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Sonic Uses Lab Data, Patient-Contact Tools, to Improve Outcomes

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 16 – November 13, 2018 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: In its work for a federally qualified health center, Sonic Healthcare USA helped physicians use a data-driven approach to population health management that incorporated integrated financial and clinical analytics. Also, Sonic developed technologies that give ordering physicia…

Michigan’s Ascension to Standardize Labs Throughout the State

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 13 – September 10, 2018 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Two trends are driving a movement to standardize laboratory operations across large regions: the integration of clinical care and the need for hospitals and health networks to improve patient outcomes continuously. In Michigan, Ascension Health is an example of a lab team wor…

Michigan’s Ascension labs work together to align with a fully integrated health system

By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXV No. 13 – September 10, 2018 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Two trends are driving a movement to standardize laboratory operations across large regions: the integration of clinical care and the need for hospitals and health networks to continuously improve patient outcomes. THE DARK REPORT outlines an ambitious program in Michigan, wh…

Sonora Quest Builds EMPI To Serve Patients and ACOs

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 1 – January 13, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Probably no state has seen a faster transition to ACOs, medical homes, and other types of integrated clinical care organizations than Arizona. Recognizing that this change created a new opportunity to add more value with clinical lab testing services, Sonora Quest Laboratorie…

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…

Memorial Hermann’s Health Info Exchange Helps Lab Outreach

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 16 – November 19, 2012 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: In Houston, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System has put together a health information exchange (HIE) to serve the Houston market. By design, this HIE not only gives physicians immediate access to a wide variety of patient data, but also supports the type of workflow required f…

Epic Launches LIS Software To Fill Out Ancillary Offerings

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 13 – September 13, 2010 Issue

MANY PATHOLOGISTS and laboratory administrators may be unaware that a company called Epic Systems Corporation is considered by some experts in healthcare informatics to be a disrupter of the status quo. Based in Verona, Wisconsin, Epic is best known for its acute an…

E-prescribing Is Example of Need For Labs to Support Connectivity

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 13 – September 21, 2009 Issue

EFFORTS TO MOTIVATE PHYSICIANS to adopt e-prescribing is just one part of a wider trend in healthcare. The drive to achieve full integration of health informatics is gathering momentum. “By itself, the need for clinical laboratories to support e-prescribing is becoming an important competitive dif…

EMR Links as Labs’ Next Competitive Advantage

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XIV No. 12 – August 27, 2007 Issue

WE ARE CAREFULLY TRACKING THE ACCEPTANCE AND USE of electronic medical record (EMR) systems by office-based physicians. It is an important trend, one that is both an opportunity and a threat for regional laboratories. As you will read on pages 3-6, once physicians install and begin to use EMR in the…

Emerging Global Trends in How Labs Are Using “Distributed Computing”

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 7 – May 14, 2007 Issue

“In several different countries, laboratories already use ‘distributed computing’, in the form of a single LIS data center that provides informatics services to as many as 25 laboratories in a region. The trend is to increase interoperability and portability of the i…

Volume XXXI, No. 5 – April 8, 2024

The fragmentation of consumer markets is reflected in clinical lab services, and The Dark Report examines this trend and how it will impact labs in the coming years. Also, The Dark Report notes that the FDA has issued a controversial memo to reclassify many high-risk IVD assays.

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