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Marshfield Clinic Lab Tackles Phlebotomy Workflow Redesign

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 5 – April 11, 2016 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Before a redesign of phlebotomy workflow at Marshfield Clinic, patients might wait as long as an hour, particularly before noon when phlebotomists would see 75% of each day’s patients. After the redesign, the number of draw sites was reduced from five to two while hand…

No Disruptive Technology In Lab Industry’s Future

By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 14 – October 20, 2003 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: As new diagnostic technologies move through the