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On the pages that follow, you will learn about a major story in the clinical laboratory industry that has gone unreported and publicly unremarked by the lab profession at large. This story is how three large health systems that own 372 hospitals have switched to a different CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments) accreditation organization over …
2021 Opens with a Major Story … and It’s Not COVID! Read More »
CEO SUMMARY: Over the past 18 months, several prominent national health systems decided to shift their CLIA laboratory accreditation services away from the College of American Pathologists and to The Joint Commission. These shifts from one accrediting body to another will involve hundreds of hospital laboratories. Such a shift in the market for CLIA accreditation …
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CEO SUMMARY: It is uncommon for a major health system to switch its CLIA lab accreditation business from one accrediting body to another. Yet, just in the past 18 months, that decision was made by the Veterans Administration, Ascension Health, and Providence Health. This is an important development for the entire clinical laboratory profession, because …
Why Are Health Systems Changing CLIA Accreditors? Read More »
MAJOR CHANGES ARE HAPPENING IN THE COMPETITIVE MARKET for CLIA accreditation of hospital laboratories. Some health systems representing hundreds of hospitals have shifted from using the College of American Pathologists (CAP) to using The Joint Commission (TJC) to meet the accreditation requirements of the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment (CLIA) statute. Such a movement of …
Understanding Differences Between 2 CLIA Accreditors Read More »
“We believe the ability to work with just two drops of blood, plus the fast time-to-results and the reduction in operator overhead provided by our FDA-cleared moderate-complexity analyzer, will be highly attractive to providers.” —Yossi Pollak, CEO, Sight Diagnostics, Ltd. CEO SUMMARY: For 70 years, the Coulter Principle has been a bedrock technology in hematology. …
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CEO SUMMARY: Is it smart to initiate digital pathology (DP) systems and whole-slide imaging just as a novel coronavirus upends healthcare and society at large? That was the question asked at Poplar Healthcare, a pathology lab in Memphis. Senior management proceeded with the implementation, despite the uncertainty that accompanied the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Nine months later, …
Digital Pathology Launched in the ‘Era of COVID-19’ Read More »
Just days ago, the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued updated information about the COVID-19 tests it has authorized since early in the pandemic. As of Jan. 15, 2021, the agency had authorized a total of 317 tests for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Included in this total are 236 molecular tests, 68 antibody tests, and …
January 19, 2021 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News Read More »
EXPECT 2021 TO BE JUST AS CHALLENGING A YEAR for lab management as was 2020. This will be true not only because of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Other important factors will complicate the operation of clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups in the new year. One reason is the lab management duality that I described in …
CEO SUMMARY: There are several surprises in The Dark Report’s list of the Top 10 Lab Stories for 2020. Despite the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic dominating every aspect of clinical care, social life, and economic activities since March, at least one major health insurer pushed ahead with two major policies governing how labs can submit claims. In …
2020’s Top 10 Lab Stories Are Without Precedent! Read More »
IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, A MASS COVID-19 TESTING PLAN called “Operation Moonshot” is on hold until at least the end of January. Under the plan, health ministers sought to increase daily SARS-CoV-2 testing from 430,000 to 10 million Englanders per day. Inaccurate early results from a newly-launched, same-day, at-home COVID-19 lateral-flow test caused officials to …
UK Postpones Mass COVID Testing Plan Due to Questions of Accuracy Read More »
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