Management of Errors
The way a patient’s sample travels from the collection point to the laboratory exposes it to many potential errors that can lead to, false diagnostics, slower treatment administration, decreased customer comfort, and additional laboratory costs.
The most common points where problems occur before the sample gets to the laboratory include sample collection, labeling, sample handling, sample transportation, or even sample loss. Therefore, technologies that enable efficient and reliable ways of collecting samples and managing them throughout the journey from collection to the laboratory will be greatly valued in the future.
EXAMPLE:
MedNAIS: „Unique smartwatch for preanalytical phase management and exact sampling time tracking. Specially designed for medical nurses responsible for sample collection procedures with integrated smart assistant based on the recommendations of the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) for good practices in phlebotomy.“
Expert Statement Oliver Hayden:
So blood collection is quite essential here. If you, for example, I mean these are well-known phenomena if you stagnate the blood too long if you take a cannula that is too small, then you have, like in finger prick, you have blood that is too traumatized and you have blood cells that are so pre-aggregated. What we need to be able to map a chain is a simple, simple solution to get to a sample that is as little traumatized as possible.