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One Key to Lab Success Is Daily Performance Metrics
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 7 – May 19, 2014 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Every clinical lab today must deal with the twin challenges of performing an increased volume of tests while being paid less money. That’s why a handful of innovative lab organizations now use management information systems with analytics that provide detailed, real-time me…
Phlebotomy Automation Likely To Be Next Trend
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 13 – September 29, 2008 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Here’s a prediction that automation of work processes for phlebotomy, specimen collection, and specimen transport may be the next trend. Unfolding developments in the United States are creating a situation parallel to what was seen in Japanese hospital laboratories more tha…
ISO 15189 Is the Goal at Avera McKennan Lab
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 12 – September 8, 2008 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Now entering its ninth month on the path to accreditation under ISO 15189:2007 Medical Laboratories, Avera McKennan’s lab recently completed its “gap analysis.” This important step prepared the laboratory for the pre-assessment and assessment steps that will result in a…
New Study Demonstrates How Lean Labs Outperform Peers
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 1 – January 21, 2008 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: A new study provides powerful evidence that laboratories using Lean, Six Sigma, and similar process improvement methods consistently outperform conventionally managed laboratories. Using data sets from 100 laboratories, including 14 Lean/Six Sigma laboratories, consultant Tho…
Christian Hospital Laboratory Goes Lean with Solid Results
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIII No. 4 – March 20, 2006 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: As part of a major restructuring program under way at Christian Hospital in St. Louis, Laboratory Administrator Bette J. Stanley decided to apply Lean quality management methods in projects to improve work processes in phlebotomy and the chemistry department. Using internal q…
“Lean” Quality Methods Transform Core Lab In Florida Hospital
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 11 – August 18, 2003 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: DSI Laboratories of Fort Myers, Florida became the nation’s first hospital laboratory to apply the “Lean” quality management system to a high volume core laboratory. In just 13 weeks, DSI’s Lean team created a work cell which performs 80% of the test volume in a 400-b…
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