Get the most value out of your IDEXX VetLab® system

NEW for the IDEXX VetLab® Station!

Now you can store SNAP® results electronically for an all-inclusive printout with software version 2.20

The new software version 2.20 will allow you to transform many of your record-keeping workflows and seamlessly integrate your SNAP results into the same database and printout as your VetLab diagnostic information.

For the first time, you can store your SNAP results electronically, generate a complete and inclusive patient report and automatically upload your SNAP test results into your practice management system for proper billing and incorporation into your electronic medical records.

To use this new capability:
Select the ANALYZE SAMPLE button on the HOME screen of your IDEXX VetLab Station.
Type the appropriate patient and client information, then select NEXT.
Select the desired SNAP device(s) on the bottom of the screen, then press RUN.
On the HOME screen, tap the SNAP icon that is labeled with the patient’s name. When you are ready, start the SNAP timer and snap the device. When the timer reaches zero, a SNAP TIMER COMPLETED message appears. By pressing the Enter Results Now button on that message, you can enter the results of the test.
To enter the results, select the appropriate image/test results that correspond to your visual measurement.
Press OK to save your results and return to the previous screen.

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The IDEXX VetLab® Station results printout has a new look—and it's going to give you a better look at your patients.

We've changed the order of the results and added additional information so you can easily identify abnormalities.

What are the changes?

• A new column shows the patient’s most recent prior results for easy comparison.

• The primary chemistries for each organ are grouped together.

• Hematology results now have the major components—RBCs, WBCs and platelets—grouped together, with additional subgroupings to help you rapidly characterize specific changes.

How do the changes help you?

• Easy comparison of results over time on a single printout helps you recognize subtle abnormalities, allowing you to diagnose diseases at earlier stages.

• Grouping multiple tests associated with organ systems together also makes it easier to identify abnormalities that might otherwise be overlooked.

• The organized, easy-to-read printout makes it easier to explain trends in patients’ results with your clients.

For more information about the new printout, call your IDEXX representative or call IDEXX at 1-800-355-2896.

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Invest in your practice!

Fritz Wood, CPA, CFP, references The Art of Veterinary Practice Management by Mark Opperman, CVPM, which states that practitioners fail to bill clients an average of $40,000 a year for services rendered.

Typically, laboratory test requisitions and billing systems are two separate entities that require an individual to manually transfer information from the instrument printout into the client's invoice.

Wood notes that when your practice management system is coupled with your in-house laboratory directly, far fewer charges are missed. "This represents a significant chunk of money," he adds.

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Meet Anestes Fotiades
Usability Architect

Anestes has worked at IDEXX for nearly five years. He began as an information architect for the Web team, and over the past two years has shifted toward helping the product development teams with user interface design and usability. During May 2006, he became IDEXX’s usability architect for the product development teams.

Anestes came to IDEXX from an IT consulting firm. He applied at IDEXX because being part of an internal team meant he could consistently focus on the needs of a single customer and stay involved in a set of projects over the long term. Anestes considers his primary goal at IDEXX as improving the usability of IDEXX’s products for its customers.

“IDEXX is unique in that it brings such a wide range of innovative products to the veterinary market. With our extensive research and development teams, we can build an integrated set of tools that help doctors and technicians practice better medicine and do so more efficiently. The IDEXX VetLab® Station Laboratory Information Management System is naturally a critical part of this integration. Of course, the better the end user’s experience with our products, the more confidence and trust we build—that’s why usability is so important,” Anestes explains.

Anestes lives in Portland and loves it. “Portland has it all—sea, mountains, city and country, as well as great food and a thriving art community.” His hobbies include reading, cooking and cycling.

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IDEXX VetLab® UA™ reporting gets a boost

The IDEXX VetLab Station now has the capability of capturing urinalysis information when connected to the IDEXX VetLab UA Analyzer. The integration of the VetLab UA allows for the automatic integration of the IDEXX UA strip results into your IDEXX VetLab Station and onto your patient results printouts.

By capturing all the urinalysis information, you can:

• Incorporate it into the electronic medical record without manual data entry.

• Get the urinalysis results incorporated into the same printout as the rest of your VetLab results.

• Transmit the information to your practice management system.

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COMING SOON... IDEXX VetLab® Station/Cornerstone® Complete Circuit Connection—it's a revolution in information management!

Completely revolutionize your workflow and data management by enabling the Complete Circuit SmartLink™ Connection between the IDEXX VetLab Station and the IDEXX Cornerstone practice management system. The new Complete Circuit SmartLink Connection allows the automatic transfer of in-house blood work requests directly to the IDEXX VetLab Station, where they will appear in a sample queue. The patient results will then automatically upload to Cornerstone when completed.

Here's how it works:

1. Set up a laboratory requisition for a patient as you normally would in Cornerstone. The patient information will automatically appear on the IDEXX VetLab Station.

2. Select the patient you want to run by highlighting the patient name in the Sample Queue and pressing Run on the IDEXX VetLab Station Home Screen.

3. Select the IDEXX VetLab analyzers or SNAP tests you want to use and run the tests.

4. When the tests are complete, the results are automatically transferred to Cornerstone and are incorporated into your electronic medical records.

This connection incorporates IDEXX SmartLink technology, increasing laboratory efficiency by eliminating the need to re-enter patient information into the IDEXX VetLab Station after initiating a laboratory requisition from Cornerstone. The Complete Circuit Connection virtually eliminates orphan results.

In addition, you will improve practice revenue by eliminating unbilled laboratory work through the automatic transfer of data to client invoices.

For more information about how you can take advantage of this new technology, contact your IDEXX Computer Services sale representative at
1-800-283-8386

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IDEXX Customer Support is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Toll-free: 1-800-248-2483
Fax: 1-800-248-3010

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