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Optimize Your Clinical Microbiology Workflow

Clinical microbiology laboratories are under increasing pressure to improve performance while managing growing operational complexity. Our Lab Optimization team helps identify opportunities and implement sustainable improvements.

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The Challenges Facing Clinical Microbiology Laboratories

Clinical microbiology laboratories face growing demands to improve turnaround time, efficiency, and consistency while adapting to operational change.

Common challenges include:

  • Growing test volumes with limited staffing resources
  • Pressure to improve turnaround time and consistency
  • Workflow variability across teams, shifts, or sites
  • Integrating new technologies, automation, and instrumentation

Maximize the Value of Your bioMérieux Microbiology Solution

Understand how your workflows, processes, and technology work together to identify opportunities and achieve your laboratory goals.

BROCHURE Understand Your Opportunities

Gain insight into workflows, capacity, and operational performance to identify improvement opportunities.

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BROCHURE Optimize Laboratory Performance

Implement targeted improvements that enhance efficiency, consistency, and turnaround time.

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How Lab Optimization Consultancy Helps Improve Laboratory Performance

  • Faster Turnaround Times

    Improve reporting speed and consistency through workflow optimization.

  • Workflow Optimization

    Reduce inefficiencies and improve laboratory workflow performance.

  • Space & Staffing Efficiency

    Optimize space, staffing, and resource utilization without increasing FTEs.

  • Successful Technology Adoption

    Integrate new bioMérieux instrumentation, automation, and workflow changes into daily operations.

  • Sustainable Performance Improvement

    Standardize workflows to improve consistency across teams, shifts, and sites.

  • Sustainable Performance Improvement

    Implement lasting improvements that support efficiency, adoption, and value realization.

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We've helped labs cut blood culture turnaround times by

24–48 hours,

expand testing capabilities, and embed lasting improvements.1

From Insight to Measurable Results

Real-world Lab Optimization Consultancy engagements have demonstrated:

  • Significant reductions in turnaround time
  • Improved workflow consistency
  • Increased throughput with existing resources

Read how laboratories have applied these approaches in real-world settings.

Case Study Achieved 16-27 Hour Faster Turnaround Times

A MicroScan vs. bioMérieux comparative assessment highlighted the impact of workflow design and integrated microbiology solutions.

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Case Study Reduced Urine Culture Turnaround Times by 12-24 Hours

Helping a large academic medical center improve urine culture workflow and reduce TAT by optimizing processes around VITEK® 2 and MALDI-TOF systems.

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Case Study Reduced Urine Culture Turnaround Times by 15+ Hours

Implementing time-based culture workflows around VITEK® 2 and VITEK® MS (MALDI-TOF ID) delivered sustained performance improvements.

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Case Study Improved Performance in a Difficult-to-Staff Laboratory

Workflow optimization and VITEK® MS PRIME implementation helped improve efficiency, accelerate results, and support a sustainable operating model.

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Case Study Improved Performance in a Growing, Difficult-to-Staff Laboratory

Lab optimization improvements enhanced efficiency and accelerated results through the integration of bioMérieux's VITEK® MS PRIME and middleware solution.

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Meet the Team

Built by Lab Experts. Trusted by Lab Leaders.

Our Lab Optimization team combines deep clinical microbiology expertise with proven process improvement methodologies, including Lean Six Sigma principles.

With experience across 750+ laboratory engagements and an average of 15 years of clinical microbiology experience, our consultants understand how to apply proven approaches within the realities of a clinical microbiology laboratory.

Every laboratory is different. Our consultants work alongside your team to understand your goals, challenges, and operating environment, developing practical recommendations tailored to your laboratory's unique needs.

Mario Molina portrait.

Mario Molina
Sr. Director, Lab Optimization

16 Years
Lab Experience
18 Years
As a consultant
Nicholas Aldred portrait.

Nicholas Aldred
LCS 1C
h Lab Optimization Consultant

10 Years
Lab Experience
11 Years
As a consultant
Mary Blythe portrait.

Mary Blythe
MT, (ASCP)
Lab Optimization Consultant

15 Years
Lab Experience
9 Years
As a consultant
Jenny Harder portrait.

Jenny Harder
MLS, (ASCP)
Lab Optimization Consultant

18 Years
Lab Experience
2 Years
As a consultant
Anna Keiger portrait.

Anna Keiger
MLS, (ASCP)
Sr. Lab Optimization Consultant

4 Years
Lab Experience
11 Years
As a consultant
Keisha Street portrait.

Keisha Street
MLS, (ASCP)
Lab Optimization Consultant

25 Years
Lab Experience
1 Year
As a consultant
Doug Harrington portrait.

Doug Harrington
MLS, (ASCP)
Principal Lab Optimization Consultant

16 Years
Lab Experience
20 Years
As a consultant

When to Engage with our Lab Optimization Team

Our Team supports laboratories when:

  • Planning for growth or capacity expansion
  • Evaluating automation or workflow changes
  • Experiencing delays or inefficiencies
  • Standardizing operations across sites
  • Preparing for new instrumentation or system upgrades
  • Planning for laboratory expansion, relocation, or consolidation

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References

1. Unpublished data obtained through internal evaluations. Data on file at bioMérieux.