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Henry Ford Health System Labs Show How Lean Methodology in Healthcare Increases Revenues

By Mary Van Doren, from the Volume XXIII No. 3 – February 29, 2016 issue

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Here’s a major accomplishment by the lab division of a nationally-recognized health system that has gone unreported until this DARK REPORT intelligence briefing. This article explains how using the quality management system of ISO 15189 and the Lean methodology in healthcare allow it to absorb shrinking lab budgets while improving quality, and, at the

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Vitamin D Test Volumes Doubled in Past Year

By Robert Michel, from the Volume XV No. 10 - July 28, 2008 issue

CEO SUMMARY: Across the nation, labs report a near doubling in the volume of vitamin D tests they are performing. This is a success for laboratory medicine and an appropriate use of diagnostics tests as physicians strive for early detection and early intervention of vitamin D deficiency. However, the next chapter in this story will

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Luminex Raises $83 Mil In Public Stock Offering

By Robert Michel, from the Volume VII No. 7 - May 8, 2000 issue

CEO SUMMARY: During the past year, Luminex Corporation moved swiftly to push its LabMAP™ multiplex testing technology into the bioassay marketplace. It found high interest among companies in the pharmaceutical, diagnostics, and bioresearch industries. Luminex executives say that a number of companies are working to have FDA-approved diagnostic test kits available for laboratories by year’s

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PennState Geisinger Building “ Distributed Lab ” Around POCT

By Robert Michel, from the Volume VI No. 9 - June 28, 1999 issue

CEO SUMMARY: Here’s an integrated healthcare system that’s pushing its clinical laboratory across traditional barriers between physician’s office and clinical lab. At PennState Geisinger Healthcare, a fast-growing health system located in rural Pennsylvania, point-of-care testing is now an essential feature of the regional clinics and physician offices. The laboratory embraced this development and is now

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Volume XXVI No. 2 – February 4, 2019

NOW THAT MOST HOSPITALS ARE INCLUDED as applicable laboratories that must report their PAMA private payer lab test price data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, managers of those labs will benefit from the incisive analysis in this issue of the lessons learned during the 2017 PAMA reporting cycle. THE DARK REPORT further offers recommendations on how labs can do a better job of gathering and reporting their own data to CMS. Also, TDR delivers an exclusive analysis of why the Government Accounting Office's assertion that CMS will be paying billions more for Part B clinical lab tests is simply wrong.

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