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Rachael Ward

UNCOVERED: Patients seek reassurances after ivf mix ups - The Untold Story

Clinics like Connect IVF employ cutting edge electronic witnessing systems to guard against error. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

Alarms firing off in an IVF lab as work grinds to a halt may sound like the start of a technology meltdown but at many of Australia's major fertility clinics it's actually a sign safety systems are kicking into gear.

Known as electronic witnessing, the mechanism prevents tissue mix ups and involves multiple layers of identity-document checks by humans and computers.

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