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ARUP Laboratories Earns CAP’s ISO 15189 Accreditation
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 5 – April 3, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Being accredited to this internationally recognized standard for quality and competence communicates to clients and prospective clients that one of the nation’s largest clinical labs is committed to the highest standards of quality. Clients already knew about that commitmen…
Giving Back to the Clinical Lab Profession
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIII No. 5 – April 11, 2016 Issue
MANY OF US ARE CONCERNED about how the next generation of clinical lab and anatomic pathology leaders will be trained and prepared to step up and assume responsibility for the clinical excellence and financial performance of their respective lab organizations. To contribute to the training of prom…
Manhattan Labs Gets Infusion of Equity Cash – February 11, 2013
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XX No. 2 February 11, 2013 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Manhattan Labs tapped a private equity company for growth capital last month. The company says its strategy is to deliver concierge-level quality lab services to the…
Labs Share Successes in Delivering More Value
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No.16 – November 24, 2014 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: As the number of accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes grows monthly, a handful of innovative labs are seizing the opportunity to develop and deliver lab testing services that add more value to physicians and patients. These early-adopter labs reco…
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…
2013’s Top Ten Lab Stories Point to Tougher Times
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XX, No. 17 – December 23, 2013 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: For 2013, the big story was money—or, more accurately, less money for providers. This was not limited to clinical labs and pathology groups, but was equally true of hospitals and physicians. In THE DARK REPORT’S annual lookback at the year’s 10…
Broward Health’s Lab Pursues Multiple Ways to Cut Lab Costs
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 15 – November 11, 2013 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Tasked with cutting $2 million from their lab’s annual operating budget, the lab team at Broward Health System instituted changes that included a lab test formulary and ordering algorithms. In collaboration with physicians, these changes reduced the use of outmoded tests wh…
Nation’s Lab Innovators Attack Systemic Errors
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XX No.14 – October 21, 2013 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: One keynote speaker at this year’s Lab Quality Confab meeting tackled the sensitive subject of recurring bad quality within the lab and the costs associated with it. Lucia M. Berte, MA, MT(ASCP), showed a rapt audience how many sources of recurring bad quality exist and why…
Labs Push to Cut Costs As Budgets, Prices Shrink
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XX No. 11 – August 13, 2013 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Cost-cutting is now the prime directive at progressive labs because nearly every laboratory organization in the United States is under sustained financial pressure. This is due to shrinking budgets for hospital labs and more aggressive price-cutting by private payers. Even Ob…
Intermountain Seeks Shared Accountability
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 2 February 11, 2013 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Intermountain Healthcare is one of the nation’s largest and most respected institutions. Its quality improvement efforts are well documented. Intermountain is pursuing an ambitious goal to limit cost increases to the rate of inflation. To reach this goal, every clinical dep…
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