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Reduce Recollection While Safeguarding Lab Revenue Through Scalable Specimen Stability

Safeguard Lab Revenue

Most lab networks don’t lose money because they “don’t know” stability windows.They lose money because those specimen stability windows aren’t enforced consistently across sites, handoffs, and routes. That’s when result quality degrades, redraws creep up, turnaround times wobble, delay in patient care occurs  and customer confidence starts to erode—one “out-of-spec” […]

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The Importance of Traceability When Transporting Frozen Samples

By Harshul Gupta (CTO), Keith Miller (CBDO), and Tulay Yucebas (Director of Continuous Improvement), Akuratemp LLC Transporting frozen samples between laboratories is one of the most technically demanding aspects of the diagnostic cold chain. When physician office collections include frozen specimens, those samples must be frozen immediately after collection, packed […]

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Leverage AI to Enhance Healthcare Supply Chain Efficiency

Our global supply chain benefits from intelligent solutions to ensure that temperature-sensitive shipments maintain their required temperatures throughout the journey from manufacturer to consumer. Anita Gardeva states that AI-enabled supply chain control towers are garnering particular interest; eighty-eight percent of healthcare executives identified AI as a ‘critical’ technology for their […]

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Why Specimen Rejection is a Concern Needing Attention

“An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure” This proverb suggests that a timely prevention attempt may avert pain later. As an example, we wear masks to avoid contracting the COVID-19 Virus. Similarly, thermally securing the healthcare transportation system will help safeguard the specimens for accurate results […]

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