Is the BioPlex 2200 System the Right Fit for Your Lab?

Does Your Lab Want to Improve Workflow Efficiency?

Poor workflow can lead to significant clinical laboratory challenges that delay testing and potentially impact patient care. Inefficiencies can also strain resources, increase the risk of human errors, increase operational costs, and hinder the laboratory’s ability to handle growing test volumes. Addressing workflow inefficiencies is crucial for maintaining operational effectiveness and timely patient care.

Utilize Multiplex Technology to Generate Multiple Results with a Single Test

Clinical laboratory workloads are challenged by the growing demand for laboratory testing. Moreover, clinicians increasingly depend on extensive test panels and reflex testing algorithms to accurately diagnose patients, adding additional workload and complexity. Meanwhile, the pressure to improve patient care by reducing result turnaround time is always present.

The BioPlex 2200 Solution

Multiplex technology generates multiple individual results with a single test, which allows test panels and reflexive algorithms to be completed without any additional testing. This greatly reduces technologist workloads and increases productivity.

Here's how the BioPlex 2200 System enhances operational efficiency:

• Generates up to 1, 400 results per hour (up to 1, 200 results per hour in the U.S.)
• Test panels can be completed with a single test
• Multiplex test reagents require only one calibration and control run for multiple tests
• Reflex results can be added to previously processed tests without re-running samples

Free up Limited Staff Resources for Value-added Operations

Staff limitations make it more difficult to meet the increasing demand for clinical laboratory testing. These shortages are expected to persist as the number of Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS) programs continues to decline.

The BioPlex 2200 Solution

The BioPlex 2200 System is easy to use and requires minimal hands-on time, which frees laboratory technologists to focus on complex activities that require their expertise. As a result, clinical laboratories operate more efficiently and productively.

Here's how the BioPlex 2200 System enhances staff efficiency and productivity in clinical laboratories:

• Minimal training requirements
• Ready-to-use reagents
• 8-hour walk-away time
• Direct plumbing solutions to extend walk-away time
• Integration with Total Lab Automation track lines
• Minimal maintenance requirements

Consolidate Multiple Analyzers onto One Fully Automated Multiplexing Analyzer

Laboratories often rely on many different test methods and analyzers to meet their testing needs. This complicates testing processes, creates workflow challenges, and takes up significant space.

The BioPlex 2200 Solution

The BioPlex 2200 System provides an extensive test menu for autoimmune, infectious disease, and specialty testing. This allows laboratories to consolidate multiple methods onto a single analyzer. Consolidation saves laboratory space, reduces patient sample handling, and minimizes demands on laboratory staff. Furthermore, consolidation provides an opportunity to eliminate inefficient manual and batch testing methods, which streamlines workflow efficiency.

The BioPlex 2200 System offers the following consolidation capabilities:

• Large on-board test capacity: 55 tests
• Compact footprint: 4’ 3” x 2’ 10” (130 cm x 90 cm)

Minimize Analyzer Downtime with BRiCare Remote Support

Clinicians rely on test results to make timely diagnoses and treatment decisions, so analyzer downtime can affect patient outcomes. This places additional strain on laboratory staff, who must shift their attention to troubleshooting, managing testing backlogs, and responding to clinicians' inquiries about unreported test results. Extended downtimes may even necessitate costly send-out testing, further prolonging turnaround times.

The BioPlex 2200 Solution

Minimizing analyzer downtime is crucial to ensure efficient laboratory operations, reduce costs, and deliver timely patient care. The BioPlex 2200 System uses BRiCare remote support which enables technical support experts to perform analyzer troubleshooting remotely. This relieves technologists from disruptive hands-on tasks, expedites analyzer troubleshooting, and minimizes downtime.

Here is how BioPlex 2200 BRiCare remote support allows laboratories to minimize the disruptions of analyzer downtime:

• Bio-Rad technical support teams are available 24/7 and can perform analyzer troubleshooting remotely
• Bio-Rad field service engineers expedite analyzer repairs by having diagnostic data prior to on-site arrival.

Does Your Lab Want to Reduce Operational Costs?

Clinical laboratories and healthcare services face significant challenges due to rising operational expenses. High costs limit the laboratory’s capacity to invest in innovative diagnostic technologies, which could improve patient care. Furthermore, rising laboratory expenses have a broader impact on healthcare costs, affecting the accessibility of medical care. The strain of these expenses can also compromise the long-term sustainability and viability of clinical laboratory services. To ensure that laboratory operations can continue to meet the increasing needs, it is crucial to remain focused on minimizing operational costs.

Reduce Send-out Testing Costs

The cost of send-out testing can be very high and may necessitate additional handling and administrative tasks for sample processing, test orders, and result management.

The BioPlex 2200 Solution

Performing testing in-house reduces reference lab expenses while further minimizing the additional operational costs associated with the management of send-outs. The BioPlex 2200 System allows laboratories to significantly expand in-house testing on a single fully automated analyzer.

