Laboratory Consultancy

Strategic Lab Optimization, Aligned to Your Organization.

From turnaround-time pressures and staffing shortages to technology integration, your lab’s needs are unique. Our microbiology lab consultants partner with you to assess workflows and co-develop practical, microbiology-led steps that align with your organization’s priorities.

Why Choose bioMérieux for Lab Consulting Services?

No two clinical microbiology labs are alike—especially when it comes to the challenges they face. These can range from staffing shortages, long-outdated procedures and processes, integrating new instrumentation within workflows, and the pressure to deliver faster turnaround times. Many labs also struggle to align daily operations to broader institutional goals like antimicrobial stewardship (AMS), sepsis reduction, and overall quality improvement.

Lab Consultancy addresses each lab’s unique challenges by providing customized, hands-on support that goes beyond generic consulting or vendor-driven advice. Our consultants are microbiologists and former lab leaders who understand the realities of diagnostic environments. Through structured observations, stakeholder interviews, and performance data analysis, our team builds actionable roadmaps designed to optimize lab operations and clinical impact.

Laboratory Consulting Capabilities

We strive to help deliver lab optimization through teamwork. Our approach is thorough, personalized, and results-driven, helping your lab reach its full potential with the people, technology, and resources it already has.

Faster Turnaround Times for Better Outcomes

We help labs reduce delays in critical diagnostic workflows, especially in identification (ID)/antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST). By identifying inefficiencies and implementing targeted improvements, our lab consultants aim to support your sepsis management and AMS efforts.

Result: Labs have seen 24–48-hour reductions in blood culture turnaround times (TAT), enabling faster clinical decisions and better outcomes.¹

Workflows that Fit Your People

Our lab optimization team helps streamline processes by observing how work is actually done, identifying bottlenecks and standardizing practices across technologists. This reduces redundant steps, improves consistency, and helps alleviate staff burnout.

Result: Labs have eliminated unnecessary workload, reduced contamination rates, and improved throughput without adding complexity.¹

Your Space and Team at Their Best

We evaluate how personnel and physical space are being utilized and propose more efficient staffing and layout changes, always keeping in mind potential consolidation or expansion. These changes are made without increasing FTEs, making them sustainable and cost-effective.

Result: Labs have freed up space for automation, expanded testing capabilities, and improved team collaboration through smarter design.¹

Technology Integration Without the Disruptions

Our lab consultants support labs in adopting new instruments, automation platforms (e.g., WASP), and informatics tools. We help ensure that technology is effectively integrated into and across workflows, minimizing disruptions and maximizing the return on investment (ROI).

Result: Labs have successfully implemented automation that aligns with their operational goals and deliver measurable improvements in lab performance.¹

Meaningful Change that Lasts

Our laboratory consultants don’t just deliver a report; they provide ongoing support through planning, change management, and post-engagement follow-up. Improvements are implemented in a realistic, phased approach, ensuring they stick and evolve with the lab.

Result: Labs have embedded new practices into their culture, maintained improvements over time, and aligned operations with broader hospital initiatives like sepsis reduction and AMS.¹

Who We Support: From Hospitals to Public Health Labs

Our team has helped many hospitals and healthcare systems transform their lab’s routine challenges into performance excellence. Read some of their stories below.

Fairbanks Memorial Hospital

Learn how bioMérieux improved a hospital’s capacity and efficiency despite staffing challenges from high turnover.

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Los Robles Health System

Learn how Lab Consultancy helped a health system overcome increasing sample volumes and staff shortages.

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Texas Children’s Hospital

Read how lab consulting combined workflow optimization and new technology to deliver faster TAT.

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Tampa General Hospital

Discover the process improvements that led to a significant decrease in TAT for urine cultures at this hospital.

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Built by Lab Experts. Trusted by Lab Leaders.

Our lab consultants bring an average of 15 years of clinical microbiology experience and include former lab managers, section supervisors, and senior technologists. Their collective expertise spans ID/AST workflows, automation, lab informatics, and antimicrobial stewardship alignment, and has helped over 600 labs optimize their operations. Depending on your lab’s unique needs and challenges, you are assigned the lab consultant for the job that needs to be done.

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References

1. Data based on internal studies. On file at bioMérieux.