A Strategy for Optimizing Beaker Functionality: Leveraging the Hospital C-Suite

I am reconciled to the fact that many pathology departments will be running Epic's LIS, Beaker. Hospital executives continue to seek anenterprise wide solutionto support their hospital IT needs. After perhaps selecting Epic's EHR, they will often gravitate to Beaker for their LIS. Beaker has added sufficient functionality such that it now can be described as a satisfactory choice in the face of pressure from the C-suite. Beaker can thus be described as agenericLIS. It will never achieve the status of a best-of-breed LIS because there is no need for Epic to improve it to the highest functionality level. Epic's core business is its EHR. It's not possible, nor even necessary, for the company to extensively develop its departmental modules. Another reason why Beaker will never achieve all of the functionality required by sophisticated pathology departments is the rapidity of scientific discovery in the fields of molecular pathology, genomics, and digital pathology. In order to meet this LIS functionality vacuum, new specialized software companies will inevitably arise to meet the needs not supplied by Beaker. Pathology departments running Beaker will need to purchase a number of such specialized laboratory software products but will then require asystem integrator on the lab side to knit together the information output of their installed specialized systems that will then be interfaced to Beaker and the EHR for reporting. There ...
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