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Quality Assurance Regs to Tighten for UK Labs

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CEO SUMMARY: In the United Kingdom, a window of opportunity has opened for improving the quality assurance activities of pathology and histopathology laboratories. Last week, at the Frontiers in Laboratory Medicine conference, the newly-published “Pathology Quality Assurance Review” was the focus of several keynote sessions. One recommendation is to develop key assurance indicators (KAIs) that

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July 29, 2013 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

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Another national health insurance corporation is preparing to institute pre-authorization for genetic tests. Cigna Corporation announced on July 23 that it had selected InformedDNA, to administer its new genetic testing and counseling program. Pathologists and laboratory administrators should note that one goal of Cigna’s new program is “to prevent the ordering of inappropriate genetic tests,”

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