Tag: laboratory test

Monitoring Patients on Opioids Is Opportunity for Clinical Labs

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CEO SUMMARY: When developing a program to identify and treat patients who misused opioids or needed chronic opioid therapy, Community Health Network (CHN) of Indianapolis recognized that clinical lab toxicology tests were one of the few sources of objective data about patient compliance. When CHN developed its Chronic Opioid Therapy (COT) program, protocols were included that

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Opportunity for Labs to Help with Opioid Crisis

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IT’S CALLED THE OPIOD CRISIS AND IT’S OFTEN A MAJOR STORY in the nightly news. In 2017, deaths from drug overdoses totaled 70,237, of which 68% (47,600) were opioid overdose deaths, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Across the nation, government health officials and healthcare providers struggle to address the problems of opioid

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Monitoring Patients on Opioids with Toxicology Screens Is Opportunity for Clinical Labs

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This is an excerpt of a 2,883-word article in the Sept. 23, 2019 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group.
CEO SUMMARY: In this first industry briefing on such a program, THE DARK REPORT explains that Community Health Network (CHN) of Indianapolis recognized that clinical

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In New Mexico, Three Collaborators Improve Patient Care, Outcomes

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IT’S OFFICIAL! A YEAR-LONG COLLABORATION involving a health insurer, a clinical laboratory, and an analytics company showed that insurers and physicians can use clinically-actionable intelligence developed from medical lab test data to improve patient outcomes.

This important accomplishment in patient care comes with another significant milestone: The health insurer is paying the lab outside of the

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Northwell Health Lab Team Leverages Data to Add Value

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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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Dr. Papanicolaou Honored by Google Doodle on May 13

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Pathologists and medical laboratory professionals the world over had a surprise on May 13 if they used Google for an Internet search. The doodle on the Google search home page honored pathologist Dr. Georgios Papanicolaou, who developed the Pap smear test used to screen for cervical cancer.

Papanicolaou was born in 1883 in Greece. He studied medicine in Greece and

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