BATON ROUGE -- Our Lady of the Lake in Baton Rouge unveiled a new piece of technology Tuesday that will help deliver lab results for patients faster.

"The new system is the Abbott GLP Automation line. We're only the second site in the state of Louisiana to have this. It is fully electromagnetic, so it doesn't have moving parts like previous versions. It's going to handle approximately 5,000 specimens a day," OLOL Lab Division Senior Director Jim Teague said.

Teague says that the line performs the routine and repetitive tasks in order to reduce turnaround time and standardize the process.

"Tasks like receiving specimens, the centrifugation of specimens, delivering specimens to the analyzer, and storing the specimens after testing. These are tasks that are previously performed by human be

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