Reliable transmission of findings in cytology
The digital transmission of findings often does not yet run smoothly in cytology; the reason for this is often an unreliable EDI system. The laboratories then lose a lot of time resending lost findings to their sending practices. In addition, many software systems only work on Windows PCs and not on macOS.
QuickLIS solves these problems and transfers cytology findings in real time as encrypted LDT files from the laboratory system to the doctors' offices. The practice staff can then manage the findings clearly and download them again if necessary. All files are stored on the server in the laboratory and can no longer be lost! Through the connection to the physician information system of the sender, the findings data are also stored directly here. If questions arise, they can be quickly clarified via chat - saving a lot of time. QuickLIS report transmission can be easily connected to the existing laboratory system without having to completely change your software environment.
With QuickLIS, security comes first: encrypted LDT files meet the highest security standards - comparable to a letter with a seal and certificate. This is far more than an encrypted e-mail or even an FTP client, which in this metaphor would be comparable to a postcard.
Are you interested in a reliable solution for the transmission of your findings? Then try out QuickLIS digital report transmission easily and without obligation! During a trial period of 6 months, you can test our solution with up to ten of your sending practices free of charge and without obligation. There are no costs for you during this time - even if you decide against our solution afterwards. If you are convinced by QuickLIS, you will only pay after the trial period.
You want details? You can find more information on QuickLIS report transmission here. We would also be happy to present our solution to you in a personal meeting. Just contact us. We are looking forward to meeting you.
Done!
One office management assistant, two application developers, three system integrators and two university graduates - this year's graduating class brought us no less than eight freshly graduated specialists, and we wouldn't want to give any of them up again.
Our trainees Esra, Philipp H., Simon, Philipp S., Jan and Ronald have been enriching our team since 2019 and 2020. All trainees have been right in the thick of things right from the start, so they were able to take on responsibility early on and put their knowledge to the test in their first projects of their own. The same applies to Florian and Johannes, who successfully completed their studies in computer science and data science in medicine this year. Both came to us as internship students and wrote their bachelor theses here.
With their concentrated expertise, the now fully trained employees enrich our team. In addition, they are, above all, valuable colleagues whom we would not want to miss in our team. We are all the more pleased that each and every one of them will stay with us to continue actively shaping the future of our company.
At this point, congratulations to all graduates. After the long time of preparation, cramming and writing, you can be justifiably proud of yourselves. We certainly are.
We are also keeping our fingers crossed for our two dual students Kai and Caspar, who are currently in the final stages of their bachelor thesis.
By the way: We are looking for new talent again. So if you are interested in IT in the medical industry and one or the other adventure with our team: there are still training positions available for this year.
Programming blind? We see no problem there
At first glance, Martin's workplace doesn't look very different from those of other colleagues. A desk, an office chair, a laptop - that's about it. But a closer look reveals that there are no additional screens or a mouse. And if you watch Martin at work for a while, it quickly becomes clear that he works differently than the other colleagues. Because Martin is blind.
When the sighted colleagues program applications, they use an integrated development environment. They constantly switch back and forth between several open windows on their screens, compare or click buttons to compile. For Martin, this very visual way of working doesn't work. His headphones are his screen. For this, he uses so-called screen reader programs that recognize text within images and read the information to him. "Basically, my first programming skills were based on rewriting screen reader programs for my purposes. I was forced to customize them to my needs, so that they read aloud only what was interesting to me, for example." Martin, on the other hand, does not usually use a Braille display, an output device that translates digitized text into Braille and functions like a tactile keyboard. This is partly because he was not born blind and only had to painstakingly learn Braille as an adult. When Martin develops, he moves around on the command line and writes scripts that are composed of individual command line commands. But this requires a certain mental model, because he simply has to know certain contexts. Thus it needs at the beginning possibly somewhat longer, in order to learn the code. Once the code is internalized, however, he is often even faster with commands than his sighted colleagues.
Martin has been with us for over two years now as an application developer. He works in the web area and takes care of deployment or automation processes and the containerization of applications, among other things. At that time, the contact was established through a personnel consulting firm specializing in IT professionals. Because of his disability, the job search initially proved to be not so easy for the trained developer. And this despite the fact that he had been programming himself since 1997 and could look back on many years of professional experience even before his training. Even for managing director Jürgen Bucher, the agency's request came as a surprise at first: "A code can consist of complex structures and many programs are graphically structured. Martin, on the other hand, has to have it all read out to him and keep it in his memory. At first, I actually had a hard time imagining that. But we just tried it out!" With success, because Martin has long since joined the team and performs his tasks just like any other developer, but in a different way.
