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White papers document efforts to continually improve our laboratory systems and processes, and underscore our commitment to remain current with today's rapidly changing healthcare environment.

Available White Papers

The following white papers are currently available online.

An Overview of Lean Principles in the Laboratory

Describes how Mayo Medical Laboratories used Lean principles to accomplish the following goals:

  • Improved operational performance (faster testing turnaround time, decrease in costs and improved quality)
  • Reduced variability in operational performance
  • Operations management approach as an end-to-end discipline
  • Improved patient and employee safety
  • Improved employee morale
  • Reduction in development time for new tests
  • Reduction in testing defects and errors during new test development and implementation

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Lean Principles in the Laboratory: Efficient Laboratory Space Design

Describes how Lean principles were used to design a new laboratory from start to finish, accomplishing the following objectives:

  • Minimized specimen handling
  • Minimized employee walking distance
  • Increased overall operational efficiency

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Lean Principles in the Laboratory: Saint Marys Hospital - Inpatient Phlebotomy

Describes how Lean principles were used to address the uneven distribution of workload between phlebotomists, accomplishing the following objectives:

  • Fair, balanced, and equitable workload
  • Improved teamwork

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