Intelligent laboratory management. Delivered by cobas IT middleware

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1 Intelligent laboratory management Delivered by cobas IT middleware

2 The pressure to provide rapid, accurate, auditable, diagnostic results continues to grow as demands, from many directions, are placed on laboratories worldwide: Patients increasingly use the internet to research their symptoms and diseases. They are not afraid of suggesting or demanding tests from clinicians. Clinicians want to deliver the best patient diagnosis and treatment using the widest, most accurate suite of diagnostic tools. Executives and senior managers strive to minimise risk by ensuring that results, and details of how they were generated, are part of a patient audit trail. To satisfy these demands, your laboratories contain a wide variety of complex equipment, often from more than one diagnostic supplier. And, many have multiple laboratory sites and multiple LIS (laboratory information systems). But, at the same time as delivering fast, reliable, and accurately recorded in-vitro-diagnostic results, laboratories face demands for cost savings and manpower efficiencies. At times the task may seem overwhelming. We have the answer.

3 cobas IT middleware Delivering workflow and quality improvements Easily accessible management information Effective use of resources Improved quality performance Intelligent laboratory management More efficient workflows Developed and tested with laboratory professionals, cobas IT middleware gives you real-time overview allowing simple management of your laboratory environment and processes. It is a software application that is easy to navigate and intuitive to use. We designed it that way to make your life easier to save time and effort. Microsoft agrees with us. The user interface that cobas IT middleware uses won the 2011 Microsoft Switzerland Technology Innovation Awards. With a rule engine and user profiles that can be customised to match your needs, cobas IT middleware allows easy navigation and control of your laboratory environment. cobas IT middleware connects: Multiple laboratory/networked sites Roche and other manufacturers instruments/ software Multiple LIS systems With cobas IT middleware, we re simply putting you in control so that you can deliver workflow and quality improvements.

4 cobas IT middleware provides you with a level of control that allows the most effective use of people and equipment, enabling you to deliver a streamlined, productive laboratory service.

5 More effective use of your resources For a streamlined, productive service Single common platform simplifies management and enhances productivity. cobas IT middleware allows you to proactively manage your laboratory instruments and the people that use them, in real-time from a single, web-based, platform. You make the rules. You can set personal levels of accessibility so that lab team members can only do, or see, what you want them to. People Intelligent lab management Time Easy and intuitive. The award-winning graphical user interface (GUI), is easy and intuitive to use. Administrators can customise the task-orientated GUI, ensuring that frequently used data is readily at their fingertips. Equipment Simple to learn for maximum productivity. It s quick and easy to learn, so continuity of your laboratory service during installation is assured. With just one web-based application and less time spent training on multiple systems, more time can be spent on important tasks. Also, if it is necessary to relocate staff, there is no new software to learn. Your productivity is enhanced. Multiple sites and equipment. Even complex laboratory networks are made easier to manage with the graphical task bar display. This can be configured to show specific lab, location or instrument grouping. Saving time and reducing duplication of effort. No matter what connected instrument or location, all activity regarding each sample is saved in one place. This significantly reduces the number of steps involved when undertaking everyday tasks, saves time and reduces duplication of effort. For example: The patient data and quality control information can be easily viewed on one screen and cross referenced. So time is saved. Less time is spent switching through multiple screens and irrelevant information to find the answers needed. We call this intelligent lab management.

6 Efficient workflows for today and the future Improving productivity and quality cobas IT middleware is the intelligent lab management, workflow optimisation, solution for your immediate and long term needs. Connectivity is key to efficient workflows. Modern laboratory networks are equipped with a wide range of instrumentation. With the cobas IT middleware we bring this instrumentation together in one manageable software application. We ve launched cobas IT middleware with drivers for Roche instruments and a large number of non-roche instruments, including hematology and coagulation. And the list continues to grow. Improving turnaround times through real-time overview. Through the cobas IT middleware central overview screen, pending tasks can be viewed and actively managed, in real-time. At any point in time, using the intuitive GUI with visual aids, authorised team members can take immediate control: prioritising tests, differentiating the urgency defining sample routing masking tests and instruments identifying instrument errors and communication interruptions addressing quality issues before they impact on turnaround times and delivering critical test results to the clinician. There is no duplication of effort, assessment of individual instrument performance or unnecessary re-runs. Turnaround times improve.

