What Digitalization Can Do to Transform Routine in Healthcare!

DIGITAL PREANALYTICS PROCESS

In this article you will discover valuable information why Tracie Healthcare Solutions combined with Greiner Bio-One`s pre-barcoded tubes is essential for modern healthcare. You will also gain an understanding of how the following benefits are made possible:

Making positive changes in working life for healthcare workers.
Improving the hospital and clinic experience for patients.
Reducing errors by increasing safety & quality of care.
Assisting efficient workflows.

“Without doubt, digitalization has transformative power in the healthcare sector…”

Henk Ruven, clinical chemist at the St. Antonius Hospital in the Netherlands, leading expert in laboratory medicine and Greiner Bio-One Talks Podcast guest.

Fewer Errors, More Efficiency

A new era in preanalytics

Hospitals are busy places, patients coming in and going out, patients and their families needing reassurance and diagnoses often urgently required. This can be a strain for healthcare workers working in a fast-paced environment.

Combining Greiner Bio-One’s pre-barcoded tubes with the Tracie Healthcare Solutions helps improve the preanalytical phase of healthcare. Preanalytics covers the entire phase leading up to testing the patient specimen.

This includes:

Preparation
Labelling
Patient interaction
Specimen collection procedure
Transport

Numerous persons, functions and facilities can be involved that could have an influence on the sample quality – streamlining the management of the entire process by using the latest technology can help reduce the impact of human error.

The difference it can make for you and your patients

Digital tracking solution

Accuracy and efficiency

Enabling precision in the entire diagnostic process, beginning with preanalytics by minimizing manual steps: the uniquely pre-barcoded tubes contain crucial tracking information that can be unequivocally assigned to a patient.

By using with Tracie, it is also possible to be sure of taking the correct samples in the right order of draw. Even if an expired tube is selected by mistake, a warning is given in the software, detected by recognizing the batch number.

Streamlined workflows

With a pre-barcoded label and corresponding software, it is no longer necessary to manually label a specimen tube or manually enter data. This not only saves time, it reliably prevents human error.

“56% of patient identification errors due to specimen labelling”*

Improved patient safety

By scanning specimen tubes and digitally registering in the software, misidentification of specimens and resulting mix-ups is reliably prevented and full traceability ensured. Furthermore, the software system can guide the user through the sample collection procedure, indicating not just which parameters and tubes are needed, but also in which order – essential for best sample quality**.

Correct sample assignment and prevention of sample rejection at the lab means a reliable basis for fast, accurate diagnoses for the patient.

Better preanalytics, better outcomes

By setting new standards and enabling higher expectations in healthcare, preanalytics is becoming ready for the future: leveraging state-of-the-art technology and making it routine, the healthcare sector can adapt to a new generation of patients.

Source of Information

* Cornes M, Ibarz M, Ivanov H, Grankvist K. Blood sampling guidelines with focus on patient safety and identification - a review. Diagnosis (Berl). 2019 Mar 26;6(1):33-37. doi: 10.1515/dx-2018-0042. PMID: 30315735.

** Center for Phlebotomy Education: The Order of Draw

Meet Tracie Collect

The digital future of preanalytics is here

Tracie Collect supports the process of taking biological samples, enabling a tracked, controlled, and secure pre-analytical phase. This simplifies everyday life of healthcare professionals and improves the quality of medical care.