Compass

Now with CompassPlus — unlimited Case Simulators fully integrated into your competency workflows.

Laboratories worldwide rely on Compass to assess staff performance, monitor real-time compliance with CLIA requirements, and ensure their teams consistently uphold the highest standards.

See how labs are bridging competency, compliance and clinical judgment.

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  • 100% paperless

  • Customized assignments

  • Automated tracking

  • Real-time reporting

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Ensure competency WITH CONFIDENCE

MediaLab by Vastian's Compass solution is an advanced competency assessment management solution designed to ensure excellence in your competency program. With access to over 10,000 customizable assessment templates sourced from leading global laboratories, you can efficiently deliver assessments, monitor employee progress in real-time, and generate comprehensive reports.

Compliance Requirements

Compass helps laboratories meet these and related requirements:

CAP: GEN.55500

CLIA: 42 CFR 493.1235

CAP: GEN.55505

TJC: HR.01.06.01

An all-in-one solution

It’s time to demonstrate your lab staff’s competency and show your higher standards to accrediting bodies. Compass allows you to easily assess your team’s competencies and take corrective action where necessary in one easy-to-manage platform.

Import & customize

Leverage pre-built lab competency assessments covering all six CLIA procedures, or easily create your own tailored to your lab's unique needs.

  • Design custom competency profiles for each instrument platform, test system, or manual method your lab utilizes.

  • Develop problem-solving quizzes, observation checklists, PT/blind duplicate activities, and more, ensuring comprehensive and compliant assessments.

Standardize & automate

Streamline your competency management process by automating scheduling and ensuring consistency across all locations and staff.

  • Automate the scheduling of initial, 6-month, and annual competency assessments to reduce administrative burden and ensure compliance.

  • Standardize lab assessments across multiple sites and staff, delivering a consistent assessment of skills per test system.

  • Monitor progress in real-time through dynamic, continuously updated dashboards for complete oversight of staff performance.

Demonstrate quality

Maintain a complete, centralized repository of lab employee assessment records.

  • Consolidate all employee assignments and competency activity records for effortless tracking and quick retrieval during inspections.

  • Ensure thorough documentation with validated observations and administrator sign-offs on completed assessments.

  • Seamlessly collect and store completion data for streamlined auditing and comprehensive reporting.

CompassPlus

Built on the existing Compass foundation, CompassPlus extends your competency program with simulation-based assessments and intelligent automation.

  • Immersive Case Simulators: Assess real clinical judgment — not just checklist completion — using virtual, case-based simulations that challenge staff to interpret data, make decisions, and apply knowledge in realistic scenarios.

  • Unlimited Simulator Access: All case simulators included with CompassPlus. Unlimited seats, unlimited use, and no licensing restrictions.

  • Seamless Compass Integration: Assign simulations directly within Compass training and competency activities. No separate logins, no toggling between systems — just one continuous workflow.

  • Actionable Competency Data: Go beyond pass/fail. CompassPlus provides score breakdowns, category-level insights, and case review videos to support coaching, remediation, and quality improvement.

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Compass vs. CompassPlus Comparison

Feature Compass CompassPlus
Automated assignments
Regulatory compliance (CAP, CLIA, COLA, TJC, ACHC)
Centralized dashboards and reporting
Case-based simulators
Unlimited simulator seats
Scenario-based problem solving
Strengthens critical thinking and interpretive accuracy
Enhances staff retention and engagement through interactive learning

Robust Features & Functionality

Ready-to-use assessments

Gain instant access to a comprehensive library of over 10,000 pre-built competency assessment templates, allowing you to quickly deploy evaluations across your team.

On-demand access

Easily review competency records, identify deficiencies, conduct internal audits, and more—all from one centralized platform.

Customization & collaboration

Empower your team to collaborate in building tailored assessments, and seamlessly share templates across your entire organization to meet standardization goals.

Optimized audits

Generate complete, exportable reports for any or all staff members, ensuring you're fully prepared for audits at any time.

Streamlined assigning

Eliminate assignment discrepancies by quickly matching assessments to user groups, ensuring comprehensive coverage with minimal effort.

Personalized profiles

Provide staff with personalized, downloadable competency profiles that include current and past activities, observer signatures, and more, for a transparent and organized record.

Assess Competency Where It Matters Most — in Real-World Scenarios

CompassPlus includes unlimited access to an expanding library of simulation-based cases across key laboratory disciplines, including bacteriology, blood bank, hematology, urinalysis, body fluids, and more. Each simulation includes built-in feedback and scoring designed to help staff not just test, but learn — giving leaders confidence that competency translates to performance at the bench.

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Seamless integration across products

Make sure your labs always stay on top of compliance, document management, and more by implementing Compass with more solutions by MediaLab by Vastian.

Document Control

Easily connect policies from Document Control to activities in Compass, allowing administrators to assign policy readings as part of a training activity, ensuring seamless compliance and knowledge retention.

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IQE

Link competency assessments directly to IQE events, supporting corrective actions by associating competency assignments with non-conforming event findings for a comprehensive approach to quality management.

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Delivering value beyond the lab

5,000,000

Competency assessments completed

12,000,000

Activities reported

10,000+

Community-shared assessments available

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"My favorite thing about Compass is that you can designate which CLIA elements of performance a particular activity satisfies. I also like that it is self-service. My users can log on and manage their to-do list and make sure they have everything ready for their annual competency. As administrator, being able to run a report to see who has upcoming due dates at a glance is very valuable."

Joel B.

Performance and Outreach Manager, Hospital & Health Care, 1,001-5,000 employees

"Maintaining competencies at the required intervals can be difficult, especially with many individuals maintaining several processes that were assessed at various time points. Compass simplifies training and competency by allowing users to link documents from Document Control, create additional course modules or exams, and build the checklist all in one place. Compass even keeps track of when a follow-up assessment is needed and alerts the individual and supervisor. We've saved so much time with this program."

Beth Sicari

Priva Path Labs