What is an office-based lab?

More procedures are moving to out-of-hospital care settings such as office-based labs and ambulatory surgery centers due to patient demand, improvements in medical technology, as well as financial and operational benefits. These are facilities that perform routine, minimal invasive procedures using image-guided therapy outside the hospital. Dr. Atul Gupta, Chief Medical Officer for Image Guided Therapy at Philips explains what an office-base-lab is and how COVID 19 pushed the trend towards out-of-hospital care settings.