Case Study: Quest Diagnostics reduces laboratory errors with Wolfram Mathematica

Quest Diagnostics cuts lab errors from 10–15 a day to 2–3 a year with Wolfram

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 vendor Wolfram and used Mathematica to address this.

Using Wolfram's Mathematica, Quest Diagnostics developed effective process-control algorithms to explore and monitor system performance. This solution drastically minimized the laboratory's error rate. The measurable impact was a reduction in errors by four orders of magnitude, decreasing from 10-15 errors per day to just 2 or 3 errors per year.

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