LABOTIX® Automation to Upgrade Laboratory Automation at Maccabi Healthcare Services
Peterborough, Ontario (PRWEB) December 05, 2011
Maccabi Healthcare Services is one of the leading, comprehensive providers of health care in Israel. Maccabi has 1.85 million members, over 6,000 physicians, more than 300 branches and clinics, medical laboratories centralized in one Mega Lab, and more than 320 specimen collection sites serving close to 15,000 patients daily. The new Maccabi Healthcare Services automation system will be one of the largest in the world, designed to process more than 54,000 specimens in a 12-hour period. The LABOTIX open automation system will sort specimen containers to decappers, automated aliquotters, direct-track sampling analyzers, robotic analyzer interfaces, recappers, specimen managers and refrigerated storage managers.
John Gustafson, President and CEO of LABOTIX Automation, released the following statement: “We are pleased to continue building upon our long-standing partnership with Maccabi to design the most advanced automation line in the world.”
LABOTIX continues to partner with Gamidor Diagnostics as its distributor and servicing partner in Israel. Gamidor provides systems, chemicals, reagents and services to clinical and research laboratories in Israel and provides laboratory automation solutions utilizing LABOTIX open architecture laboratory automation.
About LABOTIX
LABOTIX Automation, Inc. is a leader in open architecture laboratory automation and offers a broad range of innovative devices for hospitals and reference laboratories. With customers around the world, LABOTIX provides the most flexible, open automation solution for today’s clinical laboratory. Open automation allows the laboratory to sort and deliver all specimens to all analyzers from any vendor, anywhere in the laboratory. While other vendors focus on analyzers and reagents, LABOTIX is focused solely on laboratory automation and efficiency, empowering the customer to choose the best of breed analyzers for their specific needs. Combining these analyzers with LABOTIX’s powerful user-defined process control software enables laboratories to have an optimized system designed to evolve with their patient care needs. LABOTIX has been automating laboratories for over 19 years, with installations around the world. LABOTIX has the experience, expertise, and reliability necessary to meet the needs of any size laboratory.
About Gamidor
Gamidor Diagnostics provides systems, chemicals, reagents and services to clinical and research laboratories in Israel. Gamidor Diagnostics is part of the Diagnostic Business of Gamida for Life, a group of companies with direct operations in Israel, Turkey, Bulgaria and the UK engaged in the R&D, manufacturing, marketing, sales and service of in-vitro diagnostic systems. The marketing efforts of the sales team are enhanced by the company’s own experienced team of service engineers providing high quality technical service at both customer-site and our in-house laboratories.
