8 MAY 2024Laboratory Medicine: Efficiency as a Critical Factor for Market SurvivalBy Justine Montalvão, Team Leader Enterprise Services Consulting LAM, Siemens HealthineersW orking in the Brazilian laboratory medicine market for just over 20 years, I have witnessed several transformations in the sector. I've seen laboratories of all sizes, from small to large, and some aspects were common to most of them at the beginning of the 2000s, when I started my career in a multinational company: very sectorized environments, with little automation, many employees, poorly standardized processes and deadlines for delivering results that would certainly be considered unacceptable today. In addition, the number of manual tasks, from manually identifying collection tubes to paperwork maps and typing up results one by one, made the environment very prone to errors.With the increasing democratization of information and competitiveness, laboratories have had to work on strategies to differentiate themselves and improve efficiency. The last 15 years have been marked by a search for positioning vis-à-vis the end customer, consolidations between companies, and the consequent emergence of mega labs by a strong movement to modernize methodologies, integrate disciplines, and automate laboratories. In the aftermath, the global health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent pandemic has pushed laboratory medicine to adopt innovative techniques, positioning point-of-care methodologies Justine MontalvãoIN MY OPINIONIN MY OPINIONI have worked in the laboratory medicine market for a German multinational for 22 years, focusing on laboratory automation and information technology for the last 15 years. I graduated in Pharmacy and Biochemistry from the Federal University of Paraná in 2000, with a postgraduate degree in Lean Six Sigma Quality Management from the FAE University Center and an MBA in Project Management from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV).
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