Friday, 4 October 2013

The laboratory is an important cog in the patient recovery lifecycle

Clinical diagnosis is affirmed by results and that means if your laboratory technology is not up to par, you could be dispensing wrong information that could be critical to the treatment of the patient.   One of the most common problems in relation to the manual lab setting is traceability. Putting the responsibility on the workers not to make a mistake would be asking too much from them.

Laboratory information management system

The laboratory information management system automates your lab to enhance service. The technology is aimed at reducing, if not eliminating, human error in the whole mix. Now, there’s no system in the world that can guarantee error-free results. The difference when you adopt laboratory informatics is that you trace the whole procedure to determine where you went wrong. From there, rectifying the error can be quite easy.

Saving on costs

Automating the laboratory technology will actually allow you to save on costs. Equipping your workplace with a lot of lab technologists for menial work will be doing them a disservice. For example, data mining is rigorous work that can use up most of the time of the lab technologist who can better spend his efforts on improving patient care and delivering accurate results.

Just an example, using bar codes immediately results to less data entry errors. It also allows the laboratory to handle and management huge amount of data. The more your laboratory technology is automated, the better for your organization to handle the rigors of growing customer base and demands.

Making things easier

The ultimate aim of laboratory informatics is to make the jobs of your workers and employees easier. When they are less stressed because of too much workload, patient care suffers. It must be stressed, however, that technology is only meant to enhance service. Personnel skills play a larger part in delivering high-quality patient care.