Martin sees himself as a mediator between the worlds and hopes that more companies will dare to employ employees with disabilities: "Often, the hurdles are not as high as many fear. My screen readers, for example, are all open source programs; I don't need any other aids." At many companies, however, he says, internal policies are so strict that often only certain programs may be used and no exceptions are granted. For Martin, it is therefore important to talk much more about accessibility, rather than participation. Companies should ask themselves the question, "How do I make it possible for someone to use their skills?" Martin is a trained professional with the same skills as a sighted application developer, but he is blind.
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AZÄD Annual Conference - Save the Date
Nothing planned for September? Why not visit us at the 12th AZÄD Annual Conference in Cologne.
From September 22-24, 2022, the Arbeitsgemeinschaft zytologisch tätiger Ärzte in Deutschland e.V. invites you to the Rhineland trade fair city and we will be there as exhibitors. During the three-day event, we will present QuickLIS, our laboratory information system for cytology, and show you how you can use it to fully digitalize the workflows for both your laboratory and your senders.
QuickLIS can be used both as a comprehensive laboratory information system and as an extension of your existing LIS. Depending on your needs, you can benefit from the flexible modules such as digital order entry via Order Entry, digital findings transmission with graphical findings view or automated pre-filling of the oKFE documentation sheets. Further functionalities can also be easily adapted to your needs.
Have you become curious? Then take the opportunity and come by. Cologne is definitely always worth a visit.
Where?
KOMED
Im Mediapark 7, 50670 Cologne, Germany
When?
Thursday to Saturday
September 22-24, 2022
...And if you can not be on site, please feel free to make an appointment with us by phone. We look forward to seeing you!
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Documentation obligation made easy
Cytology laboratories and gynecology practices are required to document cancer screening examinations as part of the oKFE guideline. For this purpose, the forms specified by IQTIG must be completed electronically and submitted to the responsible KV on a quarterly basis. This requires a great deal of effort on the part of the employees, as the individual forms usually have to be filled out by hand or extensively completed.
With QuickLIS, the documentation obligation is now child's play. With the new KV documentation module in combination with our Order Entry, the oKFE documentation forms can be almost completely pre-filled in the sending practice. The corresponding patient data as well as findings and any previous findings are transferred from the system. If necessary, the forms can be supplemented. After checking the documentation sheets, an export file is created, which is transmitted to the KV by the laboratory or the gynecological practice.
For all users, this approach saves an enormous amount of time - valuable time that is freed up for other things.
As a laboratory, you can offer your senders added value by giving them valuable time and making their daily work a little easier. Would you like to learn more about the latest QuickLIS module? Then simply contact us.
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After-work excursion with NABU
Half a year has passed in the meantime and our Advent campaign is still providing nice moments and encounters. Recently, we were able to see for ourselves that our donation to the NaturschutzbundDeutschland Gruppe Ulm/Neu-Ulm (NABU) literally fell on fertile ground.
During an excursion led by NABU Ulm in early summer temperatures, we got a comprehensive impression of the Arnegger Ried, a nature reserve near Ulm. The aim of this project is to restore the original pre-industrial lowland moor in order to create a habitat for the rare species found there. To this end, the area is grazed by cattle in the summer months to push back the overgrowth.
During our guided tour through the Arnegger Ried, we were able to convince ourselves of the impressive wealth of knowledge of our two excursion leaders. No matter what plant or animal it was, Diana May and Michael Rau from Ulmer NABU were able to answer almost any of our questions. And so this excursion not only showed us how well our donation is in the hands of Ulmer NABU, it also gave us a wonderful evening out and closed one or two gaps in our education.
Service specifications - available everywhere and always up to date
The service specifications provide your senders with basic information on the laboratory analyses you offer. However, this requires regular maintenance, for which programming skills are sometimes needed. In addition, the directory often needs to be maintained on multiple channels, making ongoing maintenance tedious.
With the QuickCON service specifications, maintaining your examination program is child's play. It can be maintained centrally in DocConnect and published automatically via all channels. Thus, the directory can be presented directly via QuickCON, displayed on your homepage, and exported as a PDF for printing at the push of a button. All changes can be made in no time at all and are automatically synchronized. The data required for this is taken directly from the laboratory information system.
In addition to integration on your website, the service directory can be presented as a separate landing page and is also available as a mobile view. In the case of multiple lab locations, different directories can also be displayed.
