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COLA Summit to Address Lab Staffing Shortages
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 5 – March 31, 2025 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: An upcoming gathering of COLA’s Workforce Action Alliance will focus on three staffing challenges: improving data needed to understand the current clinical laboratory workforce; promoting career paths for new professionals in the field; and identifying ways …
Clarapath Automates Slide Prep, Microtomy Workflow
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 9 – July 1, 2024 Issue
>>CEO SUMMARY: Histology is one area of laboratory medicine that utilizes a mostly manual work flow. However, pathology labs will soon have a novel solution designed to automate many of the steps in microtomy that produce glass slides. Reduced variability in the finished glass s…
CLIA on Path to Recognize Lab Data As a Specimen
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX No. 2 – January 23, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Discussions within the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee (CLIAC) are focusing on digital diagnostic data and clinical laboratory testing conducted remotely. CLIAC recommendations about these important topics may eventually be part of updates to …
‘Lab Workforce Crisis Takes Top Spot’–CAP Today
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 6 – April 25, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Just weeks ago, CAP Today characterized the current crisis in staffing clinical laboratories as going “from simmer to rolling boil.” Demand for medical technologists and other certified laboratory scientists far exceeds the supply. Consequently, many labs now…
Lean Used to Lay Groundwork for Lab’s 15189 Accreditation
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 2 – February 3, 2014 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Henry Ford Health System’s laboratory organization has become first in the nation to have all its laboratory sites “standardized under one source of leadership” and accredited to the standards of ISO 15189: Medical Laboratories. The journey to achieve this current state…
How In-Clinic Path Lab Benefits GI Practice
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 12 – September 6, 2011 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In Manassas, Virginia, a five-physician gastroenterology group is using its in-clinic anatomic pathology laboratory to advance patient care, while boosting revenue associated with this ancillary service. In this exclusive interview, the group’s physician business l…
Pathology Across State Lines and National Borders
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XVIII No. 9 – July 5, 2011 Issue
WE ARE SWIFTLY APPROACHING THE DAY when community hospital-based pathologists will be able to serve hospitals and physicians located across state lines with the same ease that they serve hospitals and office-based physicians in their own cities and regions. In the same vein, at least two major acade…
Crossing State Lines With Digital Pathology
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 9 – July 5, 2011 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It is predicted that use of digital pathology will create new care models in the profession of anatomic pathology. An early example of this trend can be found in Bellingham, Washington. Here, the 10 pathologists of Northwest Pathology are using a digital pathology sy…
Using Lean at Henry Ford Transforms Pathology TAT
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 11 – August 10, 2009 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Long-standing work flow traditions in anatomic pathology provide fertile ground for improvement with Lean and similar process improvement methods. That was the case at Henry Ford Health System, where empowered teams in the pathology laboratory employed the principles…
Powerful Trends Reshaping Anatomic Path Profession
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 2 – February 11, 2008 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: THE DARK REPORT presents its newest biannual review of macro trends reshaping the anatomic pathology profession. These macro trends reveal a profession undergoing change and transformation on multiple fronts. New competitors are crowding into the market, payers and accreditin…
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