Siemens Healthineers transforms patient testing with automation

Siemens Healthineers now offers Atellica Integrated Automation on the Atellica CI Analyzer, to consolidate 25 tasks typically handled manually by clinical laboratory staff. This offering redefines automation for clinical labs and has been shown to reduce the manual workflow steps laboratory professionals perform by 75%.

Traditional total laboratory automation uses a track to transport patient samples throughout the laboratory to sample preparation equipment and then onto connected analyzers for testing. Atellica Integrated Automation incorporates sample management, decapper, and sealer functionality within the Atellica CI Analyzer.

With Atellica Integrated Automation, laboratories with lower patient testing volumes or a finite amount of space in their laboratory now have access to automation capabilities incorporated primarily within high-volume testing or mega-labs.

Automation is increasingly important for labs of all sizes. With Atellica Integrated Automation, a single technologist can manage calibration and QC, daily sorting, and archiving processes in minutes — tasks that historically may have taken hours. Fewer repetitive, manual tasks enable laboratory professionals to reallocate their time to value-add or growth activities, such as training and mentoring employees, or quality control efforts.

Automating these processes also reduces waste, increases the number of samples a laboratory can run, and creates opportunity for laboratories to run a wider range of tests to support patient care as testing needs shift. Every time a patient sample is outsourced it creates obstacles for providing patients with the best care possible, including time delays, expense, and greater potential for errors. Optimized sample handling with Atellica Integrated Automation enabled 65% of samples to achieve faster turnaround times than competitor systems.

Atellica Integrated Automation also supports laboratories with high testing volumes. Both the Atellica Solution and the Atellica CI Analyzer provide standalone automation capabilities with Atellica Integrated Automation or they can connect to track-based automation for expanded efficiency and throughput.

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