Custom Software Does Double Duty: Streamlines Workflow, Provides Top-Shelf Service

By Laurel Carbonneau

Posted May 12, 2022 in Management

For CEO Christian Saurman, developing his own lab management software and customer portal for his company, NEO Lab, Andover, MA, was the best and most expensive investment he ever made in his company—and also the hardest.


Four years ago, he realized NEO’s current off-the-shelf management software wasn’t cutting it; the lab had to “rig the system” to meet the unique needs of its ortho lab production. Saurman, a tech-savvy, out-of-the-box thinker with a degree in Computer Information Systems, decided to build his own system from scratch.


He hired Kanda Software, a company known for building software systems in the healthcare space. He explained the limitations of the previous software and his wish-list of all the features he wanted. It took 15 months of discussions, rethinking, analyzing and back-and-forth before the system, RxWizard, was complete. “It was time consuming to anticipate all of the scenarios the system would...

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  • Laurel Carbonneau

    Webinar Program Manager at LMT Communications, Inc. · Bethlehem, CT

    As a 12-year veteran of LMT, Laurel spearheads our Webinar platform, edits numerous sections of the magazine, writes feature articles and is the editorial webmaster.

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