Global capabilities
Delivering value beyond the test result
At Mayo Clinic Laboratories, laboratory medicine is about more than a test result — it’s about everything that contributes to providing answers for your patients. We develop individualized support solutions for each client that extend through all aspects of the relationship to ensure the delivery of answers, not just results.
Specialized testing areas include:
Global logistics and shipping
We develop unique relationships with each client to individualize logistics support, which is coordinated by a local team who ensures a seamless process before the first patient specimen is sent. Our specialists collaborate with packaging suppliers to create unique solutions that extend the stability of specimens traveling around the world.
These experts ensure specimens are handled carefully and efficiently through close connections to shipping carriers. The air carriers we work with are experienced with processing clinical specimens.
Optimized, expeditious processing
We recognize many medical conditions have a window of opportunity for the best possible outcomes. Our tests and processes are optimized to better serve patients and deliver results with outcomes in mind. We do not triage specimens across a network of labs or use a batch-testing business model. Result turnaround times are expedited by:
- Running tests continuously – your samples are processed alongside those from Mayo Clinic.
- A testing approach that incorporates comprehensive panels and algorithms when appropriate.
- Utilization of Lean and Six Sigma processes.
Reliable connectivity
We offer technology solutions to help our clients connect to us, including a secure online portal with interfacing capabilities that allows you to easily order tests and receive results. Our solutions include:
- Client-friendly test ordering through MayoLINK, which is available in eight languages.
- Expansive website with links to our open- access test catalog, which is updated daily and features comprehensive clinical information, including specimen requirements; clinical and interpretative information; performance; sample test reports; setup files; and pricing.
- 30 country-specific toll-free numbers.
News and updates
The latest
Dr. Bill Morice shares how clinical diagnostics are expanding to guide treatment and enable clinicians to target therapies more precisely.
In this episode of Lab Medicine Rounds, Ellen Dijkman Dulkes, a member of Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ Outreach and Network Solutions team, discusses why reference laboratory testing is important and what will be significant in the future for these laboratories.
In September 2021, Mayo Clinic Laboratories announced seven new tests along with numerous reference value changes, obsolete tests, and algorithm changes.
William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, is on the "Answers From the Lab" podcast for his weekly leadership update. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Bobbi Pritt, M.D., are joined by Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D. The three delve into common myths about the COVID-19 vaccines, and emphasize that the vaccines are effective and safe.
In August 2021, Mayo Clinic Laboratories announced three new tests along with numerous reference value changes, obsolete tests, and algorithm changes.
The following list includes updates posted to mayocliniclabs.com during the month of August.
With a spike in cases spurred by the delta virus, demand for COVID-19 testing is on the rise again, and several at-home tests that have been approved for emergency use authorization are becoming more popular. But should you rely on a test that you administer yourself to tell you whether you have COVID-19? Dr. Matthew Binnicker explains the pros and cons of at-home tests.
As a technical publications specialist, Pat Staley ensures that health care providers and laboratorians have the clear, concise, accurate information about Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ tests that they need to guide patient care.
This weeks research roundup features Diagnosis and classification of ileal pouch disorders: consensus guidelines from the international Ileal pouch consortium.
Topic's Include: FDA gives full approval to Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, responding to increased demand for COVID-19 testing, vaccines and implementing visitor restrictions, and Mayo Clinic to offer COVID-19 vaccination walk-in clinics in Rochester through Sept. 17.
Today's highlights include: COVID delta surge puts strain on Minnesota hospitals: ‘Everybody’s Exhausted’, are delta symptoms different, and who qualifies for a 3rd dose of the COVID-19 vaccine?
In this episode of Lab Medicine Rounds, visiting medical student Carol Rizkalla sits down with Justin Kreuter, M.D., to discuss the importance of external rotations within pathology and how to be a successful visiting medical student.
Due to the Labor Day holiday (recognized on Monday, September 6), Mayo Clinic Laboratories' specimen pickup and delivery schedules will be altered.