The direct costs of a glass-slide workflow are easy to see on a budget line. The indirect costs are harder to see. FTE hours spent on retrieval, assembly, transport, and misfiling; TAT delays caused by physical logistics; and staff time lost to avoidable rework can have a substantial impact on lab efficiency, productivity, and costs. Read more.

At 500 or more slides per day, a glass slide workflow is not just inefficient — it is a structural capacity ceiling. The high-volume labs that are breaking through that ceiling without expanding their workforce are not managing their way out of the problem. They are engineering their way out of it. Read more.

Every pathology lab has at least one person whose departure would cause a service disruption. Usually more than one. The question for a lab manager is not whether staff will leave. The real question is whether the laboratory's workflows are robust enough to absorb that departure without creating a diagnostic crisis. Read more.