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What is Orchard Harvest LIMS?
Orchard Software in Indiana offers Orchard Harvest LIMS, a laboratory information management system dedicated to providing operational support and streamlining with rules-based decisioning, data analytics and business intelligence, and clear interfaces.
Harvest LIMS. Great for small and starter labs
Flexible, Powerful, Archaic
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What is Orchard Harvest LIMS?
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Orchard and Harvest by Orchard Software offer a range of use cases for healthcare organizations. Users of Orchard can take advantage of the platform's ability to print weekly reports for benchmarking their workload and revenue. This feature enables organizations to track their progress and identify areas for improvement.
For emergency rooms, Harvest enables users to track and manage STAT times in the Emergency Room, with the ability to upload data into Excel formats for easy report building. Additionally, Harvest can be linked to other reporting systems for lab results, providing seamless integration of data across platforms.
Harvest is used by the entire organization to control and connect patient results, instruments, reference labs, doctors, and EHR. Phlebotomists, lab techs, and med techs use Harvest in their daily activities for collecting and working with patient samples. By eliminating the need for manual entry of results from instruments, Harvest improves efficiency in lab processes.
Results from Harvest are sent to providers via HL7 messages, fax, or email, ensuring effective delivery of critical information. PCR labs rely on Harvest as the main LIS and database for lab results and information. It helps labs keep up with results, patients, and samples.
Harvest serves as a good starter LIS for new and starter labs, while larger labs may consider upgrading to Sequoia, Orchard's larger LIS system. Overall, Orchard's products offer valuable features that help healthcare organizations streamline operations and improve communication with providers while meeting the specific needs of different types of labs.
Great and Customizable Interface: Several users have found the interface of the LIS Laboratory Information System to be excellent and highly customizable.
Easy Navigation and Customization: Many reviewers have praised the easy navigation of the test dictionaries and the system's ability to be customized according to their lab's specific needs. This flexibility is particularly valuable for small rural labs where new employees can quickly learn and use the system efficiently.
Efficient Data Entry and Retrieval: Users have highlighted the ease of entering and pulling data from the system as a significant advantage. This capability is crucial for efficient lab operations, allowing staff to quickly access necessary information.
Difficult to Find Functions: Some users have found certain functions in the software difficult to locate as they are hidden in menus. This has led to frustration and inefficiency in their workflow.
Nightly Downtime: Many reviewers consider the nightly downtime required by the system to be a major inconvenience and a turn-around time killer. They find it unacceptable that they cannot access the software during this period, which hinders their productivity.
Outdated Software: Multiple users believe that compared to current systems in the market, the software is outdated and not up to date. They express dissatisfaction with its lack of modern features and functionalities.
Reviews
(1-1 of 1)Flexible, Powerful, Archaic
- Rules Engine - We use rules to customize what happens when entering orders, evaluating results, or sending results. We are also able to run them based on location.
- Interfaces - It is connected to our EHR and reference lab. This allow us to send and receive results, demographics, billing, ect easily and to and from one another.
- Advanced Configuration Options - I love to hate them. While you can do a lot in the settings, there is a wall of text that you can use to customize even more how Harvest behaves and does.
- Event Logs - When something goes wrong it does a good job to logging what happened.
- User Interface - The software is like 25 years old, and it feels like it. They have added some buttons and links to try to make it easier, but it's not as flashy as the SaaS applications that are being built these days. It feels like there isn't a lot of time spent on refining the features, just adding more to it.
- Archaic Architecture - The application use 4D for the database. This means that you can't use SQL for queries, latency is a huge issue and there isn't a hosted option. You have to have your own in-house server to run the server application.
- Client is an Application - We have workstations dedicated to managing the interfaces. These workstations have to run the application as a program and can not run them as a service. This means that if you want to apply Windows updates it required manually closing and re-launching the application.
- Data Mining - There are some basic reports, but they do not really allow you to build complex reports about the patients or work being performed.
I would say that it is not as great for locations that have multiple remote locations without great internet. Because of the underlying technologies, latency between client and server can cause havoc.
- The support provided by Orchard Software for Harvest allows me to not have to worry as much about the system. I can grant them access to my system and trust them to work on the issue while I work on other issues.
- The automation saves a lot of time for those in the lab. There have been a few times that the lab has been down for a couple of hours and having to catch up and enter the results from the instruments manually can take the rest of the day.