The BioPlex 2200 System offers a comprehensive test menu that includes:

• Autoimmune assays
• Infectious disease assays
• Specialty immunoassays

Reduce Costs by Consolidating Test Methods

Laboratories employ a myriad of different test methods to manage the diverse needs of clinical diagnostics. Each test method requires specific equipment, reagents, and trained laboratory staff. This can result in higher costs due to increased resource demands, complexity, and operational redundancies.

The BioPlex 2200 Solution

The comprehensive BioPlex 2200 test menu allows laboratories to consolidate multiple existing test methods onto a single platform. In addition to reducing laboratory equipment and service agreement costs, consolidating test volumes on a single platform reduces cost-per-test and allows clinical laboratories to leverage economies of scale. Consolidation also optimizes staff utilization and improves workflow, leading to greater cost efficiencies.

Reduce Staff Costs with Increased Workflow Efficiency

Operating and maintaining multiple analyzers is inefficient for technicians compared to performing testing on a single platform. These inefficiencies translate to increased labor costs, particularly when utilizing methods that require substantial technician hands-on time.

The BioPlex 2200 Solution

Consolidating testing onto a single BioPlex 2200 System reduces staff costs by reducing the management and maintenance of multiple different test methods. Additionally, eliminating manual and batch methods optimizes staff efficiencies, which further reduces labor costs and improves productivity.

Reduce the Cost of Testing Failures with Automation and Multiplex Technology

Testing failures require costly retesting and create workflow challenges and delays. Reducing manual processes is crucial to minimize the risk of testing failures due to operator errors.

The BioPlex 2200 Solution

The BioPlex 2200 System leverages advanced automation capabilities, multiplex technology, and ready-to-use reagents to minimize hands-on testing processes and mitigate costly human errors. Additionally, multiplexing enables QC beads to be integrated into every test, to monitor assay parameters and detect potential testing failures. Integrated QC technology complements traditional quality control procedures and can identify potential problems immediately. This can minimize costly and disruptive reprocessing of large batches of patient samples.

The BioPlex 2200 System uses select QC beads to monitor the performance of every test and ensure the integrity of every result:

• Serum Verification Bead: Verifies the addition of serum or plasma
• Reagent Blank Bead: Identifies non-specific assay binding that could lead to erroneous results
• Signal Normalization Bead: Normalizes detector values
• IgA Verification Bead: Detects IgA deficiency in the Celiac IgA kit
• Internal Standard Bead: Monitors detector fluctuations

Does Your Lab Want to Increase Revenue?

Clinical laboratories face significant challenges due to declining revenue and testing reimbursement. These constraints can limit the laboratory's ability to invest in diagnostic testing capabilities, which are essential for expanding outreach and supporting advances in healthcare. Additionally, reduced revenue can impact the laboratory’s ability to maintain adequate staff resources, potentially leading to a decline in service quality. Improving revenue is crucial for maintaining high-quality patient care, enhancing diagnostic capabilities, and sustaining productivity.

The BioPlex 2200 Solution

The BioPlex 2200 System offers an extensive test menu that makes it easy to expand specialty testing reimbursement. Expanding laboratory services by adding additional in-house testing can help diversify revenue streams and attract new customers. This has the potential to counter financial challenges caused by reimbursement rate reductions.

The BioPlex 2200 System supports multiple opportunities to increase clinical laboratory revenue:

• Add specialty testing to improve revenue
• Expand outreach to attract new clinician testing
• Diversify clinical laboratory revenue streams

Does Your Lab Want to Improve Patient Care?

At the heart of every clinical laboratory decision lies a commitment to patient care. Delays in test processing and result reporting can impact treatment timelines and patient outcomes. Workflow efficiencies and resource limitations can compromise testing results and turnaround times, which can affect patient care. Overcoming these challenges is vital for upholding patient well-being, supporting healthcare providers, and ensuring the laboratory’s role in effective patient care.

The BioPlex 2200 Solution

Clinicians rely on fast result turnaround times to expedite treatments and improve patient outcomes. The BioPlex 2200 System offers an extensive test menu and uses multiplex technology to deliver a wide array of clinically relevant results with remarkable speed.

Key benefits include:

• Expand autoimmune, infectious disease, and specialty in-house testing
• Increase result confidence with integrated QC technology
• Improve clinician and patient satisfaction with rapid result turnaround time

Is the BioPlex 2200 System the Right Fit for Your Lab?

The BioPlex 2200 System provides a versatile solution that caters to the diverse needs of clinical laboratories, large and small. By utilizing advanced automation and multiplex technology, it can significantly enhance laboratory workflow efficiencies while minimizing operational costs. Its comprehensive test menu allows laboratories to expand testing capabilities and outreach.