Improving Performance in Cerner Millennium Labs
Unlock seamless connectivity, flexible workflows, increased productivity, and improved patient care with Data Innovations’ limitless lab enablement solutions for Oracle Cerner Millennium PathNet Labs.
PROBLEMS + SOLUTIONS
Challenges Faced in Oracle Cerner Labs
01.
Managing multiple lab disciplines and sites within a large healthcare organization can be fraught with complexity and inefficiencies.
Solution: Data Innovations (DI) simplifies enterprise lab management by enabling labs to control testing for all disciplines and lab sites through a single Instrument Manager™ (IM) middleware system, incorporating consistent standards and clinical workflows for quality patient care.
02.
Workflow changes and fixes within a Cerner lab can take longer than desired and require vendor involvement as well as on-site IT resource hours.
Solution: With Instrument Manager, labs can efficiently take control of their connectivity and workflows for maximum productivity. DI Middleware empowers lab staff with intuitive tools to create and manage workflows, monitor performance, and resolve issues independently.
03.
Labs often face extended waiting periods of up to a year or more when requesting new driver enhancements or fixes.
Solution: DI has a committed driver development team that works to deliver enhanced and new drivers to customers as a top priority, typically between 2-3 months.
04.
Labs may be charged extra to repurpose instrument connections when upgrading or switching out instruments.
Solution: We never charge customers to repurpose connections. We also provide any driver a customer needs for no additional cost.
05.
Manual execution of quality assurance and compliance activities can be highly resource-intensive and increase the likelihood of errors.
Solution: Instrument Manager offers integrated lab quality assurance functions that automate and streamline QC processes and reporting, saving significant resource time and improving patient care.
FEATURED RESOURCE
Is your Oracle Cerner lab performing to its full potential?
Download our Cerner Lab Assessment to find out what your lab may be missing.
FEATURES + BENEFITS
Work smarter. Streamline workflows. Enhance patient care.
With all-in-one lab workflow management and integrated laboratory automation solutions, Instrument Manager puts you in control of your lab and enables you to achieve more.
Full Interoperability
IM middleware provides a centralized, vendor-neutral platform with flexible, cost-effective connectivity and customizable workflows, reducing reliance on Cerner customer support, and freeing up IT resources.
- We continually add new drivers to our library of over 1,200 instrument drivers. And if a specific new driver or added functionality is needed for a customer, we’ll develop it for no additional cost.
- Our customers never pay a fee when repurposing connections to swap out or upgrade an instrument.
Flexible Workflows
DI middleware empowers lab staff with intuitive tools to manage workflows, monitor performance, and resolve issues independently.
- Instrument Manager’s large range of drivers, data elements, and highly intuitive and customizable rules engine support unlimited workflow possibilities in the laboratory.
- IM can be administered by laboratorians who can update configurations and test changes within minutes.
- A built-in AV Rules Validation engine within IM ensures no wasted reagents and down time occurs when testing decision rules logic
Higher Autoverification Rates
Autoverification from Instrument Manager can auto-validate up to 95% of test processing across disciplines—reducing turnaround time, improving patient safety, and freeing up staff to focus on patient care.
- Instrument Manager’s flexible rules engine lets you tailor AV workflows for all disciplines.
- Rule options include critical value alerts, QC violations, automated reflex testing, delta checks, and positive infectious disease results.
- A built-in AV rules validation engine that ensures no down time or wasted reagents occur when testing decision rules logic
Comprehensive Rules Engine
The IM rules engine supports fully customizable workflows that allow customers to streamline and improve patient care.
- With hundreds of possible data elements available to laboratorians, rules can range from simple, such as flagging a critical value, to complex – a result triggering a next-step reflex test.
- A built-in testing engine can validate rules before they go into production.
Unplanned downtime is one of the leading challenges faced by lab today. DI offers several solutions to this problem to ensure efficient downtime recovery with minimal disruptions to productivity and reduced demand on internal IT resources.
- Instrument Manager’s High Availability and Disaster Recovery modules work together to ensure if an outage or downtime occurs, your lab can maintain seamless operations and recover quickly with reliable data backup and minimal demands placed on IT.
- Our LIS Downtime Support Service enables you to perform tests even when downtime occurs, and to achieve effortless lab reconciliation post LIS downtime.
- Lab GPS™ empowers laboratorians to optimize lab uptime and reduce IT resource needs through an all-in-one connectivity monitoring, alert, and troubleshooting app.
CAPABILITIES
One Powerful Foundation for Your Entire Lab Enterprise
- Vendor-neutral lab connectivity.
Connect to virtually any lab instrument, LIS, or EMR/EHR regardless of manufacturer or discipline.
- Unlimited scalability.
Support thousands of instruments, dozens of LISs, and multiple lab sites through Instrument Manager middleware.
- All lab disciplines. One platform.
Integrate all disciplines in your lab with one platform for streamlined operations and consistent clinical management.
- Relief for staffing shortages.
Lab workflow automation with AV rates up to 95% free up valuable staffing hours that can be used for other areas of lab operations.
- User-defined lab roles.
Assign different staffing permissions by role to monitor and manage tests by discipline or instrument.
- Real-time KPI tracking.
Monitor and act on critical KPIs to optimize lab performance through IM’s integrated Laboratory Intelligence module.
- Efficient upgradability.
Upgrade your lab with new instrumentation when the time comes without needing to disrupt your entire system.
- Optimized lab uptime.
Integrated lab uptime solutions such as High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Lab GPS™ expedite downtime recovery.
- Long-term cost savings.
Switch out instruments and shop from a variety of instrumentation vendors without having to repurchase interfaces or connections.
CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY
Increasing Productivity and Efficiency in a Cerner Lab
Data Innovations worked with a Cerner lab in 2025 to expand their AV workflows and achieved the following results:*
- A new AV workflow for Urinalysis is saving the lab 4-5 hours of work per day.
- An enhanced AV workflow for Coagulation quadrupled the rate of autoverification while saving the staff 1-2 hours of work per day.
- DI enhancements to a Cerner driver automated an order intake process that previously required manually scanning of every sample.
*Results reported to Data Innovations by Columbus VA Medical Center.
