Orchard Harvest Reviews

Admin can set partitions for each user to only allow what functions each employee needs access to

Works best as a 2 screen display, which can be costly

Its a huge, capable piece of software

Patient database

Interface is great as well as customizable reports.

Some functions are hidden in menus and are difficult to find.

Comparing workload with our revenue. Orchard allows us to print weekly reports that helps us with our weekly benchmarking.

it easy of entering and pulling data from the system.

It is outdated compared to current systems out in the market place

easy to use and install. But does not have the latest and greatest technology out in the market place. Price per a user lic is high

It give us the ability to link to other reporting systems for lab results.

You can tell this LIS is developed with the lab in mind. There are a lot of features that come with the package that are missing in other platforms. The test dictionaries are easily navigated and the system can be customized to you lab pretty easily. My experience in using this system is in a small rural lab, and it has been great so far. We have no issues training new employees on it's use. Many of them comment on how easy it was to learn and use. We have few issues interfacing to other vendors as well. This is a big deal in today's electronic based healthcare records.

The main issue I face is the nightly downtime that the system requires. This could be caused by our current version not being completely up to date though. The downtime is a turn around time killer in the middle of the night. A big negative in a LIS in 2019 and is quite frankly unacceptable.

I would recommend looking into it as a possible solution for those in the market. It most likely would not be a great solution for a network of labs within a health system though in my opinion.

Utilizing Harvest we are able to track and mange our STAT times with the Emergency Room. Being able to upload data into Excel formats allows for easy report building.