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Lab Automation Viewed As Essential Solution
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 5 – April 14, 2008 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: A merger of three hospitals in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, forced PinnacleHealth’s lab director to find new ways to increase efficiency. A lab automation project helped improve turnaround time and staff productivity and cut costs. The cost savings is about 50 cents per test, …
Royal Free Hospital Is First Big British Lab Automation Project
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 4 – March 24, 2003 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: To date, only a handful of total laboratory automation (TLA) projects have been implemented in Great Britain. One of those first TLA projects is at the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, located in the northern suburbs of London. Design work started in 1998 and the first phase b…
Academic Center Lab Implementing Six Sigma
By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 16 – November 18, 2002 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Fairview-University Medical Center’s laboratory may be the nation’s first academic center laboratory to deploy Six Sigma and Lean management systems. Administration expects Six Sigma to accelerate the rate at which improvements in quality and productivity can be realized….
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