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Why Smartphones Aren’t a Good Choice for Medical Courier Workflows
Many medical laboratories look for every opportunity to save on costs, and that makes sense. Who wants to spend more if you can avoid it and do better on your bottom line? However, when it comes to running mobile applications for specimen tracking, courier management and lab outreach, going cheap on your mobile hardware costs can be an unbelievably expensive mistake.
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Medical Courier Operations – Every Outreach Lab and Hospital is Unique
When it comes to medical courier operations, MCE understands that outreach labs and hospitals do things as different as the samples they collect. All labs and hospitals have their own special requirements for routing, specimen collection/transportation, supply deliveries, and management in general. Truly, no two systems are alike.
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Lab Outreach Courier Management: An Easy Automated Solution
When we think of real-time delivery tracking with maximum efficiency, most of us think of big e-commerce and parcel delivery companies that bring goods to our doorstep. But medical courier pickups and deliveries are even more important because the speed and accuracy of transporting specimens can be the difference between saving a life and a catastrophic delay or medical error.
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Clinical Expectations for Proof-of-Delivery for Specimen Pickups
If your customers can receive pickup/delivery notifications for personal online purchases, how much more important is it to provide pickup/delivery notifications for patients’ medical samples? Are these samples any less important to track?
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The Evolution of MCE
In preparation for the roll-out of MCE 3.0 (which includes improved screen layouts and other functionalities) in 2021, we thought it would be interesting for outreach medical labs to understand how MCE came to be and what can be expected in MCE 3.0. Today, MCE has matured into the nation’s premier specimen tracking and courier management system for outreach medical laboratories and hospitals.
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The History of Barcodes in Healthcare & Its Use for Improving Specimen Tracking
Barcodes didn’t really take off in the healthcare realm until the 2000s. Take a look at this timeline to get a sense of how this relatively simple technology has reduced errors and improved the healthcare experience for both providers and patients, particularly when compared to tracking the same information on paper.
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Consider the Legal Implications of Lost Specimens
Not all lost or mixed-up specimens will result in medical malpractice suits, but the ones that do can be costly. This SVMIC article goes on give real world scenarios to explain what types of lab malpractice suits lead to a monetary loss.
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The 4 C’s of Successful Lab Outreach
If you run an outreach lab, you are well acquainted with the fact that you need reliable courier services to deliver specimens, samples, and supplies. To be successful, your lab outreach courier program needs the four C’s: collection, communication, consistency, and competence.
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Application Programming Interfaces (API’s) Make MCE a More Robust Specimen Tracking and Courier Management System
MCE developed an Application Programming Interface (API) for two unrelated systems to exchange information for specimen tracking or courier management. Customers who wish to automate some facets of MCE may use our APIs to accomplish various tasks.
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5 Critical Reasons You Should Track Outreach Lab Supplies
If supplies are flying in and out of your lab with no accountability, you are losing money. You may be buying more than you need, providing customers with excessive supplies, losing deliveries, or dealing with other inefficiencies.
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