Perll Diagnostics Partners with MedSpeed Healthcare Transportation
Mechanicsburg, PA, December 9, 2011 - MedSpeed LLC, an ISO-certified, technology-enhanced healthcare transportation solutions provider, has been
selected as the exclusive transportation provider for Perll
Diagnostics, a premier medical pathology laboratory in south
central Pennsylvania.
"From our inception, the goal at Perll Diagnostics has been to
provide quality results and fast turnaround time," says Nava K.
Nawaz, M.D., FCAP, president and laboratory director, Perll
Diagnostics, Inc. "We have partnered with MedSpeed to transport our
patient-critical specimens because their exclusive experience-and
proprietary technology-serving the healthcare industry means that
we can deliver on that promise, and focus on what we do best."
Perll Diagnostics provides doctors with the convenience of
ordering tests online and viewing results online within a matter of
hours. Offering high levels of customer service, industry-leading
turn-around times and comprehensive instrumentation and quality
assurance software, Perll Diagnostics, Inc. is an integrated
Clinical and Surgical Pathology laboratory that provides a variety
of services including chemistry, hematology, coagulation,
urinalysis, infectious disease, immunology, microbiology and
surgical pathology.
"MedSpeed's objective is to help healthcare organizations, like
Perll Diagnostics, reduce risk, achieve maximum business value and
improve the patient
experience by providing strategic support to facilitate their
objectives," said Robert Vivoda, MedSpeed's vice president of
product development. "While often overlooked and rarely considered,
healthcare transportation, the systematic process by which patient
and business critical materials are transported to and from
multiple touch points, can be an asset that improves quality and
patient experiences and supports accountable care models."
Perll Diagnostic's mission is to provide quick turnaround time
with clinical pathology results available within a few hours and
for most surgical cases within 24 hours. Reports are
immediately sent to clinicians and are available to patients
online. With Electronic Medical Record integration, results are
archived in the patient's file, and complimentary consultations
with Perll's Board Certified Pathologist are available. The
laboratory of Perll Diagnostics has been accredited by CLIA
(Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act) and CAP (College of American
Pathologists).
About MedSpeed
Every patient interaction, from a routine clinic visit to an
urgent blood transfusion, relies in some way on the same-day pickup
and delivery of a specimen, pharmaceutical, radiology film, blood
product, medical record or supply. MedSpeed is an
ISO-certified, technology-enhanced healthcare transportation
solutions provider that helps organizations reduce risk and achieve
maximum business value. MedSpeed has also been granted the "Peer
Reviewed by HFMA®" designation, a rigorous eleven-step objective
third party evaluation of products and services conducted by the
Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA).
For more than eleven years, healthcare organizations have worked
with MedSpeed to transform their transportation into a
globally-optimized, leverageable logistical framework - ripe to
produce quality service results and an enhanced economic value
proposition. Governed under the principles of Lean Six Sigma,
MedSpeed's superior approach to transportation design and execution
consistently delivers operational quality, economic value and
strategic advantage.