NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: Ralph Taylor, CEO of Sysmex America

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXV No. 3 – February 12, 2018 Issue

“Today, patients want to get diagnosis and treatment faster with fewer visits to the doctor’s office. They want speedier and more comprehensive delivery of clinical services, be it laboratory tests, imaging, or other procedures. Core laboratories have something unique and irreplacea…

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Newsmaker Interview: Healthcare’s Transformation Now Bringing Changes to Lab Industry

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 3 – February 12, 2018 Issue

“Today, patients want to get diagnosis and treatment faster with fewer visits to the doctor’s office. They want speedier and more comprehensive delivery of clinical services, be it laboratory tests, imaging, or other procedures.” …

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Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos Speaks at AACC To Skeptical PhDs, Pathologists, and Press

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII No. 11 – August 15, 2016 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Elizabeth Holmes, Founder and CEO of Theranos, Inc., was given the ideal platform by AACC to show the science behind her lab company’s much-touted diagnostic technologies. But in a surprise to the assembled audience, Holmes, accompanied by three PhDs on her team, chose to d…

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Lab, Emergency Department at Cleveland Clinic Collaborate to Reduce Hemolysis Rates

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 7 – May 23, 2016 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Two years ago, the rate of hemolysis in blood drawn in the Cleveland Clinic’s Emergency Department was about nine times higher than the ASCP recommended rate of 2%. With a two-year cooperative agreement and funding from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

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Newer, Smaller Analyzers Will Bring Big Data to Labs

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 10 – July 13, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Clinical laboratories of all sizes are poised to become the source of much of a hospital or health system’s “big data.” At many academic center labs, greater use of genetic and molecular testing requires that more space and more staff be devoted to data management. A…

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‘Game Changer’ Mass Spectrometry for Microbiology at UNC

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 8 – June 9, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Microbiologists at the University of North Carolina are using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry to slash the time to answer and significantly cut lab costs. Their goals are to improve patient outcomes and reduce average length of stay. In a one-year study presented last month, UNC …

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NY Hospital Closed Due to Deficiencies in Lab

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 15 – October 29, 2012 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Lab executives and pathologists have long read about the deteriorating finances at many rural hospitals, along with their struggles to recruit and retain enough skilled laboratory staff. Now the closure of the laboratory at 37-bed E.J. Noble Hospital in Gouverneur, N…

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Med Tech Finds “Grace” Aboard Lab of Mercy Ship

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 15 – October 29, 2012 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: One intrepid medical technologist has spent almost two decades in volunteer service working in the clinical laboratories of hospital ships operated by Mercy Ships International. As the world’s largest hospital ship, the Africa Mercy contains six operating rooms, a 78-bed IC…

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Lab Specimen Transport Eliminates Need for Ice

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 13 – September 17, 2012 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Because of its unique design and reliability, a new product for transporting laboratory specimens and units of blood without the use of ice and dry ice is gaining favor with innovative laboratories across the country. Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States uses this ice…

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Sarasota Hospital Lab Reduces Number of Hemolyzed Specimens

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 7 – May 14, 2012 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Seeking to improve turnaround time for stat lab tests, the laboratory at Sarasota Memorial Health Care System identified high rates of hemolysis as the chief reason for less than ideal TAT. Because 32% of blood draws were handled by the lab’s phlebotomy staff while 68% of b…

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