
Harnessing digital technology for laboratory diagnostics
The future clinical laboratory is the stuff of science fiction. Services like touchless inventory control and auto-validation of testing are gradually becoming commoditized, with built-in quality control features to ensure high standards.
With these innovations, lab staff now have more time to focus on the growing range and complexity of testing options, and physicians will seek their counsel regularly in coming years.
IT meets patient needs and laboratory goals

Inventory control

POCT management

Felicity Dempsey, former POCT manager at the St. James Hospital, Dublin, found digitalization the solution to many challenges.

Data management

Susan Dawson, laboratory administrative director at the Swedish Covenant Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, introduced data management digitalization in 2002.
Flexibility and the future
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- The statements by Siemens Healthineers customers described herein are based on results that were achieved in the customer’s unique setting. Since there is no “typical” hospital and many variables exist (e.g., hospital size, case mix, level of IT adoption) there can be no guarantee that other customers will achieve the same results.