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Received Samples processed on the same day

  • Context & Pains
  • 1 Hospital Core
  • 40 Outreach Collection Stations
  • 6 people at sample reception
  • 2600 samples daily
  • Hundreds of samples arrived in common plastic bags, where they were unloaded onto a table and then manually sorted, leading to:
  • STATs and urgent samples not prioritized
  • Samples left unprocessed until the next day, causing unviable samples
  • Unbalanced workload
  • Indexor Changes
  • Sample traceability since collection, standardizing operating procedures
  • Only 1 person at sample reception
  • STATs, urgent and other priority samples are easily identified and treated, due to the sorting via worklist feature
  • Automated check-in processes 240 samples per minute, ensuring no pending workload for the next day
  • The selection of 90% of samples from the indexor within 45 minutes of delivery, ensuring more streamlined workload
  • Impacts
  • Received samples processed on the same day
  • Freeing up FTE for Lab work
  • Transports done with iLogger
  • Less plastic carbon
    footprint
  • Impacts
  • Received samples processed
    on the same day
  • Freeing up FTE for Lab work
  • Transports done with iLogger
  • Less plastic carbon footprint