shifts and drifts much quicker than traditional QC methods. And this can be done with any instrument, any test, anywhere across your enterprise. Register for this webinar to see how to set up and configure Moving Averages.
How to Test, Deploy & Refine Moving Averages
Using Moving Averages within your lab helps reduce costs while saving you time and resources. With continuous monitoring you can detect early shifts and drifts much quicker than traditional QC methods. And this can be done with any instrument, any test, anywhere across your enterprise. Join us for a 1 hour webinar to learn how to test, deploy and refine Moving Averages.
Quality Control with Bio-Rad Unity Real Time
As a laboratory professional you understand the importance of quality control and helping to maintain the integrity of your laboratory's results. So what if we told you that we could make this part of your job just a bit easier, reducing the data errors and provide QC feedback in real-time? With Instrument Manager™ and Bio-Rad's Unity Real Time®, you get an integrated Quality Control solution that allows you to:
- Automatically and instantly enter QC results into Unity Real Time®
- Immediate Westgard QC rules evaluation
- Statistical review, documentation and analysis across all controls across your enterprise
- Web-based, peer grouping via Bio-Rad's QCNet™
- Get On-demand interlaboratory comparison reports for real-time troubleshooting
Not only can you instantly send QC results to Unity Real Time® but Data Innovations is the only middleware company to offer the ability to instantly receive the results of the QC evaluation from Unity Real Time - electronically and automatically so that you can incorporate into your workflow. This allows you to alter your results production by notifying appropriate personnel and add comments/flags to patient results for specific tests and instruments based on the type of QC failure detected, even if you have not implemented autoverification.
By attending this free webinar you will learn:
- High level overview of Bio-Rad Unity Real Time
- Quick overview of how to integrate Instrument Manager with Bio-Rad Unity Real Time
- Example of rules to integrate Bio-Rad Unity Real Time
Simplifying Quality with LabLink xL and Instrument Manager
LabLink xL allows the transfer of data, real time, from your instruments via Instrument Manager. It is 100% web-based quality assurance program that allows data to be submitted and accessed anytime. This on-demand solution allows peer to peer comparison and daily QC review making it an easy way to manage QC in your laboratory.
Join us for a webinar to learn about:
- How LabLink xL can simplify Quality Control
- How to automate real time data transfer via Instrument Manager
- Quick step guide for setting up bi-directional communication
- Reducing errors via data automation
- And more!
Accessing Your Lab's Data in Real Time
Getting access to lab operational data has typically been an arduous, manual and time consuming task. This scalable solution can benefit the smallest lab to the largest integrated health networks with multiple, disparate information systems.
Laboratory Intelligence (Lab Intel), released with Instrument Manager Version 8.13, is the future of performance management in the laboratory. With fully customizable dashboards, you can now have access to timely, actionable performance metrics. It provides a snapshot of laboratory operations that helps lab management focus on key operational issues.
Data Innovations is hosting a 1 hour webinar that will focus on:
- How Lab Intel can benefit you and your lab
- Pre-configured Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and customizable dashboards
- Metrics that can be monitored with Lab Intel
- What you need to get started
During this session, attendees will learn more about e-LAB Solutions Connect™ - including benefits, requirements, and how to get started.
How Today's Chemistry Lab is Utilizing Laboratory Intelligence
We understand that getting access to lab operational data has typically been an arduous, manual and time consuming task. But with Laboratory Intelligence you can now have an insight in to your lab’s performance, allowing you to access timely, actionable performance metrics. This scalable solution can benefit the smallest lab to the largest integrated health networks with multiple, disparate information systems.
As a non-profit academic health center serving a patient population of 1.9 million as well as 30 outpatient clinic locations across multiple states, they understand that their operations need to run a smoothly and efficiently as possible. Having access to timely, actionable performance metrics. It provides a snapshot of laboratory operations that helps lab management focus on key operational issues.
During this webinar we will go through how this high profile site:
- Was able to quantify their performance metrics
- Was able to customize dashboards to produce real-time reports and monitor productivity and improve their clinical chemistry operations
- Used Laboratory Intelligence adjust draw times, perform scheduled instrument maintenance and determine bench staffing levels and times to match volume and turn-around times
- Was able to increase Autoverification levels based on information discerned from the Laboratory Intelligence reports
Lab Intelligence from Instrument Manager
Your lab generates a wealth of data – across instruments, disciplines, patients, and possibly even across labs. Imagine if you could easily aggregate and harness the power of that data across your lab to drive operational insight and improvement?
When Instrument Manager (IM) from Data Innovations is the backbone of your lab, it’s easy to tap into the aggregated data available across the instruments, disciplines, and labs that IM connects.
That’s why labs choose Lab Intelligence from Instrument Manager. It’s a powerful solution that delivers a proactive line-of-sight to bottlenecks, efficiency issues, and key KPIs.
Watch this recorded webinar to learn more about what Lab Intelligence from Instrument Managerhas to offer your lab!
High Availability & Disaster Recovery can safeguard your lab
Unplanned IT outages happen. About 45% of them are caused by hardware failure.
If your Instrument Manager server goes down, it’s not only a headache… it’s expensive. Think about lost or deferred revenue from tests you are unable to perform, lost productivity while you wait for a new server to be brought online, recovery and equipment replacement expenses to your IT organization, and more.
But Data Innovations makes it easy to protect your lab’s IM reliability - with High Availability & Disaster recovery for Instrument Manager. With High Availability & Disaster Recovery in place, your lab will be on its way to an infrastructure you can count on for systems issues small and large.
Read this short overview to learn how High Availability & Disaster Recovery can safeguard your lab when outages happen.
Automating Your Failover Process With High Availability
In this one hour webinar we discuss High Availability for Instrument Manager™ (IM). High Availability continuously monitors and detects failure conditions and automatically failover to your redundant system with limited to no IT involvement.
During this webinar we will discuss:
- What is High Availability with IM
- The difference between High Availability and Hot Back Up
- The architecture and components of High Availability
We understand that an unplanned downtime not only causes chaos but also means less time spent on processing patient samples and delaying results. By automating the monitoring and detection of these conditions and then automatically failing over, you can allow your lab to continue to run smoothly and efficiently.