7 cobas IT middleware is a fast and reliable IT connectivity solution that lets you easily manage your team, your instruments and performance. Multiple LIS cobas IT middleware Multiple sites Multiple instruments/software EMERGENCY Faster results processing and validation. With a powerful, customisable rule engine at its heart, cobas IT middleware allows you to write new rules easily with the graphical interface. With enhanced use of auto-validation reducing the lab team s involvement in results interpretation or processing there are two important consequences; Validated results can be delivered to clinicians automatically and rapidly Team expertise can focus on out-of-specification results, and further support clinicians in their treatment decisions to enhance patient outcomes Flexibility and scalability. We have involved laboratory professionals in the development of cobas IT middleware to ensure that the application delivers what is needed now, and in the future. Whether your laboratory scales up or down, cobas IT middleware is flexible. It can accommodate change. Simply. cobas IT middleware provides proactive, real-time management of workflows for efficiency improvements, now and in the future.

8 Driving laboratory quality Ensuring compliant, auditable results cobas IT middleware is a software application that supports, and helps you to improve, your quality processes. cobas IT middleware enables faster result processing and validation. This helps to improve quality by reducing the risk of human error in results interpretation and reporting. Quality control and reporting assist compliance. With cobas IT middleware, QC rules can be configured easily at test and instrument level. Results and statistics can be viewed as Levey-Jennings charts. Access to the information you need to demonstrate compliance is easy and fast. Traceability. No matter how many instruments are connected, or where they are located, cobas IT middleware generates a unique audit trail for each sample. You do not have to compile the audit trail from multiple sources the sample and patient results are inextricably linked within cobas IT middleware. This enhances patient safety, saves you time and instills confidence in your laboratory and results. Lab credibility and compliance. With cobas IT middleware real-time overviews enhance your laboratory s credibility by helping you to instantly address quality issues to ensure compliance with your quality systems. Reassuring clinicians and your management. By using cobas IT middleware, with customisable user profiles and auto-log out, you ensure compliance. Your team members have easy access to the tools needed to ensure accurate, recorded, results.

9 As a powerful laboratory management and data-mining tool, cobas IT middleware has no equal. Driving laboratory quality Traceability Compliance Less errors Reproducible results Patient audit trail Workplace-centric user rights Rule engine Quality control management

10 Management information and control Decision making to drive laboratory improvements cobas IT middleware makes reporting easier. It consolidates data from all connected diagnostic instrumentation, saving time and effort. Data is at your fingertips, on one platform, and you are in control of management information that will enable you to make decisions to drive laboratory improvements. With powerful and flexible data-mining capabilities, cobas IT middleware allows you to securely, and simply, interrogate data*. Consolidation of data. Laboratory professionals told us that accessing multiple instruments to gain management statistics and information was a time consuming and, often frustrating, exercise. When you need statistics and reports to drive or measure improvements, or to support decisions, cobas IT middleware is the only platform you need. Data Reports Information From sample to results Identifying the facts Driving the improvements Enables decision making to drive laboratory improvements Traceability of the sample history and location Archive management Life-long QC storage Traceability of configuration changes Workplace-based reports System overview for lab monitoring Real-time notifications Task oriented user interface Reduce the delay of result availability Reproducible outputs of sample validation Workflow optimization across the lab organization * data mining module due for release 2013/14

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12 For technical specifications and additional information please see the enclosed datasheets. To arrange a meeting or demonstration to learn how cobas IT middleware can deliver efficiencies in your laboratory, please contact your local Roche representative COBAS and LIFE NEEDS ANSWERS are trademarks of Roche. Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries Roche Roche Diagnostics International Ltd. CH-6343 Rotkreuz Switzerland