Executive’ s Guide Best-of-breed laboratory systems v. enterprise-wide systems: Five factors to consider Today’s health system leaders face an important decision point regarding laboratory technology investments. The question is: Should you maintain the legacy laboratory system or vendor, replace it entirely with the laboratory module of an enterprise- wide solution, or integrate an enterprise-wide system with surrounding support from a best-of-breed laboratory solution? Largely viewed as a one-time cost, many hospital executives are choosing enterprise-wide systems without conducting ROI analyses or assessing enterprise-wide impact, only to uncover post-implementation costs, interoperability issues and drawbacks that could diminish lab capabilities – the same capabilities that p

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