May 2011

False Positive STD Tests Get News Coverage in Indy

CEO SUMMARY: After going public with the discovery that it had reported false positive lab test results for Chlamydia to eight female patients, Mid America Clinical Laboratories (MACL) found itself the subject of stories broadcast by a local television news program. The news coverage featured an interview with one irate patient who said she had …

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Analysis of Lab Test Error Offers Lessons for Labs

Clinical Laboratory / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: As happens now and again, a rather typical example of an error in lab testing has made the nightly news in Indianapolis because of one justifiably irate patient who got a false positive test report for an STD. One pathologist, asked by THE DARK REPORT to assess the public information about this episode …

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Office-Based Physicians Want In-Clinic Laboratories

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By Joseph Burns

CEO SUMMARY: Interest by office-based physicians in creating an in-clinic medical testing laboratory is on the increase. This has direct consequences for independent commercial labs, hospital lab outreach programs, and anatomic pathology groups, since office- based physicians are a primary source of lab test referrals. One consultant says that 60% to 70% of the volume …

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May 02, 2011 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / By Robert Michel

Another laboratory information system (LIS) product has received certification as meeting stage 1 meaningful use (MU) measures. On March 31, McKesson Corporation announced that the Drummond Group’s ONC-aTCB 2011-2012 (ATCB 2011/2012) certification as a compliant EHR module was given to the McKesson Horizon Lab LIS. MORE ON: Certification In a similar development, Sunquest Information Systems …

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