Deliver Results Automatically To Your Clients

• Deliver your results automatically by Auto Fax, Secure Web Site, and/or direct interface to client EMR/EHR. Check out the Add-Ons page for details.

Integrated Security Model

• Full username and password authentication for each user.
• Permissions System
  - Administrator managed user-level access control.
• Encryption of data being passed between the server and workstations
  - Requires server based installation

Persistent Case List

• Case list is always on the screen for easy, rapid access to cases.
• Filterable by case number, patient name, pathologist/cytotech, case type, status of case and date range.
• Sortable by case number, patient name and date.
• View/Print, Sign, Un-sign or Amend case directly from case list.

Imaging Support

• Insert images and graphics into AP Easy
  -Include inserted images on the final report or simply store the images with the case for future reference.
  -Insert images DIRECTLY into AP Easy with just two clicks of the mouse via a TWAIN-compatible microscope camera.
  -Insert image files by selecting a file or selecting an entire directory to insert the images in a batch.
• Store common line art graphics in a library for reuse
  -Create/acquire your own line art graphics that can be used on many cases by storing them in the Images Library.
• Mark and Caption each image inserted on a final report.
  -drag and drop icons onto your image to draw attention to significant areas
• Support for many common image types
  - ie. JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIF

Case Document Management – Go Paperless!

• Store digital versions of Requisitions, Consults, Outside Lab Results, etc with each case.
  -Scan paper documents directly into AP Easy via a TWAIN-compatible scanner
  -Insert files of any type. Word, Excel, PDF, JPEG, etc.
• Insert multiple documents all at once.
  -Drop all your files into a single directory using the Accession/Case Number in the file names and AP Easy will insert all the files in that directory into each respective case with a single menu selection.
• Print stored documents with the AP Easy Final Report.
  -It’s as simple as marking a box. AP Easy will print any document marked to be printed with the Case Report each time you print the Case Report.

Special Requests

• From special stains to deeper cuts, it’s as simple as selecting a request from a list.
• User maintained library of requests.
  -Requests can be categorized for easy lookup.
  -CPT Codes can be directly associated with a request for auto-coding.
• Requests appear in a fully filterable list for easy access by Histology staff.
  -Filter the list by date, pathologist who requested, request, status(Complete or Pending), and Case Number.
  -Print slide labels for the request as well as Control labels.

Slide/Bottle Label Printing

• Print slide labels directly from AP Easy.
  -allows for printing of labels for blocks AND levels.
• Slide Label Designer allows you to layout your own slide label template.

Consolidated Existing Patient Check

• Patient check is now done without requiring multiple screens.
• Patient record checked against case records when modifying or deleting a patient record to help prevent errant removal or modification of an existing patient.

Macros (Canned Text) Support

• Fully user controlled macro capabilities.
• Users can add, remove, modify macros for use when entering case data.
  -user can specify a specific field to use a macro in or for use in any field.
• Support for multiple specimen macros.
  -populate multiple specimens by inserting a single macro on the case.
  -For example, you can populate all parts of a Prostate report with one button button click or keystroke.
• Support for linking macros together for one click insertion of multiple macros.
  -Macros of any type can be linked together.
  -For example, you can link site, procedure, gross description, and CPT codes together to auto-populate those fields with standard, canned text with a SINGLE button click or keystroke.
  -You can even link a slide label macro to other macros. So, if you have common series of labels to print for specific specimens, you can setup AP Easy to automatically create the series of labels when you insert the specimen type.

General Query

• Extremely powerful searching capabilities are built into the general query.
• Query any field that you enter information into
  - ie, Diagnosis, Date of Report, Case Logged in By or Referring Physician
• Extend and constrain results of previous query
• Build complex multi-request queries
  - For example, find all cases with basal cell carcinoma AND adenocarcinoma in the diagnosis received during a specific time period.
• Selectively print all reports in the query results list or transfer the cases in the query results list to the persistent case list to work with those cases.

Filter As You Type

• See possible matches as you type.
  -When filtering case list and libraries(ie. Patients, Physicians, Macros, etc.), entering patient, physician(s), and macros on any case.
• Never take your hands off the keyboard to insert macros.

Print to PDF

• Print any report directly to a secured and encrypted PDF. Useful for storing PDF copies of reports on a server for backup, attaching a report to a secure email, or delivering a report to be incorporated into your client’s EMR/EHR.

WYSIWYG Printing of Final Reports

• What you see when viewing a report on a screen is exactly what you get when the report is printed.

Quick Shot Client Statistics

• Go to the physician’s record and see how many cases and specimens received from the physician.
  -monthly, year-to-date, and last 12 months
• For physician’s with multiple locations, the statistics are broken down by location.

Calendar Based Date Entry

• All dates can be chosen from a pop-up calendar.
  - Eliminates data-entry errors.

Improved User Interface/Navigation

• Icon based buttons for visual representation
• Tooltip system
  - Pass the mouse over an icon and a tip will appear explaining the button’s intended use.
• Multiple window user interface
• Customized application menus
  - Allows for cleaner screens as most functions previously requiring a button on screen can now be assigned to an application menu.

Sign-out Helper

• Administrator controlled list of fields that are required to have information entered before a case can be signed out.
• User will be informed at sign-out if a case is missing information.
• If the user chooses to fix the missing information, a list of fields missing information will appear.
• The user can click on the field in the list and will be taken directly to that field to enter the missing information.

Audit Trail

Log activity from simple access of a case to field modification, sign out, and viewing of a reports.