Georgia Micro Lab Slashes TAT by Almost Two Days

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 6 – April 16, 2018 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Two projects to boost the performance of the microbiology laboratory at University Health Services in Augusta, Ga., significantly reduced test turnaround times in ways that contributed to improved patient outcomes. The first project was in 2016, when the lab introduced mass s…

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Standard Bar Code Labels Can Reduce Lab Errors

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 6 – May 6, 2013 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Standardization of bar code labels is a concept whose time has come. After implementing CLSI standard AUTO12-A, first-mover clinical labs report fewer specimen identification errors, a reduction of costs associated with specimen handling errors, and a boost in lab productivit…

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March 8, 2010 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 4 – March 8, 2010 Issue

On March 1, Omnyx, LLC, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, licensed certain virtual microscopy and digital pathology patents from Olympus America, Inc. Omnyx is a joint venture between GE Healthcare and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center …

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Accreditation with DNV Helps Hospital Raise Inpatient Volume

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 8 – June 8, 2009 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: In Utica, New York, 201-bed St. Elizabeth Medical Center was the first hospital in New York State and one of the first five hospitals nationwide to meet the new accreditation standard from DNV Healthcare, of Cincinnati, Ohio. St. Elizabeth administrators credit use o…

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Staunch Laboratory Advocate Retires After 31 Years of Service

By Robert Michel

LAST MONTH, THE LABORATORY INDUSTRY lost one its most dedicated, full-time advocates. With his retirement in January, Joe Boone, Ph.D., ended a 31-year career with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Boone started with the CDC in 1977. In 1992, he …

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ASCP Awarded PEPFAR II Funds for Lab Assistance

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 1 – January 12, 2009 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: With new Congressional authorization and funding of $48 billion, PEPFAR II—a second five-year initiative to help targeted countries battle HIV, AIDs, tuberculosis, and malaria—is about to get under way. To better support diagnosis and management of HIV/AIDs patie…

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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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ISO 15189 Work Advances at Meeting in Vancouver

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 8 – June 16, 2008 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Laboring quietly out of the public eye, an international work team of professionals, including representatives from the CDC, the FDA, and global in vitro diagnostics (IVD) manufacturers, has spent the past 14 years developing an important series of quality and safety standard…

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ISO 15189 Gains Favor For Lab Accreditation

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 15 – October 29, 2007 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Volunteers for the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) are in the midst of an 18-month project to help five …

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Christian Hospital Laboratory Goes Lean with Solid Results

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIII No. 4 – March 20, 2006 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: As part of a major restructuring program under way at Christian Hospital in St. Louis, Laboratory Administrator Bette J. Stanley decided to apply Lean quality management methods in projects to improve work processes in phlebotomy and the chemistry department. Using internal q…

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