Automation in diagnostic microbiology has provided accessibility to technology overcoming the delays inherent in culture-based technology and providing options to centralisation via use of digital imaging to interpret and report culture plates which enables cultures to be shared over the internet opening the virtual diagnostic microbiology laboratory. Automation is a continuous process which precipitates faster results and invites the diagnostic laboratory into a continuous processing, 24/7 world optimising what it has to offer for improved turnaround time (TAT) and improved workload management. While molecular technology was able to decrease TAT of results it was initially specialised and not freely available to the diagnostic microbiology laboratory becoming more a centralised subspeciality. The automation of molecular methods released the technology to be able to be decentralised and provide greater local access and community benefits from the technology and providing equity of community access to the technology. Thanks to automation, diagnostic microbiology is at the forefront of opening the availability of advances in testing to the broader community via decentralising technol
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