Specialized consulting company

Efficiency providers
for clinical Laboratories
since 1991

Our activities cover all the areas related to the Clinical
Laboratory Diagnostics industry in the field of human
medicine
Specialized consulting company

Efficiency providers for clinical Laboratories
since 1991

Our activities cover all the areas related to the Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics industry in the field of human medicine
Specialized consulting company

Efficiency providers for clinical Laboratories
since 1991

Our activities cover all the areas related to the Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics industry in the field of human medicine
1991
2015
2024

Our History

Gontard & Cie AG was founded in 1991 in Geneva, Switzerland, by Patrick Gontard, key opinion leader in the field of applied Efficiency for Diagnostic Laboratories globally.

Our Company was established as a classic specialized Consulting Company, aimed to help Clinical Laboratories to optimize their processes, boost their Efficiency and value for all the stakeholders.

Our History

We bring success to our Clients through a systematic Holistic Approach to Laboratory processes, and Data-driven and Evidence-based decision support. This drove us to expend our Consulting activities in the IT and Data management areas.

In 2015 we established our own in-house IT solutions development subsidiary to help our Clients optimize their Data and IT Ecosystem to support our Customers management needs related to constantly and rapidly evolving informatics, technological, regulatory and business environment.

Our History

Gontard & Cie Group of Companies is directly present in 4 countries, including a separate unit for in-house IT solutions development and offices in Switzerland, UK and UAE.

We provide Efficiency engineering and Consulting services to Laboratories, IVD manufacturers and distributors, health authorities and governments in 15+ countries in Americas, Eurasia and Middle East.

Our History

1991
2015
2024

Gontard & Cie AG was founded in 1991 in Geneva, Switzerland, by Patrick Gontard, key opinion leader in the field of applied Efficiency for Diagnostic Laboratories globally.

Our Company was established as a classic specialized Consulting Company, aimed to help Clinical Laboratories to optimize their processes, boost their Efficiency and value for all the stakeholders.

We bring success to our Clients through a systematic Holistic Approach to Laboratory processes, and Data-driven and Evidence-based decision support. This drove us to expend our Consulting activities in the IT and Data management areas.

In 2015 we established our own in-house IT solutions development subsidiary to help our Clients optimize their Data and IT Ecosystem to support our Customers management needs related to constantly and rapidly evolving informatics, technological, regulatory and business environment.

Gontard & Cie Group of Companies is directly present in 4 countries, including a separate unit for in-house IT solutions development and offices in Switzerland, UK and UAE.

We provide Efficiency engineering and Consulting services to Laboratories, IVD manufacturers and distributors, health authorities and governments in 15+ countries in Americas, Eurasia and Middle East.

Our History

1991
2015
2024

Gontard & Cie AG was founded in 1991 in Geneva, Switzerland, by Patrick Gontard, key opinion leader in the field of applied Efficiency for Diagnostic Laboratories globally.

Our Company was established as a classic specialized Consulting Company, aimed to help Clinical Laboratories to optimize their processes, boost their Efficiency and value for all the stakeholders.

We bring success to our Clients through a systematic Holistic Approach to Laboratory processes, and Data-driven and Evidence-based decision support. This drove us to expend our Consulting activities in the IT and Data management areas.

In 2015 we established our own in-house IT solutions development subsidiary to help our Clients optimize their Data and IT Ecosystem to support our Customers management needs related to constantly and rapidly evolving informatics, technological, regulatory and business environment.

Gontard & Cie Group of Companies is directly present in 4 countries, including a separate unit for in-house IT solutions development and offices in Switzerland, UK and UAE.

We provide Efficiency engineering and Consulting services to Laboratories, IVD manufacturers and distributors, health authorities and governments in 15+ countries in Americas, Eurasia and Middle East.

Companies of the group

360 IVD Lab optimization
services, including both consulting and IT-transformation

Specialized software development
for IVD Labs efficiency assessment
and boost

Regional representative offices:
• Freienbach, Switzerland
• Dubai, UAE

Companies
of the group

360 IVD Lab optimization services, including both consulting and IT-transformation

Specialized software development
for IVD Labs efficiency assessment and boost

Regional representative offices:
• Freienbach, Switzerland
• Dubai, UAE

Companies of the group

360 IVD Lab optimization services, including both consulting and IT-transformation

Specialized software development
for IVD Labs efficiency assessment and boost

Regional representative offices:
• Freienbach, Switzerland
• Dubai, UAE

Our Approach

01

Holistic and systemic
approach

A holistic and systemic approach taking into account all internal/external stakeholders and impacting the whole value chain, from network of blood collection points, to logistics, production sites, and prescribers’ support 
in patients’ management.

02

Evidence-based
data-centric methodology

An evidence-based data-centric methodology, involving a deployment of our proprietary set of IT tools and software, specially designed for laboratory data collection, classification, cleaning, integration and processing, and specific business processes simulation.

