From Pickup to Processing
A Guide to Streamlining Specimen Transport
Most of what goes wrong with a test result has already gone wrong before the sample reaches an analyzer, and transport sits squarely inside that window. A specimen that arrives warm, late, or unaccounted for isn't a delivery problem: it's a result problem, and usually a compliance one.
What's Inside
A landmark study of laboratory errors found that 61.9% occur in the pre-analytical phase: collection, handling, and transport. Yet almost every organization buys transport as a commodity. The kit is specified down to the tube and the assay validated against audited controls, then the specimen is handed to whoever quoted the lowest price per stop.
This guide is for the quality, operations, and finance leaders who own that call, whether you run transport for a clinical trial, a commercial or hospital laboratory, or an at-home and direct-to-consumer testing program.
In this guide you will learn:
Ten field-tested ways to streamline specimen transport, from building routes backwards from the shortest stability window to closing the data loop between the lab and the courier
Five questions that separate a healthcare logistics partner from a general freight operation with a medical page, including what to ask about temperature evidence and chain of custody
How to scale a transport network in three phases, from a single pilot route to nationwide, multi-mode coverage
What CLIA expects of your transport conditions, and when a courier needs a BAA under HIPAA
How Circulogene, Mirvie, PathGroup, and C2N Diagnostics run logistics as part of the diagnostic workflow with DS2
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