SCC Soft Computer® Celebrates National Health IT Week

September 16, 2013

(Clearwater, FL) September 16—SCC Soft Computer (SCC) is proud to announce its participation in National Health Information Technology (NHIT) Week, taking place across the country September 16 – 20, 2013. NHIT Week marks the important role health information technology plays in improving healthcare delivery in America. As a corporate partner of the 8th annual event, SCC proudly supports the value of health IT and the role it plays towards the quality of healthcare delivery, increasing patient safety, and decreasing medical errors.

As one of the leading and most widely recognized providers of laboratory and genetics information management systems for the Healthcare IT industry, SCC offers full suites of Web-enabled clinical information management system solutions that address the informatics needs of today’s medical enterprise. Dedicated to the advancement of health IT and meeting the highest standards in quality, SCC is at the forefront of laboratory, genetics, blood services, and outreach information systems software development and offers full suites of Web-enabled laboratory and genetics information management system solutions. Since 1979, SCC Soft Computer has designed, developed, and delivered powerful integrated clinical information management solutions to hospitals, large IDNs (integrated delivery networks), and laboratories. SCC’s flagship SoftLab® LIS fully accommodates EMR integration via HL7 or Web Services to meet Meaningful Use initiatives, a key topic for this year’s NHIT Week.

Health IT like SoftID®, SCC’s electronic positive patient and specimen identification solution, helps eliminate identification errors, enhance patient safety, reduce bottlenecks, and improve turnaround time. This allows phlebotomists to feel more confident knowing that they’re collecting specimens for the correct test and the correct patient, and patients feel safer with the assurance that their specimens will be handled properly. SoftID enables users to obtain real-time patient orders and avoid unnecessary specimen collection – resulting in fewer needle sticks for patients.

SCC’s healthcare information management system solutions can improve all areas of the laboratory with a full range of product suites for laboratory (SoftLab®, SoftMic®, SoftPath®), blood services (SoftBank®, SoftDonor®), outreach (SoftWebplus™, SoftA/R®, SoftCompliance®, SoftExpressplus™), and genetics (SoftCytogenetics®, SoftMolecular®, SoftFlowCytometry®, SoftHLA®, SoftBiochemistry®, SoftPathDx®).


About National Health Information Technology Week

The Eighth Annual National Health IT Week is a collaborative forum where public and private healthcare constituents will work in partnership to educate industry and policy stakeholders on the value of health IT to the U.S. healthcare system. Held September 16-20, 2013, NHIT Week is an opportunity for the health IT community to come together under one umbrella to raise awareness of the cost savings and improved healthcare delivery benefits of health IT. For more information, please visit www.healthitweek.org.

About SCC Soft Computer

Considered the largest LIS software production house in the world – with a workforce of nearly 1,700 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. SCC’s SoftLab 4.0.3, 4.0.4, and 4.0.6 are 2011/2012 compliant and certified as EHR Modules by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an ONC-ATCB (Office of the National Coordinator - Authorized Testing and Certification Body), in accordance with the applicable Hospital certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). For full certification details, please visit:
• For SoftLab 4.0.3: https://www.cchit.org/show-onc-cert?certid=a055000000JH4PhAAL
• For SoftLab 4.0.4: https://www.cchit.org/show-onc-cert?certid=a015000000ezyq1AAA
• For SoftLab 4.0.6: https://www.cchit.org/show-onc-cert?certid=a015000000f1NQSAA2

SCC has been ranked the Number 1 Laboratory Blood Bank application in the Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Services report in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. SoftBank, SCC’s blood bank and transfusion service management system, has been recognized as the category leader in blood bank information management system solutions for four consecutive years. SCC was also ranked the Number 1 Laboratory application for Small (1-200 beds) Hospitals in the 2011 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Services report. SoftLab, SCC's flagship laboratory information system, was recognized as the category leader in laboratory information management system solutions. SCC’s SoftPath® anatomic pathology and cytology information system is ranked the Number 2 Pathology application in the 2012 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Services report. (www.KLASreasearch.com) SCC is one of the few LIS vendors who can say their systems work as well in a community hospital as they do in a high-volume healthcare system. Their robust, integrated healthcare information systems dramatically increase productivity in the laboratory enabling hospitals of all sizes to do more in less time with fewer FTEs.

SCC has also been recognized over the years for its commitment to workforce training and professional development. SCC placed 3rd in the 2009 ASTD BEST Awards, and received two 2010 ASTD/ISPI OPAL Awards for Excellence in Team Success and Customer Satisfaction and the 2009 ASTD/ISPI OPAL Award for Excellence in Leadership Development. The company 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 only healthcare IT firm to achieve this feat. SCC was inducted into the Training Top 10 Hall of Fame February 2012, along with computer software giant, Microsoft Corporation (visit www.trainingmag.com for more information).
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