How Cloud Pathology is changing the landscape of SARS CoV-2 (Covid-19) testing
There is no denying the fact that 2020, the year of Covid-19 has created a havoc in the healthcare industry. Pathology labs and diagnostic centers are extremely overworked to keep up with increased testing to diagnose the spread of SARS CoV-2 virus. The unique challenges involved in conducting large scale testing, data analysis and contact tracing have inspired us to build an intelligent, and automated software solution in our offering of Cloud Pathology LIMS.
Cloud Pathology has been proven in the industry to offer following benefits
- Significantly reduced human efforts. Can help save over 80% of your staff’s time.
- Can essentially reduce errors to zero.
- Provide individual reports to patients digitally.
- Can help significantly to multiply testing capacity.
As soon as the virus hit the country, Cloud Pathology (https://cloudpathology.io/) got to the bottom of the chaotic testing and data management practices so that the diagnostic centers and hospitals could work efficiently and effectively and their day to day work could be reduced by up to 80% enabling doctors and staff to focus only on their core functions while Cloud Pathology takes care of all the mundane tasks and repetitive tasks.
Eliminating the need of feeding data manually
Gone are the days when data operators had to manually jot down the report results and feed it into a MS Word or Excel template to generate a report. Cloud Pathology automatically interfaces with all the leading RT PCR instruments and can automate plate creation as well as report generation. This saves tremendous time, and reduces the chance of error to practically 0%.
Automated Plate Generation for RT PCR Machines
Cloud Pathology can save you the trouble of designing the plate for PCR testing. You can just select the samples in Cloud Pathology, and send them for testing on the PCR machine. Cloud Pathology automatically assigns the wells. This saves hours of tedious work of designing the plate file by technicians. Cloud Pathology also has the build in pooling support.
Automatic delivery of reports to patients
Delivery of reports has always been a major concern for the labs during this pandemic. Any delay in the delivery of reports is something that always bothers the anxious patients and affects the reputation of lab. Cloud Pathology ensures automatic delivery of reports to the patients via Email/SMS/WhatsApp as soon as the microbiologist confirms the results. With patients fearing a visit to the testing center to collect their Covid-19 results, an intimation on the phone/PC saves them from immeasurable stress. It can also alert the contact tracing teams, and district authorities in real time.
Automated data uploading to ICMR
Yes, you heard that right! No human intervention required what so ever.
The initial months of Covid-19 testing brought a lot of stress for the data entry operators to comply with the Health Ministry’s requirement of updating patient’s details and test results on the ICMR website. Cloud Pathology landed on the war front as a savior and saved the operators from the monotonous form filling by automatically completing and submitting them on the ICMR website in real time as soon as results are available in Cloud pathology. This has saved thousands of data entry hours, and it’s one of our most beloved features. The data uploading happens seamlessly in background without any human intervention.
Hybrid Cloud-Based solution
The hybrid (cloud based + on premise server) nature of Cloud Pathology sets it apart from the software available in the field of Pathology labs. The problem of server-loss is no more a worry because it can function on the on-premise server. This data can also be accessed from anywhere in the world as it supports cloud storage.
Consolidated Report Generation
Cloud Pathology offers the option of generating consolidated reports indicting facts such as total number of patients tested, number of patients tested negative or positive and their age groups and on the basis of other factors at the end of the day/a period of time which can be sent to the official authorities such as the municipal corporation & state magistrate for their record and contact tracing.
Data Analytics and Visualization
How worthwhile is a software if it is incapable of compiling statistical data in the form of data visualization such as bar graph, pie chart, histograms to make comparison and analysis easier and quicker. Cloud Pathology includes accounting features that display all the transactions made during the day, the mode of payment and so on.
Covid-19 testing has made the Pathological Operations extremely laborious and tiresome so in order to accelerate the data processing speed, Connection Loops is eager to offer its flagship software Cloud Pathology to automate COVID-19 testing at your lab. Cloud Pathology can help reduce burden on your staff, as well as automate the entire reporting process with absolutely zero data entry, and hence help reduce reporting errors.
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Author: Amulya Sharma
