CEO SUMMARY: To simplify diagnostic reporting, the pathology and radiology departments at the David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center are working together to deliver integrated diagnostic information to treating oncologists. This innovative strategy is designed to improve patient care and quality while saving time and cutting costs. For five months, diagnosticians have worked together on more than 50 lung cancer cases while gathering the evidence to show this interdisciplinary approach can improve decision-making and reduce downstream treatment costs.
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UCLA Pathologists, Radiologists Produce Combined Reports
By kemioyesiku, from the Volume XXII NO. 2 - January 26, 2015 issue
CEO SUMMARY: To simplify diagnostic reporting, the pathology and radiology departments at the David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center are working together to deliver integrated diagnostic information to treating oncologists. This innovative strategy is designed to improve patient care and quality while saving time and cutting costs. For five months, diagnosticians have worked together on more than 50 lung cancer cases while gathering the evidence to show this interdisciplinary approach can improve decision making and reduce downstream treatment costs.
UCLA, Centre to Open Lab in China to Offer High Quality Testing
By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XXI NO. 7 – May 19, 2014 issue
CEO SUMMARY: To fill the unmet demand for quality clinical laboratory testing in China, a partnership between pathologists at UCLA and Centre Testing International Corp. of Shenzen have built and will operate a lab facility in Shanghai. The new lab will open by late September and will initially provide core lab testing services to pharmaceutical
Pathologists in China, U.S. Linked By Digital Pathology
By Robert Michel, from the Volume XIX No. 12 - August 27, 2012 issue
CEO Summary: It is one of the first clinical collaborations of this type to be anchored by use of digital pathology. Pathologists at the medical schools of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) are exchanging cases and sharing knowledge. During the first 18
Digital Pathology Enables UCLA–China Lab Connection
By Robert Michel, from the Volume XIX No. 10 - July 16, 2012 issue
CEO SUMMARY: Digital pathology holds the promise of interconnecting pathologists around the globe in ways that advance diagnostic accuracy and improve patient outcomes. One pioneering digital pathology collaboration involves the pathology departments at the medical schools of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China.
PART ONE OF A SERIES
DIGITAL PATHOLOGY
July 05, 2011 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel, from the Volume XVIII No. 9 - July 05, 2011 issue
Two laboratory companies based in Spokane, Washington, were recently recognized in a list of Washington State’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” in 2011. One was Incyte Pathology, Inc., an anatomic pathology group. The other was Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories (PAML). The list was compiled by Seattle Business magazine. Over 300 companies were involved in
Integrated In Vivo-In Vitro: Is It Pathology’s Future?
By Robert Michel, from the Volume XIV No. 17 - December 10, 2007 issue
CEO SUMMARY: Across the globe, forward-thinking pathologists and radiologists are taking steps to use molecular technologies in ways that combine in vivo and in vitro testing. As this happens, traditional roles for pathology and radiology are likely to evolve toward a more integrated diagnostic service. To learn more about this trend, Molecular Summit 2008 is
Lab Innovators Point Way At Executive War College
By Robert Michel, from the Volume XII No. 8 - May 30, 2005 issue
CEO SUMMARY: Now in its tenth year, this Executive War College attracted a record crowd, including laboratory leaders from Europe, Africa, South America, and Asia. The unexpected finding was that, along with the growing acceptance of Lean, Six Sigma and other quality management systems by the nation’s first-rank lab organizations, assertive surveying of physician and
Brazil’s Lab Industry Gathers in Rio de Janeiro
By Robert Michel, from the Volume X No. 13 - September 29, 2003 issue
CEO SUMMARY: Healthcare in Brazil remains a free market and thousands of clinical laboratories exist to fill the demand. However, there are early indications that commercial laboratories in Brazil may be on the verge of the same tidal wave of lab acquisitions and consolidation that was experienced in the United States during the past 15