Olympus automated laboratory system at the St. Marianna University School of Medicine in Tokyo: An interview with Shigetaka Matsuo, Director of 37 Mitsubishi Branch Laboratories in Japan, Conducted by Prof. Georg Hoffmann on April 9, 1998
✍ Scribed by Shigetaka Matsuo; Georg Hoffmann
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 133 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0895-7533
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✦ Synopsis
The St. Marianna University Hospital serves more than 1,200 beds, 2,000 to 3,000 outpatients per day, two affilitated hospitals, and one nursing school. Twenty-two years ago, this hospital was one of the first in Japan that made the decision to have their routine clinical chemistry operated by a commercial laboratory while keeping services and procedures such as STAT testing, hematology, and microbiology under the responsibility of their respective internal departments.
In 1987, the routine laboratory service was taken over by Mitsubishi Laboratories, one of the top three commercial laboratory chains in Japan. Besides their central reference lab facilities in Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka, this organization has now 40 hospital branch laboratories all over Japan.
Our interview partner Shigetaka Matsuo is the director of 37 out of these 40 laboratories. He is a biochemist by profession with a scientific specialization in antibiotics. In 1996,