Our Approach

01

Holistic and systemic
approach

A holistic and systemic approach taking into account all internal/external stakeholders and impacting the whole value chain, from network of blood collection points,
to logistics, production sites, and prescribers’ support 
in patients’ management.

02

Evidence-based
data-centric methodology

An evidence-based data-centric methodology, involving a deployment of our proprietary set of IT tools and software, specially designed for laboratory data collection, classification, cleaning, integration and processing, and specific business processes simulation.

Our Approach

01

Holistic and systemic
approach

A holistic and systemic approach taking into account all internal/external stakeholders and impacting the whole value chain, from network of blood collection points,
to logistics, production sites, and prescribers’ support 
in patients’ management.

02

Evidence-based
data-centric methodology

An evidence-based data-centric methodology, involving a deployment of our proprietary set of IT tools and software, specially designed for laboratory data collection, classification, cleaning, integration and processing, and specific business processes simulation.

Our Services

Our Services

Our Services

Our Services

Lab management support and guidance to improve both Costs and Medical Value of production via scale effect and “best test in class” approach, processes optimization & unification.

We consider Lab production from both a medical and an Industrial point of view. We provide our clients with evidence-data based Production Design and production transformation/improvement scenarios and comprehensive support during the whole Transformation journey.

Production Design scenarios include: tests menu with TTRs/SLAs, processing technology, costs projection, and allocation by site, taking into account medical specifics of tests and Service Level Agreements between Lab and its clients.

We implement a Horizontal Unification of Production, by test families, which allows to make all the production Labs interchangeable, increase medical results traceability, and choose the best adapted technical solution for each department.

Our Decentralized Centralization approach helps to find optimal tests flows allocation between high-capacity cost-efficient Central Hub and localized sites to serve TTR and SLA for urgent tests in an efficient operational model.

We provide comprehensive analytical and organizational Procurement support: systematic key contracts review with expiry calendar, contracts optimization heat-map, price-point validation, tenders management support and price level optimization.

Helps the stakeholders to see the Lab’s current position in numbers and set measurable initial and intermediate targets for the efficiency optimization journey.

Just as any journey begins with determining the current and target location, any transformation begins with Initial Assessment of the current state of the laboratory and improvements goals.


As a result, we create the Digital Lab Avatar™ and Flow-Process mapping diagram — which reflect Lab situation in numbers and shows the current position compared to the wished progresses in terms of Lab performance. 
Based on Lab Avatar™ data and our client’s goals we propose clear Targets on the optimization map and describe and calculate feasible pathways — Scenarios for the Transformation journey.

Holistic view on the Lab current situation usually reveals “low-hanging fruits” — quick and easy actions with considerable pay-back to partially cover your financial needs during the Transformation journey.

Just as a traveler follows the map during a typical journey, we conduct Intermediate Assessments to quantify the Transformation progress.  We update the Lab Avatar™ and monitor our Transformation Scorecards to measure the results on each stage of the transformation.

The essence of our approach to procurement is to achieve a shared responsibility partnership with key IVD manufacturers.

Procurement support service covers Contracts & Vendors management and Tenders support.

We conduct a systematic contract review and create a contracts optimization points heat-map, based on criteria adjusted to client’s Lab needs. The heat-map may include prices, conditions validation from production point of view, service level assessment, risks of vendor-locked solutions, contract’s expiry calendar, minimum up-time of equipment, maximum intervention time for service engineers.

To conduct vendors’ price-point validation we use our proprietary analytical tools, scientific experiments data and international references and benchmarks directories, based on Unified Catalog and Total Cost of Ownership approach.

According to the needs of clients, we provide comprehensive analytical and organizational Tender support: unified RFP preparation, proposals validation and refinement, negotiations support, final options comparison, and rating.

To support data-driven well-prepared decisions we consolidate medical, production and procurement expertise and use our proprietary Lab Efficiency suite of tools.

We map all the diverse Lab software into a holistic digital environment
to support effective Lab processes.

We start from existing digital “zoo” investigation and restructure it to an Integrated Efficient Ecosystem of systems.

The first step is to make sure all the necessary functions are covered with complementary software, to close the gaps (including custom In-house IT-tools development), and to cancel unnecessary tools to save costs and simplify processes.
It is also important to ensure correct and comprehensive usage of installed existing software.

In parallel with optimization of the installed set of software, we create a unified Data warehouse on client’s premises and set up an integrated data storage & management layer with unified and enriched data.

Ecosystem of Systems building is an inevitable part of our Total Process Control approach, as it creates a holistic and solid base for trustable end-to-end analytics.

A specific common education program for Lab staff and Lab management to create a uniform information space for all employees and facilitate the Lab efficiency optimization in respect of the Stakeholders Vision.

We accompany most of our services for Labs with specific education for laboratory staff to support the lab transformation process.

