Welcome to the Lab Improvements Virtual Booth

Lab Improvements develops and manufactures solutions that automate high risk or repetitive tasks in medical laboratory environments. Our pathology solutions include SlideTrack and BlockTrack, devices that allow labs to automate the sorting and filing of pathology slides and blocks into long term storage.

SlideTrack is a benchtop system that automates the sorting and archiving of pathology slides. The operator loads up to two hundred slides at a time then walks away, allowing SlideTrack to process independently. Each slide is scanned for barcodes, key characters, unique identifiers or even colours. This information is used to sort, divert or archive slides into long term storage magazines. A good example of this is pediatrics samples needing to be kept fifty years can now be separated from negative cytology slides only needing to be kept for five years. The location of each slide is stored as a part of a larger database so that individual slides or entire cases can be reliably located and retrieved. Once a storage magazine is full, it can be placed into traditional long term storage boxes/infrastructure. A single SlideTrack device is capable of processing upwards of 400+ slides per hour, multiple devices can be tied together to serve labs seeing high daily volume or looking to process a large backlog of samples.

BlockTrack is an add-on to the SlideTrack system that allows for the automated filing of pathology blocks into long term storage. Blocks are placed into magazines that are then loaded into BlockTrack. Each block is scanned for barcodes, key characters, unique identifiers or colours. These magazines can now be placed into long term storage with the location of the magazine and block now recorded. BlockTrack can process upwards of 1000+ blocks per hour.

This information from both Slide and BlockTrack can then be handed over to an existing histology tracking system or managed as a part of our own standalone slide/block management and inventory system. As a standalone device, staff are able to use our interface from their work terminals to view case history and place retrieval requests. Our specimen management system requires key information be entered before the location of the specimen is revealed, ensuring total traceability and integrity of the cases. Admin staff can view or be alerted of overdue samples should they not be returned in time, reference back to see who requested, retrieved the specimen, know where the slides were being sent and who to contact for more information.

The four major advantages of automating block and slide filing are:

  • Greatly reduce staff time spent sorting and filing slides and blocks, allowing them to focus on higher yield activities in the lab.
  • Eliminate the potential of human filing errors that would delay slide and block retrieval or result in a lost sample
  • Manage the histology library to ensure total traceability, something that is missing from existing tracking systems and archiving methods.
  • Every long term storage box is filled to capacity which results in a much higher overall storage density.
Contact Us:

2140 E Bank Dr B107
Peterborough, ON K9J 7B8

Phone: (705) 910-0518

 
Our Booth Manager:

Alex Bushell
Business Development • Co-Founder
[email protected]