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Northwell Health Lab Team Leverages Data to Add Value

By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XXVI No. 8 – June 10, 2019 issue

CEO SUMMARY: Today, insurers get risk-adjusted payments for treating patients who have high-cost health conditions and they make risk-adjusted payments to physicians, hospitals, and other providers. At Northwell Health, the clinical lab saw the opportunity to leverage lab test data with other clinical and demographic data to identify patients who were undiagnosed or whose conditions were

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Fewer Pathologists Means Tighter Market for Jobs

By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XXVI No. 8 – June 10, 2019 issue

CEO SUMMARY: Pathologists seeking jobs will find that a more competitive job market is pushing salaries up over $300,000 per year on average. In addition, most new jobs come with a hiring bonus and funds for relocation of as much as $12,000 and for continuing medical education of $3,500. But these higher salaries also come

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LIS-EHR Fees Increasing, Say Hospital Lab Execs

By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XXVI No. 4 – March 18, 2019 issue

CEO SUMMARY: Hospital and health system lab managers say some vendors of electronic health record systems for independent physicians are aggressively raising the fees they charge labs. Labs serving outreach physicians now pay more in two ways, they say. First, they pay the price the vendor charges to implement an LIS-to-EHR interface. Second, they pay

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U of Florida Health Improves Patient Care with PGx Testing

By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XXV No. 17 – December 3, 2018 issue

CEO SUMMARY: Since 2011, the University of Florida Health System has used pharmacogenetic test (PGx) results to guide physicians when they prescribe certain drugs. This initiative has improved patient outcomes, reduced the overall cost per episode of care, and gained partial reimbursement from health insurers for PGx test claims. As this testing becomes more widespread, clinical

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Sonic Adds More Value to Help Physicians Treat CKD Patients

By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XXV No. 16 – November 13, 2018 issue

BUILDING ON THE LESSONS IT LEARNED by developing lab services that helped primary care physicians identify, diagnose, and treat diabetes patients in their practices, Sonic Healthcare USA was ready to do the same for another disease.

Sonic wanted to go beyond simply reporting an accurate and timely lab test result. Instead, it wanted to leverage the

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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 physicians clinical decision support and targeted patient engagement tools. It then developed a way to contact patients

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Project Santa Fe Labs Deliver Value with Tests

By Joseph Burns, from the Volume XXV No. 16 – November 13, 2018 issue

CEO SUMMARY: No bigger threat looms over the financial security of the nation’s clinical laboratories than healthcare’s transition from fee-for-service payment to value-based reimbursement. To navigate that transition successfully, medical labs and pathology groups will need to adopt the Clinical Lab 2.0 model. Member labs of Project Santa Fe are themselves working to develop and

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

By Mary Van Doren

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, where Ascension Health is working to align itself with an integrated health system

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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 working to standardize lab testing activities among seven organizations, 14 hospitals,

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Cleveland Clinic Lab dramatically reduces doctors ordering unnecessary tests

By maryv, from the Volume XXV No. 7 – May 7, 2018 issue

This is an excerpt from a 2,920-word article in the May 7, 2018 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The complete article is available for a limited time to all readers, and available at all times to paid members of the Dark Intelligence Group.
CEO SUMMARY: In an insightful report, THE DARK REPORT shows how one lab

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Volume XXVI No. 8 – June 10, 2019

THE U.S. HAS LOST ALMOST 18% of its pathologists since 2007. This means the U.S. has even fewer pathologists than other countries who have already suffered adverse clinical lab quality events. TDR also digs further into what this means for the industry, finding that while salaries and benefits are increasing, higher pay will come with a heavier workload. Also, in a Clinical Lab 2.0 case study, TDR walks readers through the steps Northwell Health took to help improve patient care – and add value – by using its data to identify patients who were undiagnosed or misdiagnosed.

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