Beckman Coulter’s new DxONE Workflow Manager enables low-volume labs to improve TAT

Beckman Coulter has released its DxONE Workflow Manager, the first and only cloud-based middleware offered by a major IVD organization, designed to help low-volume laboratories deliver timely results for patient care by enhancing consistency, accuracy, and efficiency. Laboratories today are under increased pressure to manage costs and resources while balancing increasing test volumes. With a limited number of middleware solutions on the market available to support low-volume laboratories, DxONE fills an industry need to help these laboratories streamline workflow and maximize staff time.  With DxONE Workflow Manager, laboratories are able to standardize workflows, automate processes, and consolidate information. Technologists can manage samples by exception using auto verification, meaning only those samples that fall outside predefined ranges require manual review. Standardizing auto-verification rules and automatic reflex testing promotes consistency, and integrating quality control processes supports testing accuracy with less workflow burden.

The system features an intuitive interface designed for ease of use, featuring visual cues that facilitate rapid decision making. From a single screen, technologists get an at-a-glance view of ordering information and patient demographics. Comments and flags are readily visible, alerting users to required actions, based on laboratory-defined criteria. A sample-status overview feature directs immediate focus to items in need of attention. Patient-associated results are consolidated on one screen—organized in graphs and by historical data—strengthening the utility of information for operational and patient-care decisions. With the integration of DxONE Workflow Manager into their critical functions, laboratories can standardize and automate workflows across Beckman Coulter’s chemistry, immunoassay and hematology platforms. The release of DxONE Workflow Manager builds upon Beckman Coulter’s middleware solutions, which include REMISOL Advance for higher volume laboratories, and expands the company’s DxONE portfolio—a suite of informatics solutions designed to help laboratories improve their operational efficiencies.