Our lab just added a 60‑second tourniquet alert in the handhelds, and I’m updating the onboarding checklist to match. A couple of you mentioned hemolysis bumps after similar rollouts — are you seeing fewer hemolyzed greens now, or new pitfalls like forgetting to re-clean if the tourniquet has to be reapplied?
We saw about 18% fewer hemolyzed greens after tying the 60‑sec alert to a required “release tourniquet” tap before label print. Pitfall was missed re-cleans on reapply, so we added a conditional prompt on snooze that says “re-clean if reapply” — like a naggy kitchen timer. Are you logging reapply/snooze events or linking them to redraw reasons to target coaching?
, the 60‑second alert is great, but we kept forgetting to re-clean on reapply too. We fixed it by making the handheld pop a mandatory ‘re-clean + 30s dry’ countdown when you mark reapply, and it won’t let you scan a green until that timer ends; hemolysis dipped and compliance went way up. Small caveat: it adds about 30 seconds to tricky draws, so we also turned on a 50‑sec haptic nudge — @TrainerLina, do your devices support a secondary timer like that?