20 articles

Laboratory & Diagnostics

Lab queues, results, radiology, and diagnostic reporting workflows.

Laboratory & Diagnostics

A Scaling Playbook for Small and Mid-Size Hospital Laboratories

Growing laboratories usually buy capacity before diagnosing the constraint that actually limits them. This playbook covers finding the true bottleneck, standardising before expansion, and designing hub-and-spoke testing that clinicians can live with.

Dr. Omar Siddiqui

Jul 16, 2026 · 11 min read

Laboratory & Diagnostics

Home Collection Sample Logistics and Cold Chain Control

Home collection sample logistics decide whether a specimen is still testable when it arrives. This guide covers stability windows, transport temperature logs, excursion handling, batching tradeoffs, and courier accountability.

Samir Iqbal

Jul 7, 2026 · 10 min read

Laboratory & Diagnostics

Connecting the Laboratory: An Interoperability Guide for Hospital Teams

Analyzers, the EHR, reference laboratories, billing, and the patient portal all consume laboratory data differently. This guide covers ownership decisions, message design, send-out testing, and what interfaces need after go-live.

Priya Nandakumar

Jun 18, 2026 · 12 min read

Laboratory & Diagnostics

Microbiology Culture Reporting and the Hospital Antibiogram

Microbiology culture reporting works in stages. This guide covers preliminary versus final reports, sensitivity panels and selective reporting, building a cumulative antibiogram, stewardship feedback, and critical result communication.

Nikhil Barot

Jun 17, 2026 · 11 min read

Laboratory & Diagnostics

How to Build a Safer, Faster Laboratory Queue Management Workflow

A step-by-step guide to managing laboratory demand from order entry through specimen collection and processing. Learn how visible states, clinical priority, and reliable handoffs reduce waits without compromising safety.

Dr. Kavita Menon

Jun 16, 2026 · 11 min read

Laboratory & Diagnostics

Point-of-Care Testing Governance for Hospital Quality Teams

Point-of-care testing governance covers device inventory, operator certification, connectivity so results reach the record, QC on handheld devices, correlation with the central lab, and a clear answer to who owns POCT quality.

Dr. Shalini Deshmukh

May 28, 2026 · 10 min read

Laboratory & Diagnostics

Managing the Laboratory Test Catalogue and Rate Cards

The laboratory test catalogue is a governed asset. This guide covers test codes, panels versus profiles, specimen and container mapping, tariff and rate cards by payer, and versioning changes without breaking historical reports.

Samir Iqbal

May 8, 2026 · 10 min read

Laboratory & Diagnostics

PACS and DICOM Radiology Integration: A Hospital IT Guide

A practical guide to PACS DICOM radiology integration: modality worklist, storage commitment, HL7 order and result flow, accession matching, image access from the EHR, and archive and retention planning.

Nikhil Barot

Apr 18, 2026 · 11 min read

Laboratory & Diagnostics

Structured Lab Results and Critical Values: The Trends Reshaping Diagnostics

Structured results are becoming essential for clinical decision support, patient portals, and cross-branch care. Explore the trends driving safer critical-value workflows and the governance hospitals need to adopt.

Zainab Farooq

Apr 7, 2026 · 10 min read

Laboratory & Diagnostics

Histopathology and Cytology: Building a Digital Workflow

Anatomic pathology does not behave like clinical chemistry. This guide covers grossing and cassette tracking, block and slide inventory, synoptic reporting, second-opinion review, and why AP turnaround and QC need their own model.

Dr. Shalini Deshmukh

Mar 29, 2026 · 11 min read

Laboratory & Diagnostics

Laboratory KPIs That Change Decisions: A Metrics Deep Dive

Most laboratory dashboards report too much and decide too little. This deep dive covers the indicators worth maintaining across turnaround, pre-analytical quality, critical communication, and corrections.

Samir Iqbal

Mar 17, 2026 · 11 min read

Laboratory & Diagnostics

LIS Barcode Specimen Tracking: A Hospital Implementation Guide

How to barcode a hospital laboratory end to end: accession numbering, label printing at collection versus central, scan checkpoints, aliquot and reflex handling, and chain-of-custody visibility when a sample goes missing.

Samir Iqbal

Mar 9, 2026 · 10 min read

Laboratory & Diagnostics

Preventing Sample Collection and Labelling Errors in Hospitals

Most laboratory errors happen before the analyser. This guide covers patient identification at the draw, order of draw, tube fill and haemolysis, bedside labelling, rejection criteria, and how to make rejection data drive change.

Nikhil Barot

Feb 17, 2026 · 10 min read

Laboratory & Diagnostics

Laboratory Quality Control: A Practical Westgard Rules Guide

A working guide to laboratory quality control: setting the mean and SD, reading Levey-Jennings charts, choosing Westgard multirules by test precision, run rejection policy, and handling an unacceptable EQA result.

Dr. Shalini Deshmukh

Jan 28, 2026 · 11 min read

Laboratory & Diagnostics

Lab Report Turnaround Time: A Best-Practices Checklist for Hospitals

Turnaround time improves when hospitals measure the right intervals and remove delays across the complete testing process. Use this checklist to strengthen speed, reliability, and accountability without sacrificing quality.

Arjun Mehta

Jan 14, 2026 · 8 min read

Laboratory & Diagnostics

NABL Accreditation Documentation for Hospital Laboratories

NABL accreditation documentation is a working system, not a binder assembled before assessment. Here is the document hierarchy, the competency and calibration records assessors ask for, and the document control that holds it together.

Samir Iqbal

Jan 8, 2026 · 11 min read

Laboratory & Diagnostics

Six Laboratory Workflow Automation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Most laboratory software problems are configuration and governance failures rather than product failures. These six recurring mistakes explain why go-lives stall and what to do differently before the first busy morning.

Dr. Anika Bose

Dec 9, 2025 · 10 min read

Laboratory & Diagnostics

Closing the Gap Between Lab Orders and Billing: An Integration Case Study

This case-study-style article follows a hospital network that connected laboratory orders, performance, and billing. See how workflow redesign reduced leakage while protecting urgent care and patient trust.

Mariam Sheikh

Nov 18, 2025 · 9 min read

Laboratory & Diagnostics

The ROI of a Laboratory Information System: A Practical Cost Analysis

Laboratory software business cases fail when they rest on vendor projections instead of the hospital's own registers. This analysis shows how to build a baseline, price total ownership, and defend the numbers a year later.

Rehan Qureshi

Oct 28, 2025 · 11 min read

Laboratory & Diagnostics

Radiology vs Laboratory Report Workflows: Six Myths That Create Risk

Radiology and laboratory reporting share important safety principles, but their workflows are not interchangeable. This comparison challenges common assumptions and shows where a unified diagnostics platform should preserve meaningful differences.

Dr. Faisal Ahmed

Sep 9, 2025 · 8 min read