The right information

at the right time

laboratory information system

TD-Synergy is a blend of technologies dedicated to managing

laboratory information. It is highly scalable, and serves organizations
ranging from small single-discipline laboratories to large multiple-site
and multidisciplinary institutions.

The TD-Synergy suite offers a wide range of
dedicated modules to serve the specific needs of
all laboratory disciplines.
A comprehensive solution: From creating test
requests to producing and reporting results, it
provides comprehensive data and organizational
management capabilities, allowing laboratories to
improve patient safety and efficiency by:
• automating workflows
• reducing turnaround time
• improving traceability
TD-Synergy converts your data into relevant,
timely, accurate information. It offers the latest
innovations in terms of flexibility and
ergonomics, and uses familiar and intuitive
techniques to help you navigate your way
around the application.
Multi-site & multi-lab feature, a major feature:
The ability to manage a group of laboratories of
different disciplines in different locations with a
single Laboratory Information System is a key
benefit of TD-Synergy.

TD-Synergy
suite
Manage your
laboratory
Real-time processes and rule-based engine
For actions relating to a predetermined range of conditions,
TD-Synergy has a real-time rule-based engine that operates at
every stage in the process, from order entry to result reporting.
Any authorized user can define rules easily using logical Boolean
expressions. All conditions regarding patients, specimens, test
requests or test results can trigger multiple actions, such as:
• Addition/deletion of tests
• Automatic comment on results
• Automatic or mandatory review
• Insertion of results in a list to be communicated by telephone
• Production of additional copies of result reports
The rule-based system of TD-Synergy helps you to comply with
the requirements of quality certification organizations such as
the College of American Pathologists and the Clinical &
Laboratory Standards Institute, who require that any certified
laboratory can prove that auto-verification rules have been
validated and checked before being used for lab production.
One of the 41 rules recommended by the Hematology Consensus Group.
Sample management
TD-Synergy offers sample management features that greatly
improve the way in which samples are handled in the lab:
• Sample routing
• Sample storage
• Sample retrieval
These features limit the time spent by technicians looking for
samples that have not been transmitted or stored in the right
place. They also make it quicker to check the availability of a
sample for additional tests.
• Easy-to-use graphical user interface
• Minimal user training required
The laboratory contributes more than 80% of
objective data to the clinical records*.
*Rodney Forsman, Clinical Laboratory News, July 2004.
Clinical review
The need for clinical review can be limited to
exceptional cases, because all results are critically
reviewed in real time by the rule-based engine. This
automatic review process confers a number of advantages,
without compromising the quality of information supplied:
• Consultants/clinical experts can focus on a limited
number of requests demanding their expertise, thus
optimizing their time
• Results are available faster for distribution
• Turnaround time is improved
Flexible and customizable dictionaries
You can use your custom dictionaries at all stages of the
laboratory workflow, for example:
• Collecting and identifying specimens
• Checking request redundancy
• Dispatching work
• Checking results
• Generating and communicating reports
Multiple site configuration, a major feature
You can manage a group of laboratories of different disciplines,
located in different sites, with a single TD-Synergy Laboratory
Information System.
This ability to share a common consolidated patient file across
several laboratories from any client workstation, without
compromising patient data confidentiality, is a key benefit,
because it allows you to optimize the allocation of test equipment
and human resources across your whole group of laboratories,
thus saving on associated maintenance costs:
• Reduction in hardware and associated maintenance costs
• Easier system configuration
• Much simpler integration with the Hospital Information
System (HIS)
• Faster, simpler software upgrades
• Improves laboratory efficiency
and patient safety
 Improve your
performance
Optimizing response time
Thanks to an intelligent choice of technology and architecture,
TD-Synergy provides the answer to a constant cause of concern:
response times.
Real-time production processes are handled by a production
database, designed to guarantee response times of under 1
second even during peaks of activity.
Management processes such as statistics, traceability, and long-
term analysis are handled by a management database, which
can process large amounts of data efficiently. This management
database stores data in such a way as to offer optimum
flexibility and accessibility of information.
Security of data
and patient privacy
HIPAA compliancy
TD-Synergy complies with HIPAA regulations on the
security of health data, and keeps strict controls on user-
rights management and patient privacy. It provides:
• Extensive user-access control, ensuring that users can
access only the information they need
• Capability to audit actions on results
• Standard communication protocols
A system architecture designed to meet
your needs for flexibility and efficiency.
Communication and interoperability
Interoperability is the key factor for integration in healthcare
organizations. TD-Synergy supports a wide range of
international standard communication protocols, such as HL7
and ASTM, allowing it to interface with:
• Patient administration systems
• Online prescription systems
• Results servers or patient medical records
• Invoicing systems
The TD-Synergy communication engine facilitates the interface
with any existing instruments, HIS or healthcare applications,
contributing to a quick deployment of the LIS solution.
Strict control of
information access
and usage.
Comprehensive traceability
The TD-Synergy software provides an audit trail, which is a
chronological record of all events occurring in the system.
This allows you to review the sequence of events that have
had some impact on the test request information, and find out
when, where and by whom each action or result query was
performed.
• Highly scalable
(multiple disciplines and multiple sites)
 Main features

TD-Synergy main features Technical overview

• Instrument interfaces and result acquisition TD-Synergy comprises a production database and a
• Interfaces with numerous different analyzer types management database, which provide optimal resilience
and consistent response times for all configurations and
• Sophisticated user-rights management workloads.
• Test request creation
• A large range of UNIX® servers can be used to
• Specimen collection and identification
support the production database.
• Sample and request dispatching
• The archive database (Oracle or SQL) can run on either
• Sample storage, routing and tracking
UNIX or Windows® servers.
• Technical and clinical review of results
• Real-time expert rule system • Client PCs running on the Windows operating system
offer a modern graphical user interface.
• Consolidation and distribution of results
• Confidentiality of consolidated results for review and • Standard (HL7, ASTM) or customized communication
display protocols for medical data can be used to interface with
any LIS software.
• Electronic result reporting (secured email, fax)

• Quality Control
• Customizable real-time alert

• Epidemiology
• Billing and statistics management
• Comprehensive and chronological audit trail
• Quality document management
• Customization of dictionaries and tables
• Multi-site and Multi-lab management capabilities

Health Informatics for the Laboratory

Disciplines served
Designed for Patient Safety
• Clinical chemistry

• Immunology

• Hematology

• Microbiology

• Serology

• Virology

• Histology/Cytology

• Blood Banking

• Tissue typing

• Molecular biology

• Genetics

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