Inpeco TIH (Traceability In Healthcare) designs and develops solutions for the full traceability of some key processes in Healthcare so assuring that any medical act is delivered in the right way and fully monitored. In order to achieve this ambitious goal a unique and univocal identification of both patient and product (e.g. sample tube, drug) is required, as well as the identification of the operator performing the intervention.

Despite the many efforts of the last years, errors in medicine are still common and source of injuries with severe and sometime fatal consequences. After the publication of the milestone “To Err is Human” many attempts have been done for improving this worrying situation but the incidence of errors is still unacceptable and it seems unrealistic to expect a further reduction just through operator training and introduction of virtual quality processes.

Automation, as already proven in many other areas, represents the most valuable support to avoid clerical errors and to support the operator in any phase of the job.

After a long lasting experience in Clinical Laboratory Automation, Inpeco TIH offers solutions for automating, controlling and tracing all actions performed on biological samples, from collecting to storing or retrieval, to prevent errors in sample identification and assuring a correct association patient to sample through the entire sample lifecycle.