Mentorship in Laboratory Medicine

Most successful entrepreneurs had mentors that gave them free business advice. These entrepreneurs did not allow the advice to go to waste but they used the advice to pivot their business strategy for the long-term. Much has been said about the importance of business coaching and consulting and why every entrepreneur should find a mentor to help them through starting and organizing a business. Business advice can be just as important as funding in the early stages of starting any business. Finding role models and mentors can be hard especially in this era of social media where everyone has established themselves as experts. Mentors can be voices of reason, fonts of knowledge and sounding boards all wrapped up in one package. Great advice can determine the survival of any entrepreneur who is new to starting and running a business. All these principles are applicable to starting and running a Medical Laboratory. 

Sir Richard Branson is a billionaire businessman who understands and preaches the importance of good mentors. His mentor was legendary airline entrepreneur, Sir Freddie Laker, who founded Laker Airways and who Richard Branson greatly admired. In the early days of Virgin Altlantic, Sir Freddie Laker gave Richard Branson some valuable business advice that he still uses to this day. Virgin Atlantic lacked the big marketing budgets of its larger competitors such as British Airways. Therefore, Laker encouraged Branson to become to face of Virgin Atlantic and drive his own publicity for free. Everyone can do this today with social media. Laker said: "Use yourself. Make a fool of yourself. Otherwise you won't survive."

Laboratory Information Management System in Jamaica

Healthcare Management Information System in Jamaica

DYXNZ BOXYZ: Project XYZ

Product Sourcing Strategy is directly linked to supply chain engineering, operations research and data science. This project seeks to improve inventory management using data in order to ensure that product sourcing strategies are efficiently implemented in healthcare systems. This project will use an operating system built on the linux kernel as well as the source code of G-MOSS. A team will be built to customize open source software to create DYXNZ BOXYZ as a management information system for product sourcing strategy. There will be features for stock movements, location hierarchy, and reporting on this system. This is a project that will help to teach individuals how to use open source software as a learning tool in the information age. Code reviews will be done by volunteer programmers using the open source maturity model before deployment into healthcare systems. The primary goal of this project is be a servant to low income communities that may lack the medical supplies they need because of inefficient supply chains.

To help make this project a success we will be asking for donations and assistance from persons who want to contribute to this cause. Project XYZ is free and we want to make a difference in the world and change medical laboratories for the future. This will be the last blog post before the deployment of DYXNZ BOXYZ version 0.0.1.