SCC Soft Computer Exhibits at Pathology Informatics 2011

September 27, 2011

Clearwater, FL – SCC Soft Computer will be exhibiting at Pathology Informatics 2011, October 4 – 7, 2011, at the Pittsburgh Wyndham Grand in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

SCC Soft Computer is setting the standard for advanced, integrated anatomic pathology information management systems. SCC's SoftPath®— is the result of intensive, strategic development and provides tools designed to enhance patient care and improve turnaround time. SoftPath’s flexibility enables you to create a workflow that suits your environment. The result is faster, more comprehensive management reports, easier data search and retrieval, and enhanced quality assurance, regardless of the size of the caseload.

SCC Soft Computer can also improve other areas of your laboratory with our full range of product suites for laboratory (SoftLab®, SoftMic®, SoftPath®), blood services (SoftBank®, SoftDonor®), outreach (SoftWebplus™, SoftA/R®, SoftCompliance®, SoftExpressplus™), genetics (SoftCytogenetics®, SoftMolecular®, SoftFlowCytometry®, SoftHLA®, SoftPathDx®, SoftBiochemistry®), radiology (SoftRad® RIS), and pharmacy (SoftRx® Inpatient / Outpatient).

Stop by and visit SCC Soft Computer during Pathology Informatics 2011 for a demonstration of SoftPath, the total solution for anatomic pathology laboratories, and learn about its exciting new developments and integration with SCC’s Genetics Information Systems Suite™. To schedule a demonstration, please contact Ellie Vahman, (727) 789-0100, extension 4052, or ellie@softcomputer.com.

About Pathology Informatics

The Association for Pathology Informatics (API) was founded in 2000 by a group of pathologists interested in defining pathology informatics as a clinical subspecialty within pathology by way of education. API continues to support this educational mission by:

o Sponsoring a national educational meeting,
o Providing educational content to other Pathology meetings (e.g. United States & Canadian Academy of Pathology annual meeting),
o Developing and educating members about standards for reporting, transferring, storing and merging pathology related information,
o Developing an independent, not-for-profit, open access peer-reviewed electronic academic journal, Journal of Pathology Informatics (JPI), which published the first quarterly edition in March, 2010. JPI is available for viewing at http://jpathinformatics.org. JPI is indexed in PubMed.
o Promoting education of residents and practicing pathologists in informatics and technology that enhances the field of laboratory medicine.

API previously co-sponsored two major national meetings each year: Advancing Practice, Instruction and Innovation through Informatics (APIII) and Lab InfoTech Summit. APIII was hosted and organized by the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine under the direction of Dr. Michael Becich. Lab InfoTech Summit was hosted and organized by the Pathology Education Consortium under the direction of Dr. Bruce Friedman. API has also sponsored or conducted numerous educational workshops in conjunction with the College of American Pathologists, ASIP, and AMP. API has sponsored pathology resident travel awards to the APIII and Lab InfoTech Summit meetings in order to foster interest in pathology informatics as a discipline among pathology trainees. API has published a comprehensive set of learning objectives and skill sets for training in Pathology Informatics for pathology residents to encourage the integration of a high quality informatics experience within pathology residency programs (Henricks et al, Arch Pathol Lab Med 2003; 127: 1009-1018).

API has also worked to create data standards and educate members about such standards, relating to both pathology research and service pathology to encourage effective reporting and integration of pathology data. API co-sponsored four workshops along with the National Cancer Institutes, to develop an open access, tissue microarray data exchange specification (Berman et al, BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 2003, 3:5. Available at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/3/5). The API Laboratory Digital Imaging Project (LDIP) was initiated in 2004 as a forum for collaboration between the academic, research, and biotech communities for the development of industry standards for pathology image and data interchange to improve the quality of research in pathology and patient care.

Since September, 2010, API is a co-sponsor of the merged APIII and Lab InfoTech Summit, creating a single national pathology informatics meeting, Pathology Informatics 2011 (see http://www.pathinformatics.pitt.edu/.) Pathology Informatics 2011 (PI-2011) is the product of more than 40 cumulative years of experience in providing continuing medical education in the area of pathology informatics. Its predecessor conferences were: (1) AIMCL, held in Ann Arbor from 1983 to 2003; (2) APIII held in Pittsburgh from 1996 to 2009; and (3) Lab InfoTech Summit from 2004 to 2009. A decision was made in 2010 to merge these events into a single mega-event, bringing together their directors and staffs under the sponsorship of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, and the Association for Pathology Informatics, API. This first merged conference, Pathology Informatics 2010 was held in Boston, Massachusetts in September 2010.

About SCC Soft Computer

SCC is at the forefront of laboratory, genetics, blood services, outreach, pharmacy, and radiology information systems software development and offers full suites of Web-enabled clinical information management system solutions. Since 1979, SCC Soft Computer has been meeting the needs of the healthcare industry by providing powerful, clinical information management solutions to hospitals, large IDNs (integrated delivery networks), and laboratories.

Considered the largest LIS software production house in the
world – with a workforce of nearly 1600 professionals dedicated to LIS development – SCC has experience in accomplishing complex LIS implementations in large, multisite environments. SCC's flagship product, SoftLab, has been recognized as the market standard for its robust functionality and ease of instrument interfacing, including robotics.

Consistently ranked 1st in the MD Buyline survey, a comprehensive, vendor-independent database used by hospitals and other medical facilities during the capital planning and purchasing process, SCC outranks its competitors in all categories. SCC has also been recognized for its commitment to workforce training and leadership development and has been included in the Training Top 125 nine times in ten years—including four consecutive years in the Training Top 10 and two years in the Training Top 5, the first and only healthcare IT firm to achieve this feat. SCC placed 3rd in the 2009 ASTD BEST Awards, and has received three ASTD/ISPI OPAL Awards for Excellence in Leadership Development, Team Success, and Customer Satisfaction.

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