ARUP LABORATORIES RELEASES ARUP CONSULT® v.3.0

NEW VERSION PROVIDES IMPROVED DIAGNOSTIC SUPPORT TOOL FOR CLINICIANS

ARUP Consult

SALT LAKE CITY, September 15, 2008—ARUP Laboratories, a national medical reference laboratory and a leader in innovative laboratory research and development, announced the release of ARUP Consult® v.3.0—The Physician’s Guide to Laboratory Test Selection and Interpretation. The new release builds upon ARUP Consult’s success as an award-winning diagnostic tool. The new release offers a number of new features and enhancements including expanded diagnostic information, disease-specific update notification, and improved navigation.

"With this release, we have focused our development on easing the burden placed on physicians to stay current on ever-changing laboratory information,” said ARUP's medical director of Informatics, Brian Jackson, MD, MS, who heads the ARUP Consult project. “This physician’s guide concentrates information on nearly 2,000 tests into a concise test selection and interpretation tool that allows users to make informed diagnostic decisions and improve patient care.”

ARUP Consult 3.0 enhancements include:

  • Diagnosis tab: a newly formatted diagnosis section, allowing clinicians to access all diagnostic information in a single location, enabling clinicians to move quickly through the topic without additional clicks or scrolling
  • Collapsible tables: collapsible tables that enable health care professionals to expand or collapse test tables to reduce scrolling
  • Email notification: physicians can subscribe to automatic email notifications to alert them when new information about one or more disease-related topics and/or algorithms is available
  • Condensed guidelines reference section: clinicians can access all relevant types of guidelines, including journals, National Guidelines Center, and scientific organizations, from a single box.

“ARUP Consult’s goal is to assist the clinician with test selection and interpretation,” explained Jackson, “Knowing the right test to order for a specific disease can improve patient care and decrease unnecessary testing and costs.”

ARUP Consult is a tool provided by ARUP Laboratories for all physicians and clinicians at no cost or obligation and is available at www.arupconsult.com or m.arupconsult.com for mobile users.


About ARUP Laboratories

ARUP Laboratories is a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory and an enterprise of the University of Utah and its Department of Pathology. With 2,300 employees, ARUP offers in excess of 2,000 tests and test combinations, ranging from routine screening tests to highly esoteric molecular and genetic assays, for patients throughout the country. ARUP’s clients include more than half of the nation's university teaching hospitals and children's hospitals, as well as multi-hospital groups, major commercial laboratories, group purchasing organizations, military and government facilities, and major clinics. In addition, ARUP is a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development, led by the efforts of the ARUP Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology®.

 

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