Tools, Technologies and Training for Healthcare Laboratories

What Six Sigma Feels like... (and 2,3,4, and 5 too)
Sten Westgard
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Interesting study published recently in the October 2025 issue of Philippine Journal of Pathology: Mark Angelo Ang, Karen Cybelle Sotalbo, Quantifying Total Allowable Error Violations in Serum-Sodium Quality Control: A Computer Simulation Experiment of Two- to Six-Sigma Processes, October 2025, Philippine Journal of Pathology 10(2), DOI: 10.21141/P...
Are labs getting ensh***fied?
Sten Westgard
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The term "enshittification" is having a moment right now. It was coined in 2022 by the author/essayist Cory Doctorow, and named the 2023 and 2024 word of the year by the American Dialect Society  and the Macquarie Dictionary, but the publication of the eponymous book is bringing it to the fore. Enshittification is a on...
198 Questions: Where do I start with Six Sigma?
Sten Westgard
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We're still working through questions that came up in our Global QC Survey results webinar. Question: What's your advice to labs new to Sigma metrics? How to gradually transition? We're at an interesting time in the evolution of analytical Six Sigma metrics. Many of the major control vendors have built analytical Sigma metric calculations righ...
199 Questions: What can poor labs do?
Sten Westgard
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199 questions from the Beckman Coulter Webinar. Another common inquiry I have gotten over the last few months concerns the advanced technique of Six Sigma and its applicability in not-so-advanced laboratories. In other words, what can resource-challenged laboratories do with Six Sigma metrics? This question applies not only to hematology, but to an...
A new game: 200 questions?
Sten Westgard
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Driving Quality in Hematology: New Global Standards, Interlaboratory Data, and Real-World Sigma Metric Success | Beckman Coulter DX HGM .... https://app.livestorm.co/beckman-coulter-dx-hgm/driving-quality-in-hematology-new-global-standards-interlaboratory-data-and-real-world-sigma-metric-success?s=0b6c18b1-6f1e-4c6f-90ee-48cf88783f8d We had more th...
#CLINICAL24 celebrates the lab
Sten Westgard
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Happy to be part of the #CLINICAL24 celebration of laboratory professionals and laboratory medicine again this year. My own small contribution to this global conversation can be found here: https://www.selectscience.net/video/maintaining-qc-accuracy-in-clinical-labs-through-responsible-ai-use #clinical24 #westgardrules #westgardsurveys
European QC habits: more QC, more problems
Sten Westgard
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Where do labs run more QC more often than anywhere else?https://westgard.com/qc-applications/basic-qc-practices/2025-qc-survey-europe.html See the latest findings from the Westgard Global QC Survey.Sometimes more QC just means more (self-inflicted) problems. #westgardrules And if you don't want to glance through hundreds of graphs, you can get the ...
Quality in the Spotlight: New Dates 2021
Sten Westgard
Where in the World is Westgard Now?
Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
Curated COVID-19 links: Questions about Quality of testing
Sten Westgard
COVID-19
Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
Curated COVID-19 links: How the US failed.
Sten Westgard
COVID-19
Posted by Sten Westgard, MS

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