System evaluations and RFP’s by LabMetrics Consulting lay the foundation for automation and improved LIS/LIMS selection processes
SYSTEM EVALUATION & RFPs
Is your LIS/LIMS architecture effective?
Our associates are some of the best in the business and can walk your organization and clinical lab through the complex and highly technical steps needed to evaluate the effectiveness of your LIS / LIMS architecture and give you key insights on how to create the kind of metrics that will enable your organization and clinical lab to achieve more efficient automation and increase lab revenues.
OUR SERVICES
LabMetrics Consulting can help your lab evaluate, understand and implement changes to close critical feature gaps.
LabMetrics Consulting will work with your organizations and clinical labs evaluation tools and requirements or can custom tailor a toolset and comprehensive requirements list from our extensive database ensuring critical feature gaps are not omitted. In addition, LMC provides complete financial modeling and comparative analysis and will tease out the subtle nuances that open source tools and non-technical firms struggle to provide—often these subtleties can tell a completely different story if not addressed.
Clinical Laboratory System evaluation and Selection Services
Educate and gain leadership support
Manage all vendor contact and coordination
Develop list of vendors based on requirements
Develop a comprehensive list of business and technical requirement
Conduct the detailed, evidence-based, formal request for proposal (RFP) process
The requirements and structured RFP process will tease out and identify functionality gaps including the very subtle gaps
LMC’s expertise includes detailed financial analysis of each vendors RFP proposal
Each vendor proposal is carefully evaluated & scored including detailed cost pro forma which clearly identifies each cost component
Cost savings can be linked to workflow improvements as part of the analysis
Develop and present the final report of findings to leadership
Used to assist making an informed, educated decision on selecting a primary vendor
After a primary vendor has been selected, an important next step is vendor due diligence
Reference checks
Site visits
Detailed configuration and design white board sessions, etc.
LMC assists organizations and clinical labs with this pre-contracting essential step, helping to arrive at the appropriate detail needed to develop final pricing and contract language
Infrastructure
Hand held, mobile phlebotomy and specimen collection
Future functionality / modules – AP, sub-specialties, outreach, billing, etc.
Reporting requirements
Workflow improvements
LMC can also assist or conduct the vendor contracting phase, often saving clients significant hard and soft dollars.