Widely respected as one of the top quaternary care facilities in Pakistan, Shifa International Hospital recently emerged as the first hospital in Asia Pacific and among the first in the world to pursue total automation of its clinical lab.

In this Q&A with Dr Imran Nazir Ahmad, Chief of Pathology and Director of Laboratory at Shifa, we learn about how and why they chose to connect their core lab, molecular diagnostics and haematology systems via an automated and integrated setup that encompasses pre-analytic, analytic and post-analytic operations.