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Making Home Sample Collection More Easy With The Phlebo App 

Published by: Preethi


The need for home collection of samples has become increasingly important, providing convenience for patients who are unable to visit a medical facility. However, several challenges are faced in this process. Coordinating the arrival of phlebotomists and patients can be a logistical hurdle. Accurate documentation, including recording collection time, managing payments, and capturing prescriptions, is crucial but can be prone to errors. Ensuring the safe and timely movement of samples from patients' homes to the laboratory while maintaining sample integrity adds complexity. Overcoming these challenges is essential to providing efficient and reliable home sample collection services.

 
The MocDoc’s Phlebo mobile/web application is designed to streamline the process of home collection for test samples, ensuring efficient tracking and management. This application is utilized by the phlebotomist responsible for collecting test samples from patients' homes and facilitating their movement to the laboratories for testing. The Phlebo application plays a crucial role in maintaining the integrity and traceability of the samples throughout the entire process of home collection and subsequent testing, providing a reliable solution for healthcare professionals, and ensuring accurate diagnostic outcomes. This application is used in the pre-analytical phase of the sample lifecycle.
 
Home Collection Workflow
           
Upon receiving an order for home collection, the laboratory ensures that a skilled phlebotomist is assigned to carry out the sample collection. To ensure smooth coordination, the phlebotomist notifies the patient in advance regarding their arrival time for the collection process.
Using a mobile app, the phlebotomist records the precise time of collection. Following the successful collection, the phlebotomist proceeds to collect the payment from the patient. To keep the records up-to-date, the phlebotomist updates the payment status within the mobile app. Additionally, an image of the prescription is uploaded as part of the documentation process.

After securing the payment and recording all necessary information, the phlebotomist carefully collects the required sample from the patient. To maintain sample integrity and proper identification, the phlebotomist associates the sample with a specific barcode linked to the requested test. This barcode ensures accurate tracking and traceability of the sample throughout its journey to the laboratory.

The phlebotomist then takes responsibility for the safe and timely movement of the collected samples from the patient's location to the laboratory. Ensuring proper handling and adherence to transportation protocols, the phlebotomist guarantees that the samples reach the laboratory in a secure and reliable manner.
Upon completion of all assigned home collections, the phlebotomist generates batch sheets summarizing the collected samples and relevant details. These batch sheets, along with the collected samples, are submitted to the laboratory for further processing. The laboratory meticulously validates and accepts the samples, preparing them for analysis and subsequent testing procedures.

Benefits of using the Phlebo app to handle sample movement for home collection
 
The fundamental concept of home collection service aims to facilitate customers by enabling them to have their samples collected from their location, thereby alleviating the burden of visiting the laboratory for diagnostic testing. This service proves valuable, particularly for individuals who face challenges in terms of accessibility, bedridden patients, or circumstances like fasting sample collection.
 
This mobile application offers significant benefits to phlebotomists as it allows them to record essential aspects of sample movement such as time, location and patient prescription, all from a single interface. This feature eliminates the need for manual processes and reduces the potential for manual errors.
 
There are several advantages associated with utilizing the Phlebo app

  • Precise tracking and tracing of sample collection and movement leave no room for doubt regarding the validity of the collected sample. Consequently, any potential delays can be readily anticipated and mitigated, thereby avoiding manual errors that could negatively impact the test results.
  • Efficient quick billing and payment collection processes facilitated by the app, ensuring that accounts remain accurate and up-to-date with no outstanding dues.
  • Streamlined initiation of new test orders, which can be achieved with ease through the app’s user-friendly interface.
 
With a comprehensive tool, it is easy to facilitate seamless sample collection and movement for the home collection process. Ensure accuracy, traceability, and efficient communication, and experience the convenience and reliability of our advanced solution. Contact us and elevate your home collection process with MocDoc's Phlebo app.


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At MocDoc, we understand the critical role labs play in the healthcare system. Labs aren’t just about processing tests—they’re about providing accurate and timely information that can have a significant impact on patient care. With this understanding, we are committed to continuously delivering innovative solutions that improve laboratory efficiency and results management. Today we are excited to introduce a powerful new feature to the MocDoc Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS): the Abnormal/Critical Results filter in the result entry screen. These enhancements are specifically designed to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and overall user experience of pathologists and laboratory technicians.

Importance of Efficient Result Management in LIMS Systems

In the laboratory, Result management is one of the most important aspects of daily operations. Pathologists and lab technicians are often overloaded with information, spending a significant portion of their time reviewing and verifying test results. Abnormal and significant findings in these results require immediate attention, as they can indicate serious health issues that require immediate intervention. However, too much information can make it difficult to quickly identify and prioritize these important outcomes, potentially delaying patient care.

Recognizing this challenge, we developed abnormal/significant result filters to develop a systematic review of laboratory results. This new feature is designed to help laboratory technicians focus on where it matters most—those results that require immediate action.

The Main Advantage of Abnormal/ Critical Results Filters

The abnormal/critical results filter isn’t just a tool it’s a game changer for lab performance and patient safety. Here’s how it can change your workflow:

1. Research focus: prioritize what matters most.

The primary function of the abnormal/significant results field is to display only peripheral assumptions on the results entry screen. This focused analytical capability allows pathologists to rapidly identify abnormal and significant results without deviating from normal values. Epidemiologists have prioritized their research agenda by optimizing these important findings, ensuring immediate attention to the most urgent cases. This not only improves patient care but also significantly reduces the risk of oversight in the outcome process.
 
