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Exclusive Clinical Laboratory Automation Interviews with Siemens Healthineers

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Filmed during AACC 2016, these video interviews provide exclusive insight into advanced clinical laboratory automation

27 Oct 2016
Sonia Nicholas
Managing Editor and Clinical Lead

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SelectScience® attends scientific meetings around the world, to speak to industry specialists and experts on the very latest clinical laboratory automation technology. During this year’s AACC Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo, SelectScience® met with representatives from Siemens Healthineers to provide you with these exclusive video interviews.

1. Pioneering New Immunoassay System Improves Laboratory Efficiency

John Dabney, Marketing Manager, Immunoassay Systems, Siemens Healthineers


Watch this video to learn more about the ADVIA Centaur® XPT Immunoassay System, one of the highest-throughput systems available to clinical laboratories. Find out how the latest updates including reduced maintenance, upgraded software, innovative workflow solutions and new user interface are helping laboratories become more efficient.

Do you use the ADVIA Centaur XPT System? Leave a review today!

2. Improving Graves’ Disease Diagnosis with an Automated TSI Assay

Dr Linda C. Rogers, Senior Clinical Consultant, Siemens Healthineers


Graves’ Disease is an autoimmune condition that affects the thyroid. Watch this video to learn how the new, automated, semi-quantitative, Thyroid-Stimulating Immunoglobulin (TSI) Assay from Siemens Healthineers is enabling fast, differential diagnosis of this chronic condition.

Do you use the Siemens TSI Assay on the Immulite 2000? Leave a review today!

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