SelectScience InterviewsClinical Diagnostics
Utilizing technological advancements in the laboratory to improve patient care and outcomes
3 Jan 2025
In this video, Dr. Constantine Kanakis, a Transfusion Medicine Fellow at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, explains how workforce shortages and poor communication with clients, partners and patients are some of the biggest challenges facing laboratories at the moment. Dr. Kanakis describes how patient care and outcomes are impacted as a result of this, and explores how technological advancements, such as AI and automation, could lead to a higher quality of work and better patient safety.
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Clinical ChemistryBiochemistry (or clinical chemistry) involves the analysis of bodily fluids using chemical tests. Techniques used include HPLC, chromatography, spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, immunochemical, electrophoresis, turbidometric / spectrophotometric assay, MRI and ISE analysis. Tests are often carried out on plasma or serum but urine (urinalysis) and fecal specimens are also processed.CLINICAL24CLINICAL24 is a global conversation, hosted by SelectScience for the medical laboratory profession and all those that support it. The purpose of CLINICAL24 is to highlight current lab challenges, and to explore the technology solutions to overcome them.