In addition, the QuickCON service specifications can be individually adapted to your corporate design by using your own logo and house colors, which has an even more positive effect on your customer loyalty.
You are not a QuickCON customer? Our service specifications can also be used as a stand-alone solution without any problems. Just get in touch with us.
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The wait was worth it: The little clown in Neu-Ulm
Take two clowns and let them bring one of the most widely read books in the world to the stage - and there you have it, a recipe for success that will captivate audiences of all ages. With "The Little Clown", the two clown performers Katrin Jantz and Hanna Münch from Ulm have succeeded in lovingly adapting the philosophical fairy tale "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The result is a poetic and mischievous play that takes its audience on a journey into another world and makes a plea for humanity.
The students and teachers of the Ludwigsfeld/Neu-Ulm elementary school recently had the opportunity to accompany the curious little clown on his journey to find a friend together with him. In a total of three performances, the two actresses took the children into a magical world and brought the most diverse adventures to life with a great deal of emotion and wit. Thanks to the lovingly designed stage set and the elaborate costumes, diving into this fantasy world was literally child's play, so that all spectators, whether young or old, were able to gather many beautiful impressions at the end and thus enjoyed a wonderful little break from everyday school life.
The play, which we produced in the course of our Advent fundraising campaign was supposed to be performed in December, but had to be postponed due to the pandemic. We think the wait for the little clown was more than worth it.
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New function in Order Entry: Interactive PDF forms for additional information
Certain examinations often require additional information for the laboratory request, which must be filled out manually in the doctor's office and usually also supplemented with the patient data.
To facilitate this process, it is now possible in Order Entry to add interactive PDF forms to the individual examinations. If a new order is created in the doctor's office and the corresponding examination is selected, the PDF form linked to it opens automatically. This can then be filled out digitally, printed or filed directly. The patient data is already stored automatically and no longer needs to be added manually.
You can define yourself in the laboratory for which examinations the interactive PDF forms are to be stored and when these are to be considered mandatory fields. This function can be easily linked to your existing set of rules.
The new Order Entry function simplifies the lab request for your senders and ensures error-free processes in the lab.
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VDCA Annual Meeting from May 6 to 8, 2022
Only a few days remain until this year's VDCA Annual Meeting: From May 6 to 8, 2022, cytology professionals will once again meet in Leipzig to further their education, exchange ideas and gather valuable impulses for their daily work. We are very pleased to be present for the first time as an exhibitor and to be able to present our laboratory information system QuickLIS to the attendees.
QuickLIS is the first laboratory information system that fully digitizes all cytology workflows and also facilitates communication with senders. It can be customized, operated intuitively and saves an enormous amount of time in the stressful daily laboratory routine - for an optimal workflow in cytology.
Visit us at our booth in Leipzig and let us convince you of QuickLIS. And if you can't be there in Leipzig, simply make an appointment for a non-binding online presentation. We are looking forward to meeting you.
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DMEA 2022 - we were there
Last week, the time had finally come again: For the first time since the start of the pandemic, the DMEA, Europe's leading event for the digitization of healthcare, opened its doors again. So there was no question that we couldn't miss this industry event.
With our booth, we were right in the middle of the trade show action and thus enjoyed many exciting topics and discussions. We were particularly pleased with the positive feedback on our products and innovations - especially on QuickLIS, our laboratory information system for cytology. Thus, we had many pleasant impressions and valuable input in our luggage on our way home.
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Life is live - DMEA from 26 to 28 April 2022
From April 26 to 28, the time has come: For the first time in three years, DMEA will open its doors - and finally live again. "Life is live" is also the motto under which Europe's leading event for the digitization of healthcare will once again attract numerous visitors to Berlin. Everything will revolve around the question of what moves the health IT of today and tomorrow.
We are very pleased to finally be back as an exhibitor and to show live how we contribute to the medical industry with our software solutions every day. We have some innovations around our software solution QuickCON in our luggage. We will also present QuickLIS, our laboratory information system for cytology, to a wider audience. Let us surprise you and visit us at our booth, Hall: 1.2 Booth: B-105.
You would like to make a personal appointment with us? Then simply contact us. We will also be happy to provide you with visitor tickets on request. We look forward to seeing you.
Berlin, here we come!
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German Laboratory Day 2023
Promote sustainability
On the occasion of our fundraising campaign in December, when we decided together as a team to forgo part of our bonus and donate it, we had already announced it: The company itself will donate a larger sum to several regional organizations from different areas over the course of the year in order to reach as many people in the region as possible.