2. Increased efficiency: streamlining the verification process

One of the biggest challenges in a busy laboratory is time management. When the abnormal/significant results filter is applied, normal results are removed from the display, reducing the clutter of the results input screen. This streamlined process allows laboratory personnel to complete their certification and approval processes more quickly and efficiently. By reducing the time spent analyzing irrelevant data, the filter helps increase overall productivity, allowing lab teams to multitask without compromising accuracy.
 
3. Enhanced user experience: simplify complex workflows

We designed the Abnormal/Critical Results Filter with the user experience in mind. The streamlined diagnosis process makes it easier for users to identify potential issues and take immediate action. This user-friendly feature reduces the cognitive load on pathologists, who often work under pressure to deliver timely and accurate results. By streamlining and simplifying workflows, the filter helps create an efficient and stress-free work environment. This helps patients make better decisions and improve outcomes.

Experience the improvements firsthand.

The introduction of unusual/significant results marks an important step forward in our ongoing efforts to improve MocDoc LIMS. We believe this innovation will immediately benefit your lab operations by improving the speed and accuracy of results management.

We encourage all our users to try the new exclusive/important results and enjoy the resulting improvements in their daily workflow. Your feedback is valuable to us, as it helps us continue to refine and improve MocDoc LIMS to meet your needs. We are committed to helping you with the tools and resources needed to maintain the highest standards of laboratory practice.

Join MocDoc Community to Improve Patient Care in Hospitals

At MocDoc, we believe that technology should work for you, simplify complex processes, and allow you to focus on what matters most—delivering exceptional patient care. Unusual/significant results are just one example of how we are working to make this vision a reality.

Thanks for being a part of the MocDoc community. We look forward to hearing your thoughts and suggestions about this new feature. Together we will be able to continue to innovate and push the boundaries of what is possible in laboratory data management.

Explore the Abnormal/Critical Results Filter today and see how it can change the way you manage lab results.

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MocDoc’s Runnr mobile/web application is designed to handle the sample collection for B2B clients seamlessly. Handling a B2B sample movement can present multiple challenges. One challenge is the potential for delays and miscommunication, leading to samples not reaching the main lab on time. This can disrupt testing timelines and delay crucial results. Another is the manual nature of the process, which increases the risk of human errors such as misplaced or mislabeled samples. Additionally, coordinating logistics and ensuring proper documentation can be time-consuming and prone to inefficiencies.
 
Overall, the lack of a streamlined system for sample movement in the B2B context can result in operational challenges, delays, and errors impacting the efficiency and reliability of laboratory processes.
To overcome this, MocDoc has designed an application that is used by Runnr, the person who is responsible for collecting test samples from the partnered lab and submitting the same at the main lab. This application is used in the pre-analytical phase of the sample lifecycle.

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In the process of handling B2B sample movement between the main and partner labs, several steps are involved. Once a partnered lab requests a test with the main lab, a runnr is assigned by the main lab to facilitate the sample collection and transfer. The partner lab generates a "Test Requisition Form" (TRF) that contains all the necessary details of the requested tests. This form, along with the test sample, is then shared with the assigned runnr.

The TRF serves as a crucial document as it outlines the specific tests to be conducted on the collected samples. The identification of the samples is typically done through barcodes that link them to the associated patients, ensuring accurate tracking and traceability.

The assigned runnr is responsible for ensuring the safe and timely delivery of both the TRF and the test sample to the main lab. Upon receiving the samples, the main lab validates and accepts them, carefully verifying the information provided in the TRF. Subsequently, the main lab proceeds to process the samples for the requested tests, following the established protocols and procedures.

Efficient coordination and communication between the partner and main labs, as well as the diligent execution of the sample transfer process by the runnr, are essential to ensuring the smooth flow of samples and accurate testing outcomes.

Benefits of using the Runnr app to handle B2B sample movement

Using the Runnr app, the personnel designated to handle the sample movement between the partnered and the main lab can perform the process effectively, as it is easy to generate and share the TRF, and also to record progress from time to time. Here are a few benefits of using the Runnr app
 
●     The application enables users to generate and submit the TRF online, eliminating the need for manual paperwork and reducing the likelihood of errors such as missing records.
●     Barcodes are generated to uniquely identify test samples in relation to patients, streamlining the handling process and ensuring accurate testing. They facilitate the correlation of samples with the correct patients and requested tests, reducing errors.
●     Sample movement is closely monitored as the runnr transfers them between labs, enabling efficient tracking of delays and issues.
●     Prior to testing, a meticulous verification process confirms the correct sample. This adds an extra layer of quality control, minimizing errors and mix-ups.
The combined use of barcodes, monitoring, and verification enhances the overall accuracy and efficiency of the testing procedure.

Incorporating a dedicated mobile/web application for B2B sample movement has revolutionized the process, eliminating manual efforts and errors. Seamless generation and submission of TRFs, along with barcode identification, ensure accurate testing and correlation with patients. With real-time monitoring, delays can be promptly addressed.
Embrace the power of technology for efficient and error-free sample handling. Try the Runnr app today and streamline your B2B sample management. Unleash the complete potential of your laboratory with our Mocdoc LIMS Software.


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