White paper · 2026 edition

62% of lab errors happen before the analyzer.

Your instruments are not the bottleneck. Your workflow is. A working guide to fixing the pre-analytical phase, standardizing before you automate, and scaling without a rebuild.

Written for lab directors, laboratory COOs, and health system IT leaders.

Cover of the LabOS white paper, Sample Management: Operational Strategies, 2026 edition.
Sample Management: Operational Strategies 26 pages · PDF · The Lab Efficiency Roadmap

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35%

reduction in turnaround time is achievable with workflow automation and real-time tracking.

90%

of delayed results trace back to process inefficiencies, not instruments.

85%

of laboratories are projected to run a cloud-based LIS by 2028.

Sources cited in full inside the white paper

What you will walk away with

Six chapters, no vendor theory. Each one ends in something your team can act on this quarter.

  • 01Total Laboratory Automation: how to build the foundation
  • 02The digital ecosystem: the LIS and beyond
  • 03Integrity and standardization: upgrading the chain of custody
  • 04Scalability: growing without friction
  • 05From strategy to execution: building your laboratory roadmap
  • 06The end-to-end sample management lifecycle, mapped

Includes a five step implementation roadmap and the nine KPIs that prove the work paid off.

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The case for change

You deserve better than a workaround.

Re-keying the same result into a second system. Hunting for a specimen the log swears is in the freezer. Explaining to a clinician why a result took nine hours when the run itself took forty minutes.

None of that is your team underperforming. That is an LIS built for a smaller, slower lab, one that never grew up. Every workaround your staff invented to keep it running is a cost you are already paying, just not on any invoice.

The labs pulling ahead did not buy more instruments. They removed the handoffs, standardized the vocabulary before automating anything, and made the LIS carry the weight.

This white paper documents exactly how they did it.

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About LabOS

LabOS is a cloud LIS built for clinical laboratories. Three decades of LIS engineering, hundreds of labs worldwide, covering chemistry, microbiology, anatomic pathology, digital pathology, and genetics. Tailor-made, not templated.

Platform

LabOS

A configurable cloud LIS. Instrument and EHR integration, automated compliance workflows, multi-site support, and 24/7 service from people with clinical lab backgrounds.

Add-on

LabMD

The Physician Portal. Referring clinicians place orders and retrieve results directly, without your team acting as the switchboard.

Add-on

LabWay

Phlebotomist and Courier Management. Collection routes, field tracking, and chain of custody that holds up outside the building.

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