ProMedica, Sonic Form Lab Outreach Joint Venture

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 12 – August 20, 2018 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Fast-growing ProMedica Health System of Toledo, Ohio, agreed to a laboratory joint venture with Sonic Healthcare USA. As lab budgets and prices for lab tests are squeezed downward, ProMedica sees opportunity to add volume to this new core lab facility to improve efficiency an…

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ARUP Laboratories Earns CAP’s ISO 15189 Accreditation

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 5 – April 3, 2017 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Being accredited to this internationally recognized standard for quality and competence communicates to clients and prospective clients that one of the nation’s largest clinical labs is committed to the highest standards of quality. Clients already knew about that commitmen…

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Much Disruption for Labs In 2016’s Top 10 Stories

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII, No. 17 – December 19, 2016 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Within THE DARK REPORT’S list of the Top 10 Lab Industry Stories for 2016 is one story of disruption that might have been one story of disruption about to happen. The disintegration of Theranos during 2016 is the big story about a self-proclaimed disruptor of the lab indust…

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Henry Ford Health System Laboratory Division Combines Lean with ISO 15189

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 3 – February 29, 2016 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: As healthcare transitions away from fee-for-service payment and adopts new models of reimbursement, every clinical lab will need to deliver more value with its lab testing services. At Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, the laboratory division has blazed a path of improving…

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Achieving CLIA, ISO 15189 at Same Time with A2LA

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 3 – February 17, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: An interesting milestone for the clinical lab industry is on the horizon. Physicians Choice Laboratory Services in South Carolina will soon become one of the first lab organizations in the United States to earn joint CLIA and ISO 15189 accreditations with the America…

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Lean Used to Lay Groundwork for Lab’s 15189 Accreditation

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 2 – February 3, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Henry Ford Health System’s laboratory organization has become first in the nation to have all its laboratory sites “standardized under one source of leadership” and accredited to the standards of ISO 15189: Medical Laboratories. The journey to achieve this current state…

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Labs Push to Cut Costs As Budgets, Prices Shrink

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XX No. 11 – August 13, 2013 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Cost-cutting is now the prime directive at progressive labs because nearly every laboratory organization in the United States is under sustained financial pressure. This is due to shrinking budgets for hospital labs and more aggressive price-cutting by private payers. Even Ob…

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First-Mover Labs Reveal Success with Lean & QMS

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 16 – November 19, 2012 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: There is good news for those clinical labs and pathology groups currently operating robust Lean, Six Sigma, and process improvement programs. The Institute of Medicine’s new report calls for all healthcare providers to rapidly transform themselves into ‘continuously learn…

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Process Improvement Coming to Healthcare

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. – October 8, 2012 Issue

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…

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Ohio Lab Offers Lessons Learned from CAP 15189

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 5 – April 2, 2012 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: For a lab looking to continually improve lab operations, becoming accredited to either ISO 15189 or CAP 15189 is an ideal challenge. After hearing from other lab directors about the benefits of becoming accredited to CAP 15189, the staff at Mercy Medical Center in Canton, Ohi…

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