Laboratory

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What to Do If You Receive an Inspection Citation

Receiving an inspection citation is stressful. It can also feel disorienting even for experienced lab managers who know their operation well. The instinct is often to respond immediately and defensively, to explain why the finding wasn’t as serious as it looks, or to fix the surface problem as quickly as possible and move on. None […]

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Scheduling Is a Compliance Decision. Most Labs Aren’t Treating It That Way.

For most clinical organizations, scheduling is an operational function whose primary focus is getting the right number of people in the right place at the right time. That definition isn’t wrong, but it’s incomplete. Every scheduling decision carries compliance weight, and in a regulated environment, the two can’t be cleanly separated. The problem is that

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How to Write an SOP That Works in the Real World

A well-run laboratory can have every compliance box checked including approved procedures, signed acknowledgments, and a complete document library. Unfortunately, this also means you can observe staff defaulting to workarounds the moment the inspector leaves. When that happens, the problem usually isn’t motivation or discipline but often the SOP itself. Most procedure documents are written

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Why Staggered Start Times May Be Your Organization’s Secret Weapon

Optimizations on the Road | Making the Most of Your Mobile Lab Operations

From 2020 onwards, largely due to Covid-19, we have seen a fundamental shift in strategy in the way we run clinical laboratories and an exponential growth in the use of mobile labs. Already used heavily for public clinics and blood donations, mobile labs have become a crucial part of the medical landscape when it comes

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