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…

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Benchmarking with the Best To Be a World Class Laboratory

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII No. 5 – March 30, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: This fourth installment of this special series about the laboratory value pyramid introduces “Level Four: Use Benchmarks to Achieve Best-in-Class.” This is the highest level of the four level pyramid. When a lab organization performs at this level, it will be deliver…

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Top laboratory management requires top business skills

By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXII No. 5 – March 30, 2015 Issue

Every lab organization should aspire to achieve the attributes of Level Four: Use Benchmarks to Achieve Best-in-Class because this is the level of performance where the lab is delivering optimal clinical value at highest quality and lowest cost. This is an effort in which the business skills…

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Gearing Up the Laboratory to Exceed Expectations of External Customers

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII No. 3 – February 17, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: This is the third installment of THE DARK REPORT’S description of the Laboratory Value Pyramid. It describes “Level Three: Deliver Value that Exceeds Expectations.” This is the level where the laboratory organization now shifts its emphasis from internal operation of…

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At Mid-Year, Labs Struggle to Get Paid for Many Tests

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 10 – July 21, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: At a recent coding and billing conference, pathology and lab clients of one of the nation’s largest revenue management companies agreed that three trends have caused lower revenues since the start of 2014. One trend seen by labs involves higher deductibles and copayments fr…

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Standard Bar Code Labels Can Reduce Lab Errors

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 6 – May 6, 2013 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Standardization of bar code labels is a concept whose time has come. After implementing CLSI standard AUTO12-A, first-mover clinical labs report fewer specimen identification errors, a reduction of costs associated with specimen handling errors, and a boost in lab productivit…

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October 29, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

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

OURLab and its parent company, Prost Data, Inc., of Nashville, Tennessee, entered into an agreement to be sold to Opko Health Inc., of Miami, Florida. The purchase price of $40 million will be paid as $9.4 million in cash and $30.6 million in stock. …

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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…

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Top 10 IT Trends Send Message For Labs & Pathology Groups

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 6 – April 23, 2012 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Healthcare’s shift away from fee-for-service medicine and toward integrated clinical care is widely recognized. However, few lab administrators and pathologists are aware of the even faster transformation underway in healthcare informatics. Presented here are the “Top 10 …

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Quality Strategy Earns Honor for SD Laboratory

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 14 – October 4, 2010 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Here’s a new lab product launch with a surprise twist. Upon earning FDA clearance for its new HIV Ag/Ab Combo Assay this spring, Abbott Diagnostics selected a hospital laboratory in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to be the nation’s first clinical lab to offer the ass…

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