Roche introduces navify Sample Tracking, its cloud-based digital solution helping laboratories mitigate the unique quality challenges that can occur during the diagnostic test sample journey, typically outside the lab setting, at WorldLab-EuroMedLab meeting 21-25 May in Rome, Italy.

The company is also displaying its recently introduced digital portfolio of navify Diagnostics1 that integrates data streams and uses insights to support operational efficiencies and clinical decision-making in healthcare.

The pathway to disease diagnosis requires tracking a patient's diagnostic sample from start to finish to support clinical decisions. There are no standardised end-to-end solutions to address this and most2 patient sample errors occur during the pre-pre-analytical (PPA) phase3 (i.e., collection,transport and reception of patients' blood (phlebotomy), urine and other test samples), which typically lies outside of the laboratory's control.

With navify Sample Tracking, lab managers can gain greater control by accessing and combining innovative applications to tailor and scale the solution to meet their lab's unique needs and it helps lab managers monitor and measure diagnostic test sample quality from the start -  before samples even reach lab premises. navify Sample Tracking directly interfaces the lab with PPA solution vendors and the laboratories' information system (LIS) and the middleware cobas infinity lab to provide fast, secure pre-integrated PPA innovation into any laboratory workflow.

"Labs have incredible possibilities today to digitally transform their operations using insights to improve quality and operational efficiencies, not just for the lab, but for the entire healthcare system. More importantly, patients benefit when we can reduce sample errors from the start. For example, if a new sample is needed due to an error, the patient may experience uncertainty waiting for decisions that are time critical and even possible delays in diagnosis or treatment," said Moritz Hartmann, Head of Roche Information Solutions at Roche Diagnostics. "By working together, as a strategic partner with deep healthcare expertise combined with our flexible, scaleable navify portfolio of integrated digital solutions, we believe labs can play a pivotal role in shaping the future of healthcare."

This easy access to innovative applications is made possible by the secure digital ecosystems convened by Roche. In navify Sample Tracking, one of several ecosystems5 offered by Roche to labs, the collaborators include: BinaryTech, Deigma, Etheclo, Inpeco, Smart4Diagnostics, Tracie Healthcare Solutions, and the newly-joined robominds, thereby covering the end-to-end PPA process. navify Sample Tracking is available to markets in Europe today with plans to expand globally next year.