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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?
read moreThe 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.
read moreThe 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.
read moreConsider 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.
read moreThe 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.
read moreApplication 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.
read more5 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.
read moreHow Tolerant is Your Lab of Lost Specimens
There are many outreach labs regularly losing specimens and consider it a normal by-product of their business. It’s not that they want to lose specimens, but in the hectic day-to-day of business, it somehow just becomes acceptable.
read moreMCE’s Streamlining Function Improves Medical Specimen Tracking
A feature in MCE known as “Streamlining” allows labs to easily track specimen transfers between couriers or multiple locations. . By integrating transfer tracking, Streamlining makes MCE a more robust tool for accurately tracking a specimen through each step of the journey to its final destination.
read moreIs Your Outreach Lab Being Competitive?
As a small-to-medium sized business, your lab faces some tough competition. Larger labs with more resources already have systems in place that allow them to track and trace specimens, automate route planning and reporting, and easily process pick-ups and deliveries with greater accountability.
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