Our education capabilities cover all the key areas of the Laboratory activities, which affect its performance, such as Processes organization, Laboratory KPIs tracking, Data management, etc.

Our trainings are practical based, on the existing situation of a particular client with cases based on the client’s real data.

We use a cascading approach in our training programs: starting from seminars for TOP-management and then extrapolating it down to all the levels of staff including Lab technicians, couriers and nurses.

Sharing expertise helps to extend employees’ knowledge about the organization and the challenges it faces, inspired with the new goals, and engage into the transformation process.

Holistic data management and analytics solution for Labs, which makes your data — a solid and reliable daily Lab management tool.

Total Process Control (TPC) provides Lab management with a holistic adjustable set of Reports and Dashboards, which covers all key Lab processes and KPIs tracking on a daily basis.

The basis of TPC is an integrated Data Management Ecosystem, covering all the available Lab data sources.

Unified well-structured data storage and automated extractions and processing enables an increased flexibility of analytics to support both regular routine reporting, and quick compilation of custom-tailored analytics to serve specific projects.

We continuously ensure high quality of data via proactive circular data improvement process: new data collection, cleaning, validation, unification, categorization, enrichment using Global Unified Catalog, incorporation in analytics.

We believe that this evidenced and data-driven scientific approach to Lab management enables Labs to get more predictable and favorable cost base, and more participative collaboration with staff, suppliers, partners and even clients.

In-house unique software development to support Lab transformation: our proprietary Lab Efficiency suite of tools and client specific custom-tailored IT-tools.

Being evidence data-driven, our consulting services and research projects imply large-scale analytical operations, which would be impossible without data collection automation.

To cover needs in Lab specific software, we established a dedicated IT subsidiary company with full-fledged software development capacity, data engineering and digital simulations teams.

We use our proprietary Lab Efficiency software suite for Data Storage & Management, Data Analytics, Benchmarking, statistical calculations, and Lab processes digital simulations.

On-request we develop for our clients custom-tailored software to cover gaps in particular Lab processes digitization and predictive analytical tools to support specific Lab projects and activities within the scope of the Lab Transformation.

Providing Laboratories with our consulting services, we adhere to a scientific approach and use our internal scientific resources.

Each Lab transformation is a unique scientific project. To support our production re-design projects with comparison and benchmarking of different Lab equipment configurations, we use 3 main scientific techniques:

  • Le Mans protocol — Lab working day imitation physical experiment

  • Digital simulation of Laboratory processes

  • Mathematical modeling of Lab processes, external risks & conditions, scenarios of changes.



To be able to unify and categorize IVD production tests we created our proprietary IVD Lab production reference database — Global Unified Catalog. This enables us to match all tests to the unique assay level and create a vendor agnostic approach to lab management.

We also conduct medical research projects based on Big-data for Labs and Health Authorities, and we are open for custom-tailored on-demand research projects.

Unique Methodologies

Unique
Methodologies

Unified Catalog

A holistic and systemic approach taking into account all internal/external stakeholders and impacting the whole value chain, from network of blood collection points, to logistics, production sites, and prescribers’ support in patients’ management.

Total Cost of Ownership

The core idea of TCO is to account and attribute all the costs for tests precisely: not just main reagents and analyzers, but all the equipment, staff, consumables, plastics etc.

Unique Methodologies

Unified Catalog

A holistic and systemic approach taking into account all internal/external stakeholders and impacting the whole value chain, from network of blood collection points, to logistics, production sites, and prescribers’ support in patients’ management.

Total Cost of Ownership

The core idea of TCO is to account and attribute all the costs for tests precisely: not just main reagents and analyzers, but all the equipment, staff, consumables, plastics etc.

«We are pioneers in efficiency tools implementation
for the In Vitro Diagnostics Industry. We offer a wide range of services and tools to bring added value to our clients, doctors and patients, and create long-lasting value for all stakeholders of the healthcare chain.» 

Patrick Gontard,
Founder and Executive Chairman of Gontard & Cie Group

«We are pioneers in efficiency tools implementation
for the In Vitro Diagnostics Industry. We offer a wide range of services and tools to bring added value to our clients, doctors and patients, and create long-lasting value for all stakeholders of the healthcare chain.» 

Patrick Gontard,
Founder and Executive Chairman of Gontard & Cie Group

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We provide Efficiency engineering and Consulting services to Laboratories, IVD manufacturers and distributors, health authorities and governments in 15+ countries in Americas, Eurasia and Middle East.

A selection of our past and present clients

We provide Efficiency engineering and Consulting services to Laboratories, IVD manufacturers and distributors, health authorities and governments in 15+ countries in Americas, Eurasia and Middle East.

Contact Us

    Switzerland

    Gontard & Cie AG

    Kantonsstrasse 157,
    Freienbach 8807

    CHE-413.505.493

    M +41797327327

    UAE

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    DWC-LLC

    Business Center Dubai World Central

    P.O Box 712426

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