Horiba Medical

Horiba Medical is one of the world leaders in the hematology market present in over 110 countries covering all five continents, with its internationally recognized instruments. Also, Horiba Medical is well established and globally accepted for its unique automation solutions, i.e., HELO, for high-end medical laboratories across the globe.

HELO (Horiba Evolutive Laboratory Organization) is a modern mélange of innovative design, robust manufacturing standards, undisputed efficiency, unflinching accuracy, standardization, and bullet-proof patient data safety, embedded with advanced technology analyzers, i.e., Yumizen H2500/H1500, having well-established and unbeatable analytical performance in hematology diagnosis.

Customers across the world are moving toward HELO automation workflows experiencing difference in capacity, efficiency, and reliability on results. HELO is a promising answer to the constantly evolving and upgrading work-flow of medical laboratories with increasing pressure from regulatory bodies and accreditation agencies to maintain quality and accuracy without any compromise.

High-end laboratories have each step in the sample life cycle from collection to dispatch of reports automated, thus assuring testing of the highest quality. Automated checks and balances are introduced by our globally diverse team of engineers and clinical subject experts that ensures utmost diagnostic accuracy and reliability of services desired. The solution not just addresses customer’s routine needs but also assist them in optimization of TAT, reconfiguration of floor space, and ease of reagent storage and minimized reagent wastage.

P8000, a specially designed middleware platform acts as a brain of HELO that performs automatic validation, based on bespoke configurable rules like sample re-run, reflux to confirm results of critical samples, smear preparation or performing reticulocyte count. This also helps to save time, and least human intervention leading to improved TAT. QC rules are also configurable and error-free MIS reports.

HELO comes along with Horiba’s accreditation-assistance program, which has been developed in accordance with ISO:15189 certification. Unique automated slide preparation system (SPS) can easily smear and stain blood sample with high throughput of 120 slides per hour. SPS has a specially engineered flexibility to regulate staining protocols, i.e., MCG, Wright, or Wright Giemsa.

An inbuilt automated conveyor T6000 has multi-configuration options having special monitoring system of rack transfers to provide optimized flow and accurate results.
Digitization of slides with RBC and WBC sub-classification and an optional remote review software application along with a body fluid additional application is an added functionality of choice available to its users.

To sum up, HELO is a uniquely optimized amalgamation of artificial intelligence and digital technological advancement. HELO is an unbeatable promising solution of future laboratories that requires reliable automation and digital technologies that can enable clinicians and pathologists to spend more time with patients, allowing technology to do the routine operations.