title: Doing more with less in the lab.
abstract: Automation offers laboratories the ability to improve patient care, enhance client and employee satisfaction, and increase workload capacity while maintaining a cost-effective department. "The overall objective of any organization's automation project is simple--to do more with less, better," states Davis. "We know our future is on the information systems side," Clarke states. "Vendors' investment in the development and creativity of automation is what is going to drive the future of the laboratory." "Implementing the automation solution was absolutely the right thing to do for Sacred Heart Health," says Wright. "With the transition complete, we are pleased with the results. All we want now is more automation that will enable us to do even more with what we have."
authors.affiliation: Misys Healthcare Systems, Tucson, AZ, USA.
authors.forename: Elinore
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Craig
mesh_terms: D002984:Clinical Laboratory Information Systems; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States; D016526:Workload