More than ever before, healthcare administrators are looking for viable ways to improve the services they provide while also improving their bottom line. For instance, they are constantly looking for ways to maximize the value and effectiveness of their healthcare professionals.

One obvious way of doing this is to make sure that nurses and technicians spend as much time in their primary responsibilities and locations as possible. Making dozens of trips each day to and from labs and pharmacies is not the best use of their valuable time.

Some healthcare administrators estimate that up to four hours per shift of a technician's time is spent carrying specimens between labs and receiving locations. Hospitals, especially hospitals without pneumatic tube delivery systems, are looking for solutions.