Georg Hoffmann

Laboratory 4.0: on the path to the fourth generation of laboratory medicine

Abstract Laboratory medicine has witnessed three generational paradigm shifts over the past 75 years – from manual work to early automation, from batch processing to patient-oriented selective analysis, and from human perianalytics to Total Laboratory Automation (TLA). Drawing on...

The zlog value: a decade of standardizing laboratory results

Abstract Background The zlog transformation was developed in 2016 as a method-independent and unit-independent standardization of laboratory results for the German Electronic Health Record (ePA). Based on the assumption of a log-normal distribution and the known lower and upper r...