AJ Miller Professor and Chair
Department of Pathology at University of Louisville
AJ Miller Professor and Chair
Department of Pathology at University of Louisville
James Nichols, PhD, DABCC, FACB
Medical Director, Clinical Chemistry
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Michael Bennett, PhD, FRCPath, FACB
Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Improving Laboratory Operations And Efficiencies
By Lucia Berte MA,MT(ASCP)
Your laboratory has a number of opportunities to investigate its current practices and improve upon efficiencies and overall operations. When your laboratory embraces continual learning and finds opportunities to improve, patient care will benefit.
The LEAN lab: automation, workflow, and efficiency
By Linda Covill and Alistair Gammie
Rethinking workflow and processes can have an impact on the ability of any clinical laboratory to do more with less—and to do it well, providing greater value for the healthcare dollars spent.
How Does a Laboratory Measure Process Improvement?
Improving the quality of care has become a major driving force for changes to health care systems worldwide. While quality of care is difficult to assess in its entirety, it is possible to define specific quality indicators that can be measured and evaluated for efficacy and used for process improvement.