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What Is CAP’s Role When Lab Has a Serious Medical Error?
IT IS CERTAINLY SIGNIFICANT NEWS FOR THE PATHOLOGY PROFESSION that a respected pathologist—indeed a pathology chair—is alleged to be involved in covering up a misdiagnosis of cancer for a patient who then had a healthy essential organ surgically removed. And the story doesn’t end there. It is …
Process Improvement Coming to Healthcare
CEO SUMMARY: One new byword coming to healthcare in the United States is the “continuously-learning healthcare system.” At the upcoming Lab Quality Confab in San Antonio next month, lab managers and pathologists can learn more about how to achieve and sustain continuous improvement in…
Labs Should Prepare for Tighter CLIA Enforcement
CEO SUMMARY: Lab directors and pathologists should take notice of disturbing new developments in enforcement of CLIA regulations. During the past year, CMS officials have revoked the CLIA certification of several hospital laboratories for what are, essentially, inadvertent violations of p…
CURRENT ISSUE
Volume XXVIII, No. 10 – July 26, 2021
In the past 24 to 36 months, some labs have quietly begun using AI-powered applications that are being used to improve operational work processes, to streamline coding/billing/collections, and for analyzing digital pathology images. Also, genetic tests are growing in number and complexity, making it ever harder for labs to get paid.
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