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Workfl ow Automation Solutions for Mid-volume Laboratories Introduced
Beckman Coulter, a clinical diagnostics leader, has announced the European launch of the DxA 5000 Fit, a workfl ow-automation solution designed to fi t into medium-sized labs that run fewer than 5,000 tests a day.
“When we look at automation for our labs it’s a balancing act between system throughput capacity, test menu and footprint of the system. At the Harrogate District Hospital site, we knew that a large automated system will be too large and excessive and a standalone system doesn’t give us the streamlined workfl ow we want. What we needed was
a compact automation system that reduced the number of steps, requiring minimum human intervention and generated a valid result at fi rst pass so that our lab professionals are not moving samples around but performing the valuable scientifi c tasks they are trained for,” said Afruj Ruf, Managing Director at Integrated Pathology Solutions LLP, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.
In a survey, lab directors and managers were asked to identify the key challenges hospital labs are facing. The results found that staffi ng (26%) and turnaround time (23%) were identifi ed as top priorities. Automation plays a key role in helping to address many of these issues while enabling precious resources to focus on high-value, clinical tasks.
“For large laboratories, TLA is a reality today. However, for medium-volume labs like ours that process fewer than 4,000 tests per day, comprehensive workfl ow-automation solutions haven’t been an option,” said Susan Enciso, System Supervisor of Chemistry, Excela Health. “Beckman Coulter’s DxA 5000 Fit solution is the right fi t for us,”
With the DxA 5000 Fit, mid-sized labs can enjoy the same benefi ts as larger-volume labs: comprehensive workfl ow automation to reduce up to 80% of manual steps through pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical automation, conserving precious human resources to do higher-value clinical work; intelligent routing with dynamically calculated route planning for rapid and consistent TAT, with STATs always prioritized to deliver results faster; fl exible design that can be adapted to meet a mid-volume lab’s space and infrastructure constraints.
“We chose the DxA 5000 Fit because it offers us end-to-end automation and will automate a lot of the pre- and post-analytical routine work our skilled technologists spend their time doing,” said Dr Hervé Vermeulen, Lab Director at Centre Hospitalier de Calais.
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