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How Northwellās Lab Team Demonstrated Value Over 10 Years
By Joseph Burns
CEO SUMMARY: Among hospital administrators, the popular wisdom is that their clinical lab is a cost center. This thinking leads them to consider drastic cost-management strategies that include partnering with commercial labs to manage in-hospital lab testing and the outright sale of lab o…
Cleveland Clinic Lab Has Multi-year Test Utilization Success
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 7 – May 7, 2018 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Over the 24 months of a first-generation round of laboratory test utilization management projects, the Cleveland Clinic laboratories prevented more than 30,000 duplicate or inappropriate test orders, saving almost $2.7 million. Now implementing a second-generation of labtest …
Cleveland Clinic Lab dramatically reduces doctors ordering unnecessary tests
By R. Lewis Dark | 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.Ā …
Increasing Costs for Genetic Tests Are Busting Lab Budgets
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 6 – April 20, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Across the nation, hospital administrators are recognizing that effective lab test utilization is a critical factor in a labās success. At Seattle Childrenās Hospital, clinical pathologists, clinical chemists, and laboratory genetic counselors are …
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