San Diego, October 29th / PRNewswire / -- QuidelOrtho Corporation (Nasdaq ticker: QDEL), a leading global provider of diagnostic solutions, released the 62nd episode of its Science Bytes podcast, discussing how to use AI and best practices in informatics to make laboratory operations more efficient.
Laboratories are facing an increasingly complex working environment and a growing demand for testing. In the past, data in laboratories was often scattered across different systems, creating information silos. Laboratories need methods to integrate this data and to accelerate clinical decision-making. Informatics is a key tool for improving efficiency, performance, and data accuracy, which also has a practical impact on patients waiting for test results.
This episode is hosted by Josh Casey, and our guest is Rodney Guzman, the Vice President of Software Engineering at the QuidelOrtho Global Informatics Platform. He discussed how to utilize structured informatics to transform results from different laboratory systems into meaningful clinical knowledge.
Key points:
- Clinical laboratories face staffing challenges, including a lack of professionals capable of managing complex testing scenarios.
- AI is expected to optimize detection usage, eliminate duplicate detections, and reduce bottlenecks in the workflow.
- However, before implementing these, the underlying laboratory data must be standardized, reliable, and traceable; otherwise, the AI system will not be able to provide reliable insights.
- Informatics can be used to integrate, organize, and present datasets in a consistent manner.
- Integrating this data is particularly beneficial for applications such as transfusion medicine, as the complex combinations of data in these scenarios can affect clinical decisions.
- In any laboratory environment, AI serves as a complement to clinical experts; it is still the laboratory professionals who are ultimately responsible for interpreting the results and making final decisions.
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