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December 23, 2013 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Saudi Arabia is the second country to embark on the goal of sequencing 100,000 human genomes. Earlier this month, the Saudi Human Genome Program was announced. Funding for the program, expected to take five years, will be provided by the Saudi Arabian national science agency. The fir…
Lab’s Patient-Centric Approach Collects Overdue Money in PSCs
CEO SUMMARY: At Sonora Quest Laboratories (SQL), the ‘Voice of the Customer’ is guiding the organization’s evolution from physician-centric to patient-centric. It was quickly recognized that an effective enterprise master patient index (EMPI) was essential. One patient-centric servi…
November 11, 2013 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Who would have guessed that Angelina Jolie would do a multi-million-dollar favor to Myriad Genetics, Inc.? Jolie caused quite a stir earlier this year when she went public with the news that she had done a prophylactic double mastectomy after she had learned the results of her BRCA test for br…
Portland Lab Leverages Informatics for Growth
CEO SUMMARY: In Portland, Oregon, Legacy Laboratory Services, a division of Legacy Health, continues to post strong volume growth. One driver supporting this growth is the lab’s ability to implement connections between its laboratory information system (LIS) and the electronic …
Coming Soon to Your City: More Hospital Mergers
UPON THE COMPLETION OF THEIR MERGER AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER, Baylor Health Care System and Scott & White Healthcare became the largest not-for-profit health system in Texas, boasting $8 billion in assets and annual revenue of about $6 billion. Now known as …
Hospitals Recognize Need for Uniform Lab Test Data
CEO SUMMARY: Hospitals may soon insist that payers allow their in-house labs to provide outpatient testing regardless of exclusive managed care contracts with national lab companies. The migration to accountable care organizations (ACOs) and medical homes makes it essential that physician…
PeaceHealth Lab Helps Docs with Info to Improve Outcomes
CEO SUMMARY: Described by its CEO as “an information company that happens to do laboratory testing,” PeaceHealth Laboratories of Springfield, Oregon, is moving swiftly to develop and deliver value-added services to its client physicians. The lab’s goal is to help re…
Laboratory Offers Early Lessons in Positioning for Success with ACOs
CEO SUMMARY: Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are already leading the shift from fee-for-service reimbursement to population payment. ACOs are leading healthcare’s evolution to preventive care, wellness, and better management of patients with chronic disease. This evolution will re…
Two Omaha Med Centers Form Collaborative Lab
CEO SUMMARY: An accountable care organization with a strong clinical laboratory component is taking shape in Nebraska. The University of Nebraska Medical Center has developed a partnership with the Nebraska Methodist Health System to form an ACO called the Accountable Car…
Lab Landscape Changing as ACOs Get Started
FOR THOSE OF YOU INTERESTED IN HOW the development of accountable care organizations (ACOs) in a community causes a realignment among providers and the clinical laboratories serving them, I offer you the example of Genesis Health System in Davenport, Iowa. As you will read …
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
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