Fletcher-Flora Health Care Systems announces new enhancements in the FFlex ePortal Outreach solution

Oct 28 2009

Fletcher-Flora Health Care Systems, Inc. announced today the availability of FFlex ePortal Outreach solution. FFlex ePortal is a comprehensive laboratory outreach solution for healthcare facilities, including hospitals, large or small, reference labs, physician offices, nursing homes, clinics or any other facility that requires secure remote access to patient lab data. This Web-based outreach solution can coexist with your currently installed HIS or LIS systems and allows clients and physician members to place lab orders from remote locations, review results in real time and generate reports. The latest enhancements are intended to simplify access to data, improve communication between labs and their physician customers, and streamline workflow between multiple sites. New enhancements in FFlex ePortal Outreach include, but are not limited to:

• The enhanced doctors’ inbox uses a highly intuitive "dashboard" format which serves as a simplified and streamlined launch pad for accessing patient results
• Nursing homes, group practices or other facilities that send samples to a lab for processing using paper requisitions, can now utilize FFlex ePortal for fast, cost-effective and efficient access to their patient data via the Internet
• Enhanced Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) makes FFlex ePortal even more flexible for physicians wanting their orders placed and their results routed to and from ancillary sites
• New shortcuts added to minimize keystrokes and manual effort - allows physicians to forward results to other ePortal practitioners for consultation and easily communicate with Laboratory Staff.
• Improved graphics for all analytical reports showing trend and historical results by doctor and by analyte

The aggressive pricing strategy and key functional enhancements can help strengthen the relationship between labs and their clients by improving all communication to and from the laboratory, providing real time secure access to patient results and information, and facilitating information sharing among physician colleagues. "In today's environment, healthcare organizations want to leverage their existing systems with complementary applications which provide value and increase customer service", states Terry Watson, VP Sales and Marketing of Fletcher-Flora Health Care Systems, "FFlex ePortal Outreach Solution does exactly that." Labs also benefit by reducing manual steps in the workflow, improving turnaround times, and eliminating paper handling and report delivery. According to Neal Flora, President and CEO of Fletcher-Flora Health Care Systems, “FFlex ePortal Outreach helps labs level the playing field with competing reference labs by providing a simple and cost-effective way to provide customers with access to laboratory results 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with virtually no operational down time.”