Metropolis Healthcare Ltd, India’s only multi-national chain of diagnostics center, has entered into a partnership with Gurunanak Hospital in Bandra to provide a wide array of sophisticated medical testing services with faster turnaround times. The alliance with Gurunanak Hospital is a part of the rapid expansion project Metropolis has undertaken under its HLM (Hospital Laboratory Management) services ambit.
Through the HLM partnership, Metropolis Healthcare Ltd would avail the lab area of Gurunanak Hospital and perform testing within the lab premises. The expert diagnostic testing will be performed on fully automated systems by trained technologists. The partnership will help Gurunanak Hospital achieve greater turnaround time and also saves the cost and time to set up a full-fledged, technologically advanced laboratory. Metropolis Hospital Laboratory Management is an integrated end–to-end Hospital Management System that provides relevant information across the hospital to support effective decision making for patient care, hospital administration and critical financial accounting, in a seamless flow.
It helps reduce the delivery time of lab results by approximately 80% as compared to manual workflow. The partnership will help Gurunanak Hospital eliminate manual process, reduce duplication, and post results instantly facilitate medical record for clinical retrieval. By interfacing with a wide array of advance instruments in the lab, Metropolis HLM service reduces the staff and time dedicated to manual data entry and specimen tracking. The system provides real-time status of each lab study, allowing doctors to estimate time of delivery without interrupting lab staff as they work.
Further, Metropolis Hospital Laboratory Management enables automated import of data, dramatically reducing the likelihood of data-entry errors. Likewise, full integration with the electronic medical record ensures unadulterated results are delivered to clinicians, without data loss or incompatible formatting.
Says Ameera Shah Patel, CEO and Executive Director Metropolis HealthCare Ltd, “The turnaround time for reports plays a critical role in hospitals; it becomes a matter of life and death if the reports don’t reach doctors at the right time. Hence in such cases it becomes imperative to not only offer results at the right time but also maintain accuracy and efficiency. Metropolis HealthCare Ltd can leverage on their expertise and offer world class diagnostic services to the patients of Gurunanak Hospital. Professional laboratory management by our highly qualified team of pathologists and medical technologists ensures increased profits, higher returns and better efficiency. Whether you are an existing laboratory or a new laboratory we assure highest quality of standards.”
Metropolis has many national firsts to its credit: It was the first laboratory to introduce HIV testing, branch DNA technology and real-time sequential detection systems to India, and first to offer turnkey laboratory management services for hospitals and stand-alone labs there.