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 than two decades ago—and led to the world’s first automated solutions for clinical […]
Phlebotomy Automation Likely To Be Next Trend
Goal will be to reduce variation in outcomes and raise the quality of individual work processes
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XV No. 13 - September 29, 2008 Issue
- Tags: accessioning, analyzer, analyzers, automation systems, clinical lab, clinical laboratories, continuous improvement, dark report, hospital laboratories, hospital laboratory, lab industry, laboratories, laboratory automation system, laboratory automation systems, laboratory staff, laboratory test, laboratory tests, laboratory work, lean lab, lean labs, pathologists, process improvement, process improvement methods, process improvement team, Six Sigma, specimen processing, standard work, the dark report, the laboratory
