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How Your Clinical Laboratory Can Add Value to Healthcare

The challenges facing clinical laboratories today are numerous. Whether it’s fluctuations in healthcare reimbursement, workforce shortages or shifting paradigms in patient care, adversity is seldom in short supply for most facilities.

How will you turn these obstacles into opportunities? It’s time to change the healthcare conversation—with your voice. In this collection of curated resources, you’ll find insights you can use to inspire action and add value to your patients, your healthcare institution and your community.

Accelerate Care with a Menu That Matters

Provide the right patient insights at the right time with our clinically impactful menu addressing prevalent and expensive health risks.
  • MDW Aids Early Sepsis Detection in the ED Beyond SIRS and qSOFA

    New analysis from the pivotal study shows that patients with abnormal values of MDW at presentation have increased odds of sepsis.

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  • Prostate Health Index (phi) and Biopsy Decision Management

    View data from the first large-scale multicenter trial evaluating the impact of phi testing on patient management and prostate biopsy decisions.

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  • Monocyte Distribution Width Adds Value to Sepsis Detection

    Learn about a clinical study evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of monocyte distribution width (MDW) for early sepsis detection.

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  • Access High Sensitivity Troponin I Scientific Literature

    Learn how one practice reduced patient mis-classification in the ED and explore findings about the performance and accuracy of the Access hsTnI assay.

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Bring the Benefit of Automation to All

Deliver accurate results with fast, consistent TATs, fewer pre-analytical errors and more efficient workflows designed to fit the needs of any-sized laboratory.
  • Driving Operational Efficiency in the Laboratory

    Read about one health system’s ability to manage a sample volume increase of 100%, without adding FTEs. Learn how automation and autoverification also helped reduce errors and costs, while improving TATs.

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  • Multicenter Evaluation of the AU5822 Chemistry Analyzer

    Examine evidence from this post-hoc study from three institutions that shows the AU5822 analyzer’s consistent analytical performance, linearity and correlation among three independent institutions. 

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Deliver Greater Insights Through Clinical Informatics

Connect people and technology. Save time, increase productivity and inform your decision-making.
  • Driving Operational Efficiency in the Laboratory

    Read about one health system’s ability to manage a sample volume increase of 100%, without adding FTEs. Learn how automation and autoverification also helped reduce errors and costs, while improving TATs.

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  • Greater Efficiency, Faster TATs for a Low-volume Lab

    Find out how cloud-based middleware empowered technicians to focus their time on outliers and critical results and enabled a lab to deal with resource gaps without sacrificing service quality.

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  • Lab Reclaims a Day’s Work with DxONE Inventory Manager

    Read about one laboratory's ability to reduce the amount of time dedicated to laboratory reagent inventory management from one day a week to one hour a week, so they can focus more on QC.

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Unlock Hidden Value Through Performance Partnership

Leverage Danaher Business System to drive positive economic and cultural change to improve patient care.
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    Cultivating a Culture of Continuous Improvement

    Discover how one laboratory embraced change management to improve patient satisfaction and shorten turnaround times through Lean processes.

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    Improving Efficiency by Streamlining Workflow

    Find out how a lab improved workflow, reduced process steps and gained TAT consistency using Kaizen-based tools.

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  • 5S Events and Continuous Improvement

    Discover how 5S events—dedicated times for sort, straighten, shine, standardize and sustain activities—helped one laboratory save 239 hours a year.

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  • Hospital Reduces Patient Wait Times

    Discover how a hospital identified the need for change to improve laboratory order processing and reduce patient wait times using a Lean approach.

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