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One Labâs Solution to Its Histotechnologist Shortage
Histology workforce shortages remain one of the major challenges within the clinical laboratory industry, and, unfortunately, as the demand for histotechnologists increases, the number of qualified personnel has been decreasing. A report releas…
COLA Summit to Address Lab Staffing Shortages
CEO SUMMARY: An upcoming gathering of COLAâs 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
>>CEO SUMMARY: Histology is one area of laboÂratory 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
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 …
âLab Workforce Crisis Takes Top SpotââCAP Today
CEO SUMMARY: Just weeks ago, CAP Today characterized the current crisis in staffing clinical laboratories as going âfrom simmer to rolling boil.â Demand for medical technologists and other certified laboratory scientists far exceeds the supply. Consequently, many labs now…
Lean Used to Lay Groundwork for Labâs 15189 Accreditation
CEO SUMMARY: Henry Ford Health Systemâs laboratory organization has become first in the nation to have all its laboratory sites âstandardized under one source of leadershipâ 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
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 groupâs physician business l…
Pathology Across State Lines and National Borders
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
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
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…
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Volume XXXII, No. 18 – December 29, 2025
The Dark Report reviews its top 10 stories from 2025, from the vacating of the FDA’s LDT rule to the merger of Waters and Becton Dickinson’s biosciences and diagnostics units. Also, a lab outlines its solution to a shortage of histotechnologists, and another story shows how pathologists can become patients’ partners.
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