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Top 10 2014 Biggest News Stories
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 17 – December 15, 2014 Issue
Story no.1 SGR Fix by Congress Spawns PAMA; Lab Industry Wary of Law’s Impact ON APRIL 1, PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA signed into law the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA). As written, it has the potential to be the most impactful federal legislation on the clinical lab industry s…
October 13, 2014 “Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 14 – October 13, 2014 Issue
Quality management systems (QMS) have made inroads in some of the organizations that accredit clinical laboratories in the United States to the requirements of CLIA. Last month, COLA of Columbia, Maryland, acknowledged that it had recertified to the standards of ISO 9001: 2008. The r…
July 21, 2014 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 10 – July 21, 2014 Issue
Consolidation of private pathology group practices continues. On July 8, NeoGenomics of Fort Myers, Florida, announced that it had acquired Path Logic of Sacramento. Then, one day later, Incyte Diagnostics of Spokane, Washington, disclosed that it wa…
CMS Gives Deemed Status to A2LA under CLIA Law
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 5 – April 7, 2014 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Quietly published in the March 25 issue of the Federal Register was a notice that CMS had granted deeming authority for CLIA to the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA). This action gives laboratories in the United States a new choice to meet the accredita…
Caris Life Sciences Achieves Accreditation to ISO 15189
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 3 – February 24, 2014 Issue
IN DECIDING TO PURSUE ACCREDITATION TO ISO 15189: Medical Laboratories, Caris Life Sciences considered the international benefits of this designation. It was December when Caris Life Sciences of Irving, Texas, announced that it had earned accreditation to ISO 15189 from the …
Spectra Lab in Milpitas Accredits to ISO 15189
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 17 – December 19, 2011 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Spectra Laboratories, Inc., a renal-specific testing services company with labs in New Jersey and California, announced earlier this month that the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation awarded accreditation to ISO 1589 to its laboratory in Milpitas, California. I…
TriCore Earns Multi-Site CAP 15189 Accreditation
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 13 – September 26, 2011 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: To achieve the goals of continuous improvement and standardization across all facilities within its organization, TriCore Reference Laboratories opted to implement the CAP 15189 quality management system (QMS). Last month, the lab announced its accreditation to CAP 1…
ISO 15189 Accreditation Earned by Spectra Labs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 9 – June 21, 2010 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Spectra Laboratories Inc., recently announced that it had earned accreditation to the ISO 15189:2007 standard, following an assessment by a team from the Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA). Spectra is a high-volume laboratory that serves renal patients. …
ISO 15189 Accreditation Requires Specific Steps For Global Recognition
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 6 – April 19, 2010 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This intelligence briefing is the third in an ongoing series about quality management systems (QMS) and their role in advancing the performance of clinical laboratories and improving the quality of the testing services they provide. ISO 15189 is a set of standards for medical…
First U.S. Labs Nearing ISO:15189 Accreditation
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 11 – August 18, 2008 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Laboratories, hospitals, and other health-care providers in the United States will increasingly be required to adopt quality management systems (QMS) as part of their regular operational routine. This is consistent with trends in other developed countries. Several U.S. labora…
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