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Sunquest Information Systems, Inc. is a leading company in laboratory and diagnostic information solutions with more than 1,400 hospitals and commercial laboratories using its solutions worldwide.〔(Sunquest and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Expand Long-Time Partnership )〕 Sunquest introduced the concept of the Five Rights of Laboratory Testing(tm),〔http://www.sunquestinfo.com/Solutions/Pages/FiveRightsofLaboratoryTesting.aspx〕〔http://www.darkdaily.com/ebriefings/five-rights-of-laboratory-testing〕 to establish the importance of the laboratory in healthcare. In 2007, Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm in San Francisco, completed a full buyout of the company.〔 Roper Technologies acquired Sunquest in 2012.〔(Roper Industries to Buy Sunquest Information Systems for $1.4 Billion )〕 ==Products== Sunquest markets various healthcare information solutions related to the diagnostic laboratory. Their customers are in the field of laboratory medicine and include such healthcare providers as Henry Ford Health System,〔http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080122006126&newsLang=en〕 The Cleveland Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center,〔 Geisinger Health System,〔http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS208083+03-Feb-2009+BW20090203〕 Public Health Authority (Bahamas),〔http://www.healthnewsdirect.com/?p=436〕 Cancer Treatment Centers of America,〔http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS124359+16-Feb-2009+BW20090216〕 Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Department of Health and Medical Services 〔http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidZAWYA20090119060638/Sunquest%20Demonstrates%20Latest%20Laboratory%20Information%20System,%20Anatomic%20Pathology%20Software,%20and%20Business%20Management%20Solutions%20at%20Arab%20Health%20Conference%20/〕 in the United Arab Emirates. Sunquest offers a range of diagnostic laboratory information systems (LIS). In addition to providing services for general laboratory, the company addresses the need for managing workflow in the specialty areas of microbiology, blood bank, and pathology as well as sub-specialties of virology, molecular diagnostics, cytogenetics. The suite includes business solutions as well, to provide the laboratory and hospital management teams with actionable data (KPIs) to manage laboratory performance, adjust staff schedules, and justify changes in the list of tests that are offered by the laboratory. The Sunquest portfolio includes Collection and Transfusion Manager. These barcode point of care (BPOC) solutions ensure that lab specimens are not confused and that blood units are transfused to the patients for which they are intended. Combined with the Blood Bank system, they form a Closed Loop Transfusion Management System(tm). Hospitals implementing the system report specimen identification errors reduce to zero while bringing significant workflow efficiencies for laboratory and nursing personnel.〔http://health-care-it.advanceweb.com/editorial/content/editorial.aspx?cc=194637〕〔http://www.mlo-online.com/articles/0808/0808education.pdf〕 Sunquest purchased the Outreach Advantage(r) suite from Pathology Associates Medical Laboratory (PAML) in January 2009.〔http://www.g2reports.com/issues/news/news/breakingnews/441-1.html〕 Outreach Advantage was the second major acquisition to be completed during the first full year following Sunquest’s re-emergence as an independent, privately owned company. The first, in November 2008,〔http://topnews.us/content/239-sunquest-information-completes-acquisition-uk-based-anglia-healthcare〕 brought the Sunquest ICE (Integrated Clinical Environment) solution set to the company’s portfolio. ICE enables communication with all installed Patient administration systems (PASs), Laboratory information management systems (LIMSs) and RISs. Both product suites facilitate high levels of connectivity between hospitals and community physicians and patients. In the United Kingdom, ICE is used in over 90 acute national Trusts to meet ordering and reporting requirements.〔http://www.patientsafetycongress.co.uk/page.cfm/action=Exhib/ExhibID=00042〕〔http://www.worcestershirehealth.nhs.uk/npfit/anglia_OCS/default.asp〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sunquest Information Systems」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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