David Savastano, Editor12.09.20
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for necessary improvements in the medical system. Developing rapid testing capabilities in one obvious area. Another need is improving sample testing.
It is estimated that the UK’s National Health Services (NHS) could save as much as £250 million annually if it could make sample testing and pathology more efficient.
With that in mind, the NHS began a pilot project in the North East of England with Quality Hospital Solutions (QHS) and PragmatIC to improve pathology services and sample testing. The result is SamplePod, a novel reusable sample transportation and tracking system.
Andrew Turner, managing director of Quality Hospital Solutions (QHS) and inventor of SamplePod, said that SamplePod resulted from a request from an NHS pathology lab in the North East of England to QHS.
“The NHS hospital and lab needed a way to automatically track thousands
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