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Supporting Lab Efficiency with the QC Dashboard

1 July 2025

Newsletter: July 2025

Supporting Lab Efficiency with the QC Dashboard

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Maintaining high standards of Quality Control (QC) is critical to the reliability of results. Rule-based alerts and routine reviews can help you easily identify qc violations and act quickly to maintain the high-quality output your clients can rely on, but maintaining a clear view of your laboratory QC statuses can be challenging without a monitoring process in place. To support laboratories in this effort, Skylims provides a built-in QC Dashboard for monitoring QC activities efficiently from a single view.

What does the QC Dashboard Offer?

  • Overview of your Lab's QC status: View all flagged issues for your laboratory site in one place
  • Detail Lookups: See the details of an issue on the dashboard while investigating a specific case
  • Quick Navigation: Access related records without needing to close the main view, including Control Groups, QC Lots, and QC Result details
  • Visual Insights: Timeline graphs of QC results are available for flagged analytes, allowing quick access to visual trends when investigating issues

The QC Dashboard presents the following four categories of QC oversight, removing the need to manually track QC events.

QC Review Overdue QC Lot Expiration Rule Violation Chem Code Run Frequency Exceeded
Missed QC graph reviews. Regular reviewing assists with the prevention of cumulative errors. Alerts for expired and soon-to-expire in-use lots. Analytes violating supported Westgard or custom rules. Highlights analytes that missed QC testing based on expected frequency.

Lab Management Impact

Incorporating the QC dashboard into users' daily routines can significantly reduce time spent on QC issues and manual tracking, while improving result reliability. The timeline below illustrates the impact of consistent QC monitoring at two different labs, enabling more proactive actions, such as more frequent calibrations, which led to fewer violations.

Average QC Reaction Time Chart

The graph shows a decrease in the average QC reaction time, with a sharp decline over time, indicating significant improvement in response efficiency driven by greater QC visibility.

Coming Up Next

In the next newsletter, we'll unpack each of the dashboard categories in detail, explore how to customise monitoring to your lab's priorities, and share insights from labs using the Skylims QC monitoring tools in high-throughput scenarios.

Support Information

If you would like to review your current QC configuration, our support team is ready to assist. We can offer a guided walkthrough, help configure your QC settings, or provide tips tailored to your specific lab setup.

We're here to help ensure the system is working at its best for your laboratory. Whether you're refining your QC strategy or setting up for the first time, don't hesitate to contact us.

Email: support@mukon.co.za
Tel: 012 450 0240

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