“For us, the MINICAP was the perfect choice.” BG-University Hospital Bergmannsheil in Bochum, Germany, has an operating philosophy of “Healing and help with all appropriate means." Accordingly, the hospital’s clinical laboratory has taken “all appropriate means” to soothe the pain points typically felt by labs: namely, how to control labor costs and maintain test quality as the workload continues to increase. The lab, one of the most advanced in Germany, has the ability to run 170 different blood tests quickly and efficiently – with minimal handling by staff. Bergmannsheil adopted automated capillary electrophoresis (CE) in 2001 as an alternative to the very labor-intensive cellulose acetate method. At that time, the lab employed 29 technologists; the headcount now stands at 21, yet the lab’s test menu has broadened significantly in recent years. BG-University Hospital: The 1000th MINICAP user