We are dedicating this year's first donation to the area of sustainability. A topic that is part of our corporate culture and on which we continuously work to make a difference here as a company. Since we took great care in selecting organizations that are not only regionally based but also reflect our values, we chose an association that - despite its relatively young history - has already made a great contribution to the topic of sustainability.
The association "Haus der Nachhaltigkeit Ulm, Neu-Ulm und Region e.V." (House of Sustainability Ulm, Neu-Ulm and Region) has set itself the task of preserving the foundations of life for present and future generations by acting responsibly in the areas of society and the environment. The declared aim is to "actively and democratically accompany and shape social, economic, ecological, technological and ethical change in Ulm, Neu-Ulm and the region". The association is an initiative of citizens, NGOs, science and companies who all want to make a local contribution to the implementation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. In practice, seminars, lectures, workshops and cultural events are held and advice on sustainability is offered. A repair café has already been launched, and in the future the House of Sustainability will open its doors as a meeting place with a café and concept store, seminar and workshop rooms, offices and co-working spaces .
What this citizen-oriented and grassroots commitment has set up in a short time has impressed us greatly. That is why we support the "House of Sustainability" out of deepest conviction with a donation of € 15,000 and are sure that this sum is in the best hands here to contribute to the sustainable shaping of our future.
German Laboratory Day and DMEA - Visit us in Berlin
Spring is just around the corner and with it the trade show season. We will be exhibiting at two events in the coming months to present our laboratory solutions to a wider audience.
It all starts on March 23-24 with the German Lab Day/BDL Annual Conference in Berlin. And because it's so nice in Berlin, we'll be right back there one month later when the DMEA opens its doors once again from April 25 to 27. At Europe's leading trade fair for digital health, you will find us in Hall: 1.2 Stand: C-106 .
If you are planning a visit to the trade fair and would like a personal meeting, then simply contact us. We will also be happy to provide you with DMEA visitor tickets.
We look forward to seeing you in Berlin.
Fundraising campaign 2021: Long-lasting joy
Even one year after our big Advent campaign, we still receive news about exciting, valuable and heartwarming projects that were made possible by our donations. We are incredibly happy that we are able to directly experience these sustainable positive effects.
What the Ulm/Neu-Ulm education network set up last year with the donation really excited us: at the beginning of 2022, Monika Schmid's team had thought about how the money could benefit as many children as possible over as long a period as possible. What followed was a call for cooperation to schools and daycare centers to submit a funding application together with a potential cooperation partner - formally low-threshold and designed for the long term. Of 20 applications, 10 were finally selected for funding. The result was a colorful mix of projects in the fields of nature, sports, art and political education, which were launched last fall.
And because we are curious, we naturally took the opportunity to take a look at one of these projects at the end of the year: The cooperation between the Hans-Multscher-Grundschule and the Junge Ulmer Bühne (JUB) under the title "Vielfalt (er)leben" (Living Diversity) is a project group in which the students of all grades approach the topic of democracy in school in a playful way with the help of theater pedagogical exercises. The children were eager to get down to business and engaged with various impulses from inside and outside the school on this day.
And the projects at the other schools and kindergartens will also continue to generate great enthusiasm among many children in Ulm and Neu-Ulm until the end of the school year. In any case, we are super happy that we were able to make such a valuable difference with our donation and wish all participating children an exciting time with their projects.
Education fair 2023
The IT and medical sectors are industries with a future. So why not combine the two? No problem with us.
From application development and system integration to media design and office management - the opportunities for your start in professional life are as diverse as our everyday work.
And all of this is topped off by a great team and a beautiful work environment that make it a pleasure to come to work every day.
You want to learn more about us, our training and study offers? Then visit us from 09-11 February at the Ulm Education Fair, Hall: 1 Stand: 108.
We look forward to seeing you!
Review 2022
Annual reviews are such a thing. The Ukraine war, the energy crisis, inflation and Covid - to name just the tip of the iceberg... When you look at the world at the moment, you wonder whether you really need the umpteenth flashback to the past year.
Nevertheless, we find that it is especially important now to pause and consciously look back. To accept what was, in order to be able to look even more clearly into the future. And there are, the bright spots, which are worth to be appreciated accordingly...
This year, our team has been enriched by some valuable new colleagues. Together, we have put in a lot of effort to make a difference. In order to make our customers' daily work even easier and to advance the medical industry a little bit, we have added more smart features to our software solutions in 2022, such as the e-fax function in QuickCON. We were able to further establish our cytology software QuickLIS on the market and are pleased that one or the other trade show appearance was finally possible again. Our BS Customer Days in October were a complete success and showed us once again how valuable the close exchange with our customers is for our daily work.
But beyond our products and services, a lot has also been set in motion: We have defined our vision and shared values and have thus made great progress in developing our corporate mission statement. In addition, we have dealt intensively with the issue of sustainability and will focus more on this in the coming years.
What made us particularly happy this year was the fact that our major Advent fundraising campaign of 2021 bore its first fruit. It was exciting to see what the respective organizations were able to achieve with the donations. Not least because of this great experience, we decided at the end of the year to donate part of our bonus to "Aktion 100 000 und Ulmer helft". A decision that we made together as a team and that says a lot about us and our values. And these values will continue to carry us through the future and guide our work. In any case, we are well prepared for many exciting projects, new challenges and everything else that 2023 has to offer.
As always, we would like to take this opportunity to thank our customers and partners for the good cooperation and the trust you have placed in us. We wish you a relaxing holiday season and a happy new year.
QC-DEMIS adapter
The Gematik DEMIS adapter has been discontinued as of December 31, 2022. In order to continue to be able to reliably report infectious diseases to the responsible health authority in accordance with the Infection Protection Act (IfSG), we have developed a new adapter.
With the QC DEMIS adapter, you can report not only Covid pathogens but also all other pathogens supported by the DEMIS interface. that are supported by the DEMIS interface. An overview of the relevant pathogens can bepathogens can be found here.
The use of the QC-DEMIS adapter is independent of the laboratory information system, but only compatible with Windows operating systems. For authentication against the DEMIS interface, a certificate is required. certificate is required, which can be requested from the RKI. If you are already using the DEMIS adapter of the RKI the certificate is already available and you do not need to do anything else, because the certificate is also available for the QC-DEMIS adapter. certificate remains valid for the QC-DEMIS adapter.
Further information on how to apply for the certificate can be found here.
You can find out more about how it works in the attached flyer. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Now more than ever! We donate
Success is shareable - that has always been true in our company. And so it is our tradition to give back a little of our success in the form of an annual donation .
The last few years have been very positive economically for our company - an absolute privilege, of which we are very aware. Last year, we expressed the fact that this also results in social responsibility through our major Advent fundraising campaign.
But that's not all... This year, we employees voted and made a decision that each and every one of us personally supports: We are waiving part of our annual bonus and donating 15,789 euros to "Aktion 100 000 und Ulmer helft". This admittedly rather "crooked" sum is the result of a team-internal survey in which each employee was able to decide anonymously whether we should donate part of the bonus and how high the share should be. The democratic average now forms the donation sum.
Aktion 100 000 has made it its mission to support people in need in our immediate neighborhood - a task that is invaluable, especially in these times. We have been following the commitment of the Ulm-based organization for some time now and are very convinced of the unbureaucratic help that the employees provide for the people in our region. And this help is urgently needed, because the Ukraine war, the energy crisis and rising inflation mean that more and more people are now dependent on support . The food banks in Ulm, for example, needed help much earlier in the year than usual to cushion the extra workload, as Aktion 100 000 director Karl Bacherle told us personally.
We are sure that our donation is in the right place here and hope to pass on a small spark of hope in this way - now more than ever.
P.S.: It's not just the team that makes donations. The company itself will also donate a larger sum to various organizations over the coming year. More about this from the beginning of next year...
Fabulous!
The pupils of the Erich-Kästner elementary school in Ludwigsfeld/Neu-Ulm were now able to accompany Puss in Boots on such an adventure, lovingly staged by the Moussong puppet theater from Augsburg. We were happy to support the performance of the fairy tale classic and are delighted about this wonderful start to the pre-Christmas season.
Our Bucher Käpsele
If that's not a reason to celebrate: Our dual student Kai has not only mastered his bachelor's degree in computer science as the best student in his course, he was also honored by the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) as the "Best Student in the Faculty of Technology".
Kai had already completed internships with us during his school years before he then began his dual studies in our company in 2019 and has been a valuable part of our team ever since.
We are super proud of our "Käpsele" and congratulate from the bottom of our hearts for this special award. It's great that you are with us!
By the way: Not only our students and trainees are top-notch, but also our trainers: Our colleague Bianca was also awarded a commendation for her instructor aptitude test. Congratulations!