LabTrak is a modular pathology laboratory system that has been designed to integrate with a complete hospital management system, or to function as a self-contained, fully featured package for the modern dynamic pathology practice.

The design emphasis of LabTrak has centred on full functionality and flexibility, offering a diverse range of display capabilities that fully exploits the current Microsoft Windows / Workgroups workplace.

Apart from providing standard pathology practice requirements, the functionality of LabTrak extends to the exporting of information. Data and information can be conveyed to ODBC-compliant products and ASCII transfer of reports is possible to most PC software packages. The automatic faxing of results, the ability to access the system remotely, accessing lab result inquiries via the Internet, and the scanning of source documents will provide a professional edge for the expanding practice.

The basis of any successful system is the efficient and comprehensive collection of patient data. This process is initiated by patient registration and concludes with result reporting. All patient and specimen data, whether it is collection, testing, service charges, clinical history, or financial data is maintained on-line. This data is then used by the laboratory to support retrospective analysis and strategic planning.

Data remains as data until it can be put to effective use. It then becomes information. LabTrak provides you with information relating to the individual patient, the referring doctor and the collection Centre, ward, or hospital location.

The LabTrak modules provide the framework for a comprehensive database for each patient and their respective specimen(s). All data required to provide a complete, accurate, and speedy registration is entered on-line. Consequently, all enquiries to the database produce current information.

LabTrak is the next generation healthcare product from Trak Systems. LabTrak takes off where others leave off. It includes full functionality plus significant enhancements in design and capability.

More Portable - The LabTrak system is an open systems product that is able to sit on a diverse choice of platforms, from a PC to a mainframe and on a range of operating systems including Windows 98, NT, and UNIX. Open systems inherently bring benefits in the choice of leading edge hardware. LabTrak software has been designed to exploit client/server technology. Users can have LabTrak run on PC's or large UNIX boxes; the choice is theirs. LabTrak operates equally on LANs and WANs.

More Comprehensive - LabTrak has a full range of application modules that allows users to begin with a modest implementation through to a full-scale as-automated-as-you-like facility.

More Friendly - LabTrak has a graphical user interface (GUI). Users can have an easy-to-use system familiar to anyone who can use Windows on a PC. Users have the choice of using the mouse, the keyboard, or both, therefore enabling the retrieval of information using familiar office productivity tools that support the industry-standard interface.

Full text editing in all screen displays allows the user total flexibility. Help text on all data entry screens and fields provides users with clear, concise instructions relating to that field. The find function on all coded data prompts allows users to access predefined codes eliminating the need to commit an extensive list to memory or having a cumbersome hard copy at hand.
More Savings - LabTrak requires less processor, memory, and disk resources. The database will be more efficient, supporting variable length records-an important asset in clinical healthcare systems. The total implementation cost of LabTrak is lower than others on the market.

The database engine for TrakCare is Caché, the post-relational database from InterSystems. Caché is so reliable it is the de facto standard database for hospital applications around the world.

Caché is optimized for the rapid development and deployment of high-performance, massively scalable Web applications. Object technology offers rapid application development, and Caché Objects support all the popular Web technologies including Java, ActiveX, C++, XML, and CORBA. Caché's multidimensional data model facilitates the storage and rapid access of complex data types such as still and video images and sound that make up TrakCare's Electronic Patient Record. Caché gives TrakCare unprecedented performance and scalability. Applications built on Caché can run up to twenty times faster than those built upon the relational model, and can scale to enormous proportions. The largest integrated client/server system in the world-over 30,000 users-runs at a prestigious medical complex outside Boston, Massachusetts.

Standard Features
LabTrak and the range of associated Trak sub-systems are fully table-driven. This allows you the flexibility of defining the tables that control the flow and the integrity of the data in the system.
LabTrak is not restricted to any character set, handling Korean or Thai as easily as Spanish or English. It supports any language the client and server computers support. As language is user-definable, the user can enter translations into the system. Depending upon the language defined in the user table, LabTrak responds with the prompts translated in that defined language.

Security
Additionally, users can control access to menus and functions for each user or group of users. Full system security is definable by user or test set. Not all users require access to all functions. A restriction set in place mean that staff authorized to access only certain functions is restricted to those functions. Doctors in remote sites can also be restricted to viewing and printing only their patients' results via Web browser.

LabTrak and the accompanying range of supporting sub-systems place significant emphasis on security. Updating the patient's clinical record requires personal identification numbers (PINs) or passwords.

Changes to key data on patient records are audited and a record of all transactions including reports printed and reprinted, is available by date and time.