A recent Medline Clinical Lab Roundtable convened lab and supply chain leaders from around the country to discuss lab challenges , trends , market insights and best practices .

During the two-day forum , system executives focused on laboratory operations and capabilities , exploring a wide range of topics from staffing and operational alignment to emerging

technologies . A few key roundtable takeaways include :

Impact of Standardization and Automation on Lab Lab leaders all want to improve

workflow and job satisfaction among staff . To do it , they ’ re looking to standardization and automation technology , including AI .

“ Many of the topics we discussed seem to roll up to how