Spitalul Clinic Judetean de Urgentá Bihor - Oradea, Romania

Seamless LIS integration: transforming lab efficiency

Laboratories face persistent challenges when integrating with Laboratory Information Systems (LIS). These integrations are resource-intensive, complex, and often delay operational readiness, especially in environments where multiple LIS platforms coexist.

For Consortiu Judetean – Oradea, the need for seamless integration was critical due to its high operational demands:

  • Scale: A 1,865-bed facility with over 2,967 medical staff serves multiple units, including Pulmonology, Maternity, and Infectious Diseases.
  • Volume: Processes around 2800 samples daily, with urgent and priority samples comprising only 2–3% of the total, yet demanding immediate attention.

Traditional LIS integration posed significant hurdles, requiring months of collaboration between IT teams and lab staff, delaying deployment, and inflating costs. Additionally, manual processes created bottlenecks, hindered real-time decision-making and increased the risk of errors.

Transforming Oradea’s Workflow

Challenges Solved:

  • Setup Time: The AMS integration reduced setup time by 2 months, accelerating the lab’s operational readiness. Without AMS, direct LIS integration would have required extensive manual intervention and testing.
  • Manual Bottlenecks: Automated workflows replaced the time-consuming manual tasks of sorting, prioritization, and logging, allowing the lab to process samples faster and more accurately.
  • Compliance: AMS streamlined ISO 15189 accreditation by automatically documenting every step of the workflow, enabling auditors to verify processes with ease.

 

How the Dashboard Supports Problem-Solving:

Real-time data offers insights into sample processing, transport conditions, and workflow efficiencies. This visibility supports proactive decision-making, ensuring the lab remains agile and responsive to daily demands.

To overcome these challenges, the laboratory implemented indexor, integrated with AlinIQ Analyzer Management System ™ (AMS) – a streamlined alternative to direct LIS integration.

AMS Integration Benefits:

1. Efficient Sample Management: Automates sorting, STAT prioritization, and real-time status updates, reducing delays for urgent samples.

2. Improved Traceability: Full automation in data capture ensures seamless tracking of sample location, handler, and collection time.

3. Customizable Quality Rules: AMS validates samples against transport and processing conditions, excluding compromised samples or special tests from autovalidation.

4. User-Friendly Interface: Intuitive design minimizes training requirements, empowering staff with confidence and operational independence.

Operational Efficiencies:

  • Setup Time Savings: Transitioned to AMS integration 2 months faster than a direct LIS connection, saving significant IT resources and costs.
  • Turnaround Time Improvement: Reduced sample processing time from 2–3 hours to just 5 minutes, a 36x improvement.
  • 2–3% STAT samples prioritized effectively: AMS identifies and processes urgent samples in less than two minutes from arrival.
  • Labor Savings: Reduced the staff required for sample reception from five to one.


After its first year, the lab achieved key milestones: consolidating three labs into one, adapting to future challenges, expanding tests by 15%, and improving response time by 75%.

Quality and Traceability:

  • Compliance: Enabled ISO 15189 accreditation through automated and transparent workflows.
  • Transportation Data: Leveraged AlinIQ AMS for implementing transport-specific rules, such as flagging compromised samples or excluding certain tests from worklist.

Laboratories face persistent challenges when integrating with Laboratory Information Systems (LIS). These integrations are resource-intensive, complex, and often delay operational readiness, especially in environments where multiple LIS platforms coexist.

For Consortiu Judetean – Oradea, the need for seamless integration was critical due to its high operational demands:

  • Scale: A 1,865-bed facility with over 2,967 medical staff serves multiple units, including Pulmonology, Maternity, and Infectious Diseases.
  • Volume: Processes around 2800 samples daily, with urgent and priority samples comprising only 2–3% of the total, yet demanding immediate attention.

Traditional LIS integration posed significant hurdles, requiring months of collaboration between IT teams and lab staff, delaying deployment, and inflating costs. Additionally, manual processes created bottlenecks, hindered real-time decision-making and increased the risk of errors.

To overcome these challenges, the laboratory implemented indexor, integrated with AlinIQ Analyzer Management System ™ (AMS) – a streamlined alternative to direct LIS integration.

AMS Integration Benefits:

1. Efficient Sample Management: Automates sorting, STAT prioritization, and real-time status updates, reducing delays for urgent samples.

2. Improved Traceability: Full automation in data capture ensures seamless tracking of sample location, handler, and collection time.

3. Customizable Quality Rules: AMS validates samples against transport and processing conditions, excluding compromised samples or special tests from autovalidation.

4. User-Friendly Interface: Intuitive design minimizes training requirements, empowering staff with confidence and operational independence.

Transforming Oradea’s Workflow

Challenges Solved:

  • Setup Time: The AMS integration reduced setup time by 2 months, accelerating the lab’s operational readiness. Without AMS, direct LIS integration would have required extensive manual intervention and testing.
  • Manual Bottlenecks: Automated workflows replaced the time-consuming manual tasks of sorting, prioritization, and logging, allowing the lab to process samples faster and more accurately.
  • Compliance: AMS streamlined ISO 15189 accreditation by automatically documenting every step of the workflow, enabling auditors to verify processes with ease.

 

How the Dashboard Supports Problem-Solving:

Real-time data offers insights into sample processing, transport conditions, and workflow efficiencies. This visibility supports proactive decision-making, ensuring the lab remains agile and responsive to daily demands.

Operational Efficiencies:

  • Setup Time Savings: Transitioned to AMS integration 2 months faster than a direct LIS connection, saving significant IT resources and costs.
  • Turnaround Time Improvement: Reduced sample processing time from 2–3 hours to just 5 minutes, a 36x improvement.
  • 2–3% STAT samples prioritized effectively: AMS identifies and processes urgent samples in less than two minutes from arrival.
  • Labor Savings: Reduced the staff required for sample reception from five to one.


After its first year, the lab achieved key milestones: consolidating three labs into one, adapting to future challenges, expanding tests by 15%, and improving response time by 75%.

Quality and Traceability:

  • Compliance: Enabled ISO 15189 accreditation through automated and transparent workflows.
  • Transportation Data: Leveraged AlinIQ AMS for implementing transport-specific rules, such as flagging compromised samples or excluding certain tests from worklist.

AlinIQ Analyzer Management System is a trademark of either the Abbott group of companies or their respective owners. Indexor trademarks are owned by iSens-Electronica, Lda.

AlinIQ Analyzer Management System is a trademark of either the Abbott group of companies or their respective owners. Indexor trademarks are owned by iSens-Electronica, Lda.