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June 13, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII No. 8 – June 13, 2016 Issue
Life insurers are adopting healthcare big data as part of their underwriting process and clinical laboratory test data has an important role. Quest Diagnostics Incorporated participates in this business line. Huffington Post recently published a story on this topic and ident…
May 23, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII No. 7 – May 23, 2016 Issue
Patients of Health Diagnostic Laboratories who were tested between 2009 and 2014 are now being dunned by a collection agency! Creditors in the HDL bankruptcy case have engaged a Florida collection agency to go after 9,000 accounts. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, t…
May 2, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII No. 6 – May 2, 2016 Issue
Like the Sword of Damocles of Greek myth, market price reporting by labs under the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) continues to hang over the heads of the nation’s clinical laboratories. However, instead of a threat, PAMA market price reporting may soon become a reality. News reports indi…
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…
Process Improvement Coming to Healthcare
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. – October 8, 2012 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: One new byword coming to healthcare in the United States is the “continuously-learning healthcare system.” At the upcoming Lab Quality Confab in San Antonio next month, lab managers and pathologists can learn more about how to achieve and sustain continuous improvement in…
More Labs Actively Adopt Quality Management
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 14 – October 8, 2007 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: With almost 300 speakers, attendees, and vendors in attendance from seven countries, Lab Quality Confab was a significant milestone for the global lab industry. On one level, it was a sign that the quality improvement trend has come of age. On another level, it provided ample…
Lean/Six Sigma in Labs Becomes More Common
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 10 – July 16, 2007 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Across healthcare, laboratories, hospitals, and health systems are leading the drive to incorporate quality management methods into clinical services and daily operations. This fall, in Atlanta, the Lab Quality Confab will provide a detailed look at this trend, with 50 speake…
June 4, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 8 – June 4, 2007 Issue
When the Lab Quality Confab convenes in Atlanta on September 19-20, 2007, it will feature 40 speakers and sessions on how labs and pathology groups are using quality management methods to improve the performance of their lab organizations. If your laboratory would like to showcase its succes…
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