Current innovation in laboratory technologies is due to the availability of automation and development of analytical instruments, distributed across all disciplines of laboratory medicine. Future health care and laboratory systems will have to deal with similar challenges as we face today, which may be summarized by the concept of “do more with less.” The majority of tests will increasingly be performed in consolidated, high-throughput laboratories, because high analytical performance and cost efficiency cannot be fitted by current Point of Care Testing (POCT) technologies or other diagnostic systems.
#Synergy pathology lab drivers
These goals are drivers for technological and management development of a centralized, area, network or hub and spoke laboratory systems, depending on the healthcare organization. Higher automation quality and ever more diagnostic field integration will lead to higher productivity by means of an improved throughput. The centralized clinical laboratory will offer an improved number of diagnostic testing services, where drivers for change will involve chronic disease clinical care for an increasingly older population, new emerging diagnostic technologies and personalized medicine. In the near future, comprehensive central or area laboratories of consolidated assay testing and larger laboratories will be most probable. Routine central laboratory has developed increasingly automated and effective instrumentation, including clinical chemistry, immuno-chemistry, common haematology testing and even very complex assays, executed using high throughput instruments following sophisticated automation.
The interaction between laboratory professionals and clinicians will be enriched with new methods of evaluation of patient needs in the internet of things and mobile Health worlds, where boundaries between POCT and central laboratory or hospital and primary healthcare will no longer exist and where all data can be shared and disseminated among stakeholders in the healthcare system.ĬENTRALIZED, AREA, NETWORK OR HUB AND SPOKE LABORATORY SYSTEMS The use of POCT devices does not only require technological considerations for the production and management of acceptable tests possibly managed by central laboratory, but also implicates a shift in diagnostic practice across all health organizations. POCT test introduction in clinical practice should be assessed by an outcome-based policy to avoid adverse events, failure to diagnose providing appropriate timed treatment. At the same time Point of Care Testing (POCT) site of patient care allows for timely medical assessment, which can lead to improved patient outcomes, more effectiveness and patient satisfaction.
Central or area laboratories will offer an improved number of diagnostic testing services, where drivers for change will involve chronic disease clinical care for an increasingly older population, new emerging diagnostic technologies and personalized medicine.
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