Case Study: Quest Diagnostics reduces lab errors with Wolfram Mathematica

Modern Quality Control Measuring True Performance with Mathematica

Quest Diagnostics, a clinical laboratory, faced the challenge of modernizing its traditional quality control practices. Their research specialist, George Woodrow III, needed to develop real-time process-control systems to improve accuracy. They partnered with Wolfram and utilized the Mathematica software to address this need.

Using Wolfram's Mathematica, the team developed effective process-control algorithms and explored their true performance. The solution was also used to help colleagues understand how the new systems worked. As a result, Wolfram's technology was key in reducing the laboratory's error rate by four orders of magnitude, decreasing mistakes from 10-15 per day to just 2 or 3 per year.

Quest Diagnostics

George Woodrow

Research Specialist