These addendums to the primary system questionnaire cover system-specific laboratory requirements not common to the laboratory information management system. 
NOTE: These addendums are meant to represent additional user requirement specs unique to the system and not represented in the primary system questionnaire.
1.5 System-specific
| 1.5a.1 General functions
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| a. Does your system include clinical trial management tools? If so, elaborate.
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| b. Does your system provide patient case management and assignment?
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| c. Does your system provide physician, clinic, and contract lab management tools?
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| d. Does your system provide outreach and call list management tools?
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| e. Does your system provide multi-site and multi-lab management tools?
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| f. Does your system provide disease tracking functionality?
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| g. Does your system monitor turnaround time, from test request to clinician review?
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| h. Is your system veterinary compatible?
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| 1.5a.2 Configuration and customization
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| a. Does your system permit users to create templates and worksheets for standardizing analysis pages, patient pages, test ordering pages, and/or the reporting processes?
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| b. Does your system provide flexible and customizable mapping dictionaries for interconversion of different standards and more?
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| c. Does your system support customizable test, panel, and profile libraries?
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| d. Does your system support provisions for correctional facilities?
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| e. Does your system support customization of test pick lists based on specialty utilization?
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| 1.5a.3 Receiving and scheduling
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| a. Does your system allow users to create, manage, and track viewable sample container schemata?
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| b. Does your system feature order entry rules for better managing duplicate orders, rejecting inappropriate tests, identifying inappropriate containers, rerouting tests to outside labs, etc.?
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| c. Does your system automatically split and manage orders requiring multiple testing locations?
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| d. Does your system create and manage administrative documents for genetics testing?
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| e. Does your system allow standing orders and test schedules to be defined for future orders?
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| f. Can your system import and utilize the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS') National and Local Coverage Determinations files?
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| g. Does your system track and manage advance beneficiary notices (ABNs) from CMS as needed?
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| h. Can your system differentiate "investigation use only" and "research use only" tests?
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| 1.5a.4 Analysis and data entry
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| a. Does your system effectively manage complex molecular protocols? Explain.
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| b. Does your system effectively manage genetic testing protocols? Explain.
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| c. Does your system effectively manage histology and cytology protocols? Explain.
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| d. Does your system allow for user-definable and procedure-specific protocols for HIV specimens? Explain.
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| e. Does your system effectively manage biobanking and blood banking activities and the data associated with them? Explain.
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| 1.5a.5 Post-analysis and validation
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| a. Does your system include data mining tools for model learning, evaluation, and usage?
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| b. Does your system report molecular results in both clinical and anatomical pathology environments?
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| c. Does your system provide tools for graphical patient and analyte trend plotting?
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| d. Can your system hold all test results on a specimen with multiple tests ordered on it until all work is completed and a final report is issued?
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| 1.5a.6 Instruments
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| a. No LIS-specific instrument requirements as of yet
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| 1.5a.8 Reporting
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| a. Does your system include a synoptic reporting module?
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| b. Does your system produce specialized reports for microbiology, hematology, assay trend, and/or cardiac risk?
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| c. Does your system produce epidemiology and antibiogram reports?
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| 1.5a.9 Laboratory management
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| a. Does your system include revenue management functionality, including medical necessity checks and profitability analysis?
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| 1.5b.1 Electronic laboratory notebook
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| a. Enter your own unique function here
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| 1.5c.1 Chromatography and scientific data management system
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| a. Enter your own unique function here
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