CEO SUMMARY: Discussions within the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee (CLIAC) are focusing on digital diagnostic data and clinical laboratory testing conducted remotely. CLIAC recommendations about these important topics may eventually be part of updates to CLIA, whose language has remained largely untouched since its inception in 1988. SWEEPING RECOMMENDATIONS ARE BEFORE FEDERAL CLINICAL […]
CLIA on Path to Recognize Lab Data As a Specimen
New recommendations also portend a new CLIA certification and approval of remote testing
- By Scott Wallask
- > From the Volume XXX No. 2 - January 23, 2023 Issue
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