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AS YOU READ THIS ISSUE, YOU WILL BE AMONG THE FIRST in the laboratory industry to learn that more than 50% of the nation’s hospitals are financially deficient and “technically insolvent or at risk of insolvency.” That’s according to Alvarez & Marsal of New York City, which analyzed the financial performance of 3,900 hospitals and …
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CEO SUMMARY: Over the course of two days, pathologists, lab directors, and other laboratory professionals repeatedly heard speakers urge them to work hard to ensure that customers are the top priority for their laboratory organization. Another theme is the need for labs to organize their data so that they can send actionable information to referring …
War College 2008 Theme: Get Close to Customers! Read More »
CEO SUMMARY: Cerner Corporation is using a variety of strategies to reduce the cost of health benefits and improve the quality of care for its workers and dependents. Gluing the entire effort together is an integrated patient health record (PHR) and a host of electronic services, ranging from real time eligibility verification and claims adjudication …
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CEO Summary: In a groundbreaking study just released, consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal determined that as many as half of the nation’s hospitals are failing to generate enough patient revenue to sustain expenses! With a median occupancy rate of 43%, these hospitals are likely to experience a wave of bankruptcies, financial restructurings, and forced mergers. …
New Report Says Half Nation’s Hospitals Have Financial Woes Read More »
CEO SUMMARY: It was a signal win for federal healthcare officials when a federal district court judge in Washington, DC, dismissed a case brought by UroPath, LLC. UroPath had sued HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt seeking to challenge the physician fee schedule final order and the anti-markup rule. The judge’s decision provides Medicare officials with useful …
Ruling Against UroPath Signals More Fed Action Read More »
CEO SUMMARY: Recently, a federal appeals court affirmed a district court ruling concerning who owns human tissue specimens that are stored for research and other uses. While most clinical laboratories routinely discard many types of human specimens after use, any research facility or IVD manufacturer that retains specimens should review the new legal issues raised …
Federal Court Rules on Specimen Ownership Read More »
A simple telemedicine system that incorporates cheap cell phone cameras is being developed by researchers in the United States and Brazil, according to an article in the May 15 issue of the American Chemical Society’s journal, Analytical Chemistry. The goal is to capture medical data, including lab test results, which are transmitted via cell phones …
May 27, 2008 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News” Read More »
FROM THE SHADOWS OF A PARKING GARAGE, Deep Throat suggests to reporter Bob Woodward, “Follow the money.” In this scene from the movie, All the President’s Men, Woodward gets the right advice he needs from an unnamed source to pursue the Watergate case, a huge political scandal of the 1970s. “Follow the money” is also …
Battles Continue Over Doctor Mark Up of Lab Tests Read More »
CEO SUMMARY: Everything relating to automation in clinical laboratory operations was the theme of the sixth “International Conference of Laboratory Automation and Robotics,” conducted last month in Kobe, Japan. Because laboratories in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan have two and three decades of experience with extensive automation, presentations at this gathering are quite sophisticated and reveal …
Lab Automation Advocates Gather in Kobe, Japan Read More »
CEO SUMMARY: In Japan, many clinical laboratories are in their third decade of using automation. At the University of Tokyo Hospital, total laboratory automation (TLA) was first implemented in 1991. Now on its fourth generation TLA system, this laboratory was worked upstream to automate specimen collection and urine collection, transport, and specimen preparation. The result …
Univ. of Tokyo Hospital Lab Has Plenty of Automation Read More »
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