Make your lab work flow with Fluent IDTM
(WorldNews Switzerland)

By Florence Collins A long-term clinical lab study lasting over 10 years showed that more than 60% of all mistakes in the stat lab (the lab that receives high priority samples) can be attributed to the pre-analytical phase. This figure has not changed much from 1997 to 2007,despite advances in the technology. With higher numbers of samples to process, lab managers need ever higher sample throughput and error-free connection to the sample ID. Many solutions on the market can scan barcodes on test tubes, but they are all limited by an age-old problem: the dead time between loading the tubes, reading the tubes and handling the errors. The decoupling of tube loading and barcode reading from...