title: Time-tracking system enhances clinical laboratory efficiency.
abstract: Lab information system is a lean, mean time-tracking machine. Reorganizing around a laboratory information system (LIS) allowed the primary care Chester County (SC) Hospital to develop a model of streamlined efficiency that ranks very favorably against peer benchmarks in terms of productivity and cost-efficiency. Key components are "auto-merge" and "auto-release" features that dramatically speed up lab test processing, but raised eyebrows among clinical lab staff.
mesh_terms: D002984:Clinical Laboratory Information Systems; D003363:Cost Control; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013022:South Carolina; D018511:Systems Integration; D013996:Time and Motion Studies