Combining Lean with Lab Automation to Get Impressive Results – July 13, 2015

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXII No. 10 – July 13, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: By combining total lab automation with Lean techniques in a comprehensive makeover of its microbiology lab, one of the largest labs providing hospital acute care and community microbiology services in North America achieved major benefits. Benefits ranged from improve…

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Combining Lean Techniques with Lab Automation to Get Impressive Results

By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXII No. 10 – July 13, 2015 Issue

PROBABLY NO AREA OF CLINICAL LABORATORY MEDICINE is experiencing the dramatic transformation happening in microbiol…

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Combining Lean with Lab Automation to Get Impressive Results

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 10 – July 13, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: By combining total lab automation with Lean techniques in a comprehensive makeover of its microbiology lab, one of the largest labs providing hospital acute care and community microbiology services in North America achieved major benefits. Benefits ranged from impro…

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Lean Used to Lay Groundwork for Lab’s 15189 Accreditation

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 2 – February 3, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Henry Ford Health System’s laboratory organization has become first in the nation to have all its laboratory sites “standardized under one source of leadership” and accredited to the standards of ISO 15189: Medical Laboratories. The journey to achieve this current state…

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Scripps’ Tumor Board Finds Value in Digital Imaging of Slides

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 14 – October 12, 2009 Issue

CEO Summary: When the Pathology Department at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California, was considering the purchase of a digital imaging system, it gained unlikely allies. Non-pathologist physicians participating in the department’s tumor boards advocated for the purchase afte…

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Using Lean to Cut Pap Test TAT Pays Off At Baystate Medical

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 12 – August 31, 2009 Issue

USE OF LEAN METHODS HAS UNLOCKED major improvements at Baystate Health’s Department of Pathology in Springfield, Massachusetts. One Lean project cut average Pap test turnaround time by more than 50%. Another Lean project attacked errors with Advanced Beneficiary No…

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Boston’s Beth Israel Scores Improvement Gains with Lean

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 4 – March 16, 2009 Issue

CEO Summary: Lean methods are helping laboratories resolve aggravating problems that have been unresolvable for as long as 10 years. At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, improvement teams involving the laboratory and ED staff addressed high rates of hemolyzed specim…

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Quest South Florida Wins Governor’s Award for Quality

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 13 – September 17, 2007 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: It’s an important milestone for the clinical laboratory profession. Quest Diagnostics Incorporated South Florida, based in Deerfield Beach, Florida, earned the 2007 Florida Governor’s Sterling Award for quality. This is only the second laboratory in this country to win a …

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Key Trends Drive Change for Clinical Laboratories

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 1 – January 8, 2007 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Technology plays an ever-growing role in reshaping the organization and operation of clinical laboratories. New technologies figure prominently in THE DARK REPORT’S 2007 list of key trends in the clinical laboratory industry. Technological advances in instr…

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Canadian Lab Confab Reveals Useful Insights

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 15 – October 24, 2005 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Last month, a group of Canadian early-adopter pathologists and laboratory directors came together for the first-ever Executive Edge forum to share best practices and other cutting-edge developments in laboratory management. Among the noteworthy developments is Canada Health I…

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