HOW TO SURVIVE—AND THRIVE—IN A HISTORIC WORKFORCE SHORTAGE
7 strategies for redefining your lab workforce
Rates of sexual health conditions are rising across the globe – and creating bottlenecks in laboratories. Already under pressure to be more productive and innovative, every diagnostic lab must step up to expand testing and support care to create new value.
Where will you find the time? By identifying and eliminating the time traps in sexual health workflows.
Manual Processes and Error Prone Workflows
Different Collection Tubes
Different Sample Types
Disparate Instruments
Add On Testing
Workflows Across Departments
False Positives That Lead To Unneccessary Follow-ups and Procedures
False Negatives Due To Inadequate Sample Collection and Assay Performance
Find the steps that are consuming excessive time and limiting your team's capacity to expand testing and services
Screen for 14 high-risk HPV genotypes with 1 workflow. With extended genotyping, broken into ¥ strategic groups, you have new power to distinguish between new and persistent infections and help stratify high-risk patients for follow-up care.
7 strategies for redefining your lab workforce
It's time for laboratorians to start thinking like entepreneurs
A new opportunity to convert your health system lab from a cost center to a revenue driver.
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