Improving blood sampling

In these years, the hospital system faces a number of challenges. Challenges that Vejle Hospital would face when they started a collaboration with 3PART. Improved diagnostics through blood tests meant that the number of blood tests in the community increased. This put pressure on bioanalysts, who were often reported sick with physical injuries or stress due to the increased workload. In addition, patients became frustrated that they experienced a degraded service. More than 10 million blood samples are taken every year in Denmark at around 50 kroner a piece. That’s a total cost of about half a billion kroner, and the amount increases by about seven percent each year. There is no evidence that the trend is reversed. On the contrary, a number of factors in the future will contribute to even more blood tests being taken. The growing number of blood tests also meant that the technicians lost expertise because they did the same work over and over again. The work on blood tests was thus both resource-intensive and a professional and professional challenge in the hospital laboratories – also at Vejle Hospital. The challenge for 3PART was to create such deep insights into the workflows and procedures around blood sampling at Vejle Hospital that new opportunities and innovative solutions for the future could be seen.