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Current environment is not conducive to business
expansion |
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Demands for increased testing volumes
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Decreasing reimbursements
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Increasing financial constraints on lab
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Desire to expand outreach business
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78% of lab managers cite labor
shortage and lack of time as major issues |
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Labor costs comprise the largest
portion of laboratory budgets
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Increasing competition for
qualified staff
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Staff focused on time-consuming,
repetitive tasks
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Overtime can create increased
employee dissatisfaction
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Expectation to comply with rapidly
changing requirements is challenging |
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Constantly changing expectations of
quality and efficiency
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STAT requests increasing in volume
and complexity
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Pre-analytical and post-analytical
timing increasingly critical
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Need to meet and exceed changing
healthcare standards
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Current IT unable to streamline processes |
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IT processes unable to alleviate manually intensive
tasks
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Present technology unpredictable and often poorly
interconnected
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Inflexible features, lack of user control
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Lack of ongoing training and education
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Middleware