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Orchard Harvest LIMS

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What is Orchard Harvest LIMS?

Orchard Software in Indiana offers Orchard Harvest LIMS, a laboratory information management system dedicated to providing operational support and streamlining with rules-based decisioning, data analytics and business intelligence, and clear interfaces.

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Harvest LIMS. Great for small and starter labs

Incentivized
Daniel Merkl
IT Support in Information Technology at Assurance Scientific Laboratories (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Good for small labs
  • Good support
  • Configurable for your environment

Cons

  • Pricey
  • Slow to get big projects done
  • Changing database to a standard SQL

Return on Investment

  • I'm not the numbers guy but I think Harvest has allowed us to grow and efficiently serve our customers.
  • From an IT standpoint we have had some trouble with the client crashing.
  • We implemented an auto restart to help avoid those delays in work flow.

Other Software Used

Proofpoint Essentials for Small Business, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), 3CX

Flexible, Powerful, Archaic

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Customer Service (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Rules Engine - We use rules to customize what happens when entering orders, evaluating results, or sending results. We are also able to run them based on location.
  • Interfaces - It is connected to our EHR and reference lab. This allow us to send and receive results, demographics, billing, ect easily and to and from one another.
  • Advanced Configuration Options - I love to hate them. While you can do a lot in the settings, there is a wall of text that you can use to customize even more how Harvest behaves and does.
  • Event Logs - When something goes wrong it does a good job to logging what happened.

Cons

  • User Interface - The software is like 25 years old, and it feels like it. They have added some buttons and links to try to make it easier, but it's not as flashy as the SaaS applications that are being built these days. It feels like there isn't a lot of time spent on refining the features, just adding more to it.
  • Archaic Architecture - The application use 4D for the database. This means that you can't use SQL for queries, latency is a huge issue and there isn't a hosted option. You have to have your own in-house server to run the server application.
  • Client is an Application - We have workstations dedicated to managing the interfaces. These workstations have to run the application as a program and can not run them as a service. This means that if you want to apply Windows updates it required manually closing and re-launching the application.
  • Data Mining - There are some basic reports, but they do not really allow you to build complex reports about the patients or work being performed.

Return on Investment

  • The support provided by Orchard Software for Harvest allows me to not have to worry as much about the system. I can grant them access to my system and trust them to work on the issue while I work on other issues.
  • The automation saves a lot of time for those in the lab. There have been a few times that the lab has been down for a couple of hours and having to catch up and enter the results from the instruments manually can take the rest of the day.

Other Software Used

Atlassian Confluence, Microsoft Office 2016, Apple iCloud, Hyper-V, JIRA Service Desk, Windows Server