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    Increasing Workforce Productivity in the Diagnostic Laboratory

    How Can the Lab Keep Up with Demand?
    5min
    Published on April 10, 2018
    Quote Sivert Stenman Laboratoriemedicin Dalarna Sweden

    Executive Summary

    Graphic Macro Trends Driving Need Improve Workforce Productivity

    Macro Trends Driving the Need to Improve Workforce Productivity

    Increasing Pressures on Diagnostic Laboratories

    Graphic 35 Percent Inefficiencies Workforce Productivity

    Improving Workforce Productivity

    Measuring Workforce Productivity

    People and Processes

    Graphic Comparison Laboratory Staff Movement Workflow Optimization Automation
    Graphic Online Mobile Training Saved 60 Percent Time
    Quote Jeff Appleyard NHS Tayside Workflow Optimization

    NHS Tayside Workflow Optimization. Jeff Appleyard, Siemens Healthineers

    Nonautomated laboratory Testing includes manual error prone arduous tasks

    Case Study: North Memorial

    Nonautomated laboratory Testing includes manual error prone arduous tasks

    Case Study: NHS Tayside

    Focusing On People Processes Hardware and Digitalization Improves Clinical Lab Productivity

    Case Study: Klinikum Frankfurt Höchst

    Summary

    1. FierceHealthcare. Hospital CFOs need more data on labor costs. (https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/finance/hospital-cfos-need-more-data-labor-costs)

    2. The Lewin Group, Inc. The value of diagnostics innovation, adoption and diffusion into health care. 2005. (https://dx.advamed.org/sites/dx.advamed.org/files/resource/Lewin%20Value%20of%20Diagnostics%20Report.pdf)

    3. CLMA. The laboratory personnel shortage. (http://www.ascls.org/images/Government_AffairsGAC/AHRA.pdf?_sm_au_=iVVN0T5trV0TssT0)

    4. Health Services Research. Predicting Changes in Staff Morale and Burnout at Community Health Centers Participating in the Health Disparities Collaboratives.2008 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2517268/)

    5. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine. Challenges of a negative work load and implications on morale, productivity and quality of service delivered in NHS laboratories in England. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3994349/)

    6. Reuters Health News. Reimbursement cuts on lab tests pressure U.S. lab firm shares. (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-medicare/reimbursement-cuts-on-lab-tests-pressure-u-s-lab-firm-shares-idUSKBN1DK25J)

    7. Murphy Leadership Institute. Research brief: Eliminating wasteful work in hospitals improves margin, quality and culture (http://www.cs.odu.edu/~cpi/old/cpi-s2004/statag/murphy-wastefulwork.pdf?_sm_au_=iVVN0T5trV0TssT0)

    8. Elsevier. Nurse staffing levels and the incidence of mortality and morbidity in the adult intensive care unit: a literature review. 2012. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1036731412000471)

    1. * The outcomes obtained by the Siemens Healthineers customer described here were realized in the customer’s unique setting.

      Since there is no typical laboratory, and many variables exist, there can be no guarantee that others will achieve the same results.