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Doctors’ resistance to BeaconLBS comes to Florida legislature

By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXIII, No. 1 – January 19, 2016 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: THE DARK REPORT IS THE ONLY LAB INDUSTRY NEWS SOURCE to report on this important development. A hearing took place recently on a healthcare bill in the Florida senate. Physicians in Florida are working to get language inserted into a state law that would restrict the …

Lab Test Utilization Delivers Big Gains at Cleveland Clinic

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII NO. 8 – June 1, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Since the launch of a laboratory test utilization program in 2011 at the Cleveland Clinic, more than 35,000 duplicate or inappropriate test orders have been stopped. The test utilization team introduced five initiatives that are not designed to cut spending but to in…

New Lab Industry Trends Require Responses by Labs

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII NO. 7 – May 11, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: One stark difference between the presentations delivered at last year’s Executive War College and this year’s presentations in New Orleans last week was near-unanimous recognition that the era of fee-for-service payment is soon to end! Speaker after speaker urged the…

Doctors at Johns Hopkins Improve Lab Test Utilization

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 14 – October 13, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Efforts to help physicians improve their utilization of clinical lab tests paid big dividends at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Working collaboratively, physicians and the clinical lab team identified overused or needless cardiac biomarker te…

Meaningful Use Stage 2 to Challenge Labs in 2014

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX, No. 17 – December 23, 2013 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: On December 6, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed to delay implementation of Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2 until 2016. One reason is that only about 80 vendors have certified their products to MU Stage 2. That is a small proportion of the almost 900 vendo…

Broward Health’s Lab Pursues Multiple Ways to Cut Lab Costs

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 15 – November 11, 2013 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Tasked with cutting $2 million from their lab’s annual operating budget, the lab team at Broward Health System instituted changes that included a lab test formulary and ordering algorithms. In collaboration with physicians, these changes reduced the use of outmoded tests wh…

Lab Landscape Changing as ACOs Get Started

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XX No. 9 – July 8, 2013 Issue

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 …

Hospital System Acquires Labs In ACO Strategy

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 9 – July 8, 2013 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Moving to deliver services as an accountable care organization (ACO), Genesis Health System of Davenport, Iowa, has acquired the laboratory assets in two hospitals previously operated by Metropolitan Medical Laboratory, PLC, a lab company owned by local patho…

Boosting the Lab’s Role in Collaborative Care

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 1 – January 22, 2013 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Collaborative care is an essential element of accountable care organizations (ACO) and other emerging models of integrated clinical care. At MedCentral Health System, one clinical chemist has held a key place on the physician team that develops order sets and clinical alerts….

CDC Surveys Docs’ Use of Laboratory Test Results

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. – October 8, 2012 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: There’s a treasure trove of information and insights about how physicians use clinical laboratory tests contained in survey data recently collected by a team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Designed to identify challenges in how physicians utilize labor…

Volume XXXI, No. 11 – August 12, 2024

This issue identifies current lab trends as experienced by the two Blood Brothers, Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics, and delves into these trends. Also, a new survey highlights consumer healthcare trends that labs should be aware of.

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