Randox Laboratories is an international clinical diagnostics company offering innovative solutions to laboratories worldwide. Their tagline is “Revolutionising Healthcare Through Continuously Improving Diagnostic Solutions”. In this post I will be investigating how viable and durable their innovative techniques are, and potential flaws in their solutions.
I think offering this service online is innovative. Being given the opportunity to fill in personal health details online, provides a sense of freedom and ease of use that wouldn’t be there in a standard health care system. Filling in details online, prior to a visit to the clinic, cuts down waiting time and increases the efficiency of patient handling in the clinic. So more time can be spent treating and screening patients than sitting in a waiting room filling out personal details.
I think the system could be described as convenient and innovative to those who are comfortable with a web 2.0 system. Although, a negative to the system is that not everyone is computer literate and some users may have trouble with the online system. It should also be taken into consideration that not everyone has access to the internet. Also, with being based in Northern Ireland, it means that despite being an international organisation, their target audience is significantly reduced. For the purposes of blood sampling, patients would be required to attend a physical appointment in northern ireland, which is understandably not ideal for many international patients.
In summation, the idea itself is incredibly innovative but lacks practical solutions to actually make it a viable business venture. If the idea could be expanded upon, by opening physical health care centres in countries other than Northern Ireland, it could become a more realistic health care facility.
