DragInfo – Born out of frustration in a Cerner over Citrix lab
The idea for DragInfo for Kit Lots came to me the same way most of my ideas do: Out of frustration after wasting hours of time doing a tedious, repetitive task. As part of a continuing effort to make our lab paperless, it was decided that we could eliminate several logbooks by appending each serology test with the respective serology kit lot and expiration date info. Management happily tossed the old logbooks into storage, patted themselves on the back and moved on. [ad name=”Google Adsense”]However the bench techs found that typing in “Kit Lot: RAND0M L3TT3RS AND NUMBERS” “Kit Expiration: 01/01/2024” “Cartridge Lot: …..” (you get the idea) for each and every test, enormously tedious. In fact many techs began to avoid the Serology bench like the plague fearing a rush of sero tests from ER would trap them in an endless carpal tunnel loop. …