Collaborative Lab Solutions

The last several years have challenged the healthcare industry in unprecedented ways. Your health system is likely grappling with at least one—if not all—of these nationwide problems:

Up against these challenges, where can you look to improve and enhance your service offerings without further compromising your cash flow—or patient care? One area to consider is the laboratory. Is it an asset? How can you leverage the laboratory to get a high ROI—financially, and in terms of patient outcomes and satisfaction?

70% of today’s medical decisions depend on laboratory test results, showing the important role clinical laboratories play in today’s healthcare system.³ But with an ever-growing list of laboratory tests, high laboratory costs, and a constantly changing healthcare landscape, it can be difficult to keep your lab running efficiently.

Quest Diagnostics Collaborative Lab Solutions (Co-Lab) helps you look at your lab in a new light. Health systems can save an average of 8%-15% each year on their total laboratory spend by collaborating with a lab solutions provider to optimize lab operations.⁴

With broad and deep expertise across every aspect of diagnostics and hospital laboratory management, we provide a road map to help health systems reduce expenses, allowing you to allocate more resources to provide quality patient care—bringing the Triple Aim of improving patient experiences, improving the health of populations, and reducing costs to your organization.