Industry sponsored workshops
1.00 - 1.15pm Bury Theatre, The New Alegria 2 from Sebia with Janice O'Shea – Lifting Autoimmunity and Infectious Diseases to the next level of automation
The Alegria 2 is a new fully automated analyser for autoimmunity and infectious diseases.
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1.15 - 1.30pm Bury Theatre, X-Lab with Angus Whitham - Eliminating paper requests from the lab - an Order Comms System for 'hard-to-reach' requesters
Despite strides in recent years to digitise lab-to-lab referral and reporting workflows, it’s thought that over 35 million test requests per year are still referred and reported on paper to labs across the UK and Ireland. Lab referrals from screening programmes, tertiary care, community care, private organisations, and other ‘hard-to-reach’ referrers are left behind by mainstream Order Comms Systems (OCS) on the market, leaving labs to manually process and report up to 10% of their incoming work on paper.
X-Lab, the company behind Labgnostic, have developed a new OCS called LabReach which is currently being piloted at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Foundation Trust and Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. LabReach’s vision is to remove paper from the lab for good and has been designed to improve turnaround times, reduce costs, and increase patient safety. LabReach is set to open up digital access to labs, and permanently shift how lab referrals happen across the UK.
Join us to learn more about LabReach and how it’s improving our pilot labs and the lives of the people who work within them.
1.00 - 1.30pm Wellington Suite, QuidelOrtho with Eoin Madigan - The power of POCT in improving patient pathways
POC testing offers a much faster solution to rule out – or rule in – diseases near to the patient, reducing turnaround times from hours to minutes. This provides quicker assessment of patients, allowing hospitals to streamline patient management, optimising the use of resources for those most in need, and allowing low risk patients to go home to rest. Many POC diagnostic tests rely on established technologies, applying them in a user-friendly format to bring testing closer to the bedside and decrease turnaround time.
1.00 - 1.30pm Churchill Room, Randox with Barry Maguire - Realising IQC Software Potential
A brief look at how laboratories are benefiting from the use of IQC software for advanced statistical analysis. Focusing on features that provide automation to timely tasks such as validation of new IQC lots and IQC review reports. An easy to use, multi-disciplinary software, that can be customised to any laboratory large or small.