Testing your clinical automation system before you go live is always a challenge. There is no universal recipe or roadmap to guide laboratories on how to verify the operation of their automation according to their workflow and requirements. Learn how you can apply a risk-based approach to validate your automation system using a systematic methodology that takes the stress out of planning your testing program.
Read MoreLabs that continue to maintain paper-dependent processes will struggle to keep pace with the changing COVID-19 environment. Paper and manual based processes set up unintended and unforeseen bottlenecks in the laboratory and across the organization that are detrimental to your lab and organization. Learn why paper based systems could endanger your data integrity and quality more than you think.
Read MoreTalking Laboratories celebrates laboratory professionals who are integral to the support of patient care.
Read MoreAn effective autoverification ROI should reflect your current and future state. The final step in any ROI design is to estimate your autoverification program benefits and costs to win approval and link it to your program’s overall value. We show you how to layout your autoverification ROI in a wholistic approach to bridge the clinical with the financial to secure stakeholder approval.
Read MoreThe process of building an autoverification ROI that tells your story can be an intimidating task. How do you gather costs and benefits in an overwhelming sea of laboratory data? Our ROI takes a simplified approach of leveraging your current results review data to build a strong ROI business case. Explore how to breakdown your data to successfully support your autoverification solution purchase.
Read MoreAnne Tate from Talking Laboratories contributed to a Dark Daily white paper that discusses how a laboratory can replace outreach manual order entry processes with automation. The white paper explores how laboratories can expand their revenue generation and capabilities by using automation to collect, process and report their data both horizontally and vertically to increase data use and reliability
Read MoreIt is time to close 2020 and we wanted to talk about how we are helping you meet the moment and provide you with information that may inspire you to take action. Talking Laboratories is more than Talk. We get you moving.
Read MoreOur mission this year was to introduce our blog series that would inspire you to dig deeper when thinking about IT and informatics. No doubt, 2020 was an eventful year and Talking Laboratories wanted to be a part of the conversation. We hope that our blogs have been insightful and thought provoking. Check out our most popular blogs of 2020.
Read MoreWant to justify an autoverification investment or expansion of your rules-based program? A Return on investment (ROI) is an effective and powerful tool to tell your story to justify your business needs. A ROI based on clinical and operational improvements can connect the dots to prove your program value and get the funding you need to build your ideal autoverification program
Read MoreWe are rolling out a 3-part blog series on the Auto-Verification Return on Investment. Our three part blog series gives you a road map on how to prepare a AV ROI justification that is customized by laboratory discipline. Follow along our blog series as we lead you step-by-step through the process of creating a meaningful auto-verification ROI business case.
Read MoreScaling up and building an adaptive network of COVID-19 testing requires new technologies. The use of crowdsourcing to match demand with excess laboratory capacity is emerging as a solution to coordinate the right test at the right time. Crowdsourcing technology can help bridge the healthcare divide by rapidly connecting labs with providers to improve the velocity of COVID-19 testing.
Read MoreMany labs lack a ‘map’ to help pinpoint where the result decisions rules are located across their multiple IT systems, what they actually do and what data they act upon. Good rule stewardship requires that labs periodically perform a rule inventory to trace each rule and the intended result outcomes across the organization.
Read MorePerforming a supply chain risk assessment has never been more important as the world becomes more interconnected and your product dependencies become more complex. If your lab is considering multiple COVID-19 analyzer platforms or products to shore up your testing coverage, a supply chain risk assessment will identify those overlapping supply chain issues
Read MorePerforming a supply chain risk assessment has never been more important, especially for COVID-19 testing kits and instrumentation. If you are considering multiple COVID-19 testing platforms to shore up your testing coverage, a new set of risk criteria should be considered to mitigate any supply chain disruptions. The rules have changed, and your risk assessment will help you build-in resilience into your supply chain.
Read MoreThe standardization of data transmission across the healthcare spectrum has never been more important or critical. Interoperability is the bridge between the medical community, our healthcare system and public health. One of the tools that can make a difference in the virus spread is data congruence to identify and manage the COVID-19 virus spread, support disease containment and influence future public policy.
Read MoreLaboratory testing data is created faster than most labs can aggregate and disperse data to their leadership and healthcare organizations. Dashboards specific for COVID-19 can capture data in-flight to support key management decisions to anticipate the virus spread and future impacts as the pandemic unfolds.
Read MoreThe Laboratory Technologist has been finally recognized as a key player in fighting diseases. The COVID-19 pandemic has elevated laboratory professionals out of the shadows and highlighted their importance in the management of mission critical results reporting that determines patient treatment and life-saving therapies.
Read MoreDo you know how long it actually takes to fully qualify a test or profile in your discipline? Have you calculated the time and cost of manual review activities by discipline. You might be surprised the time you spend on manual review activities that could be used for higher value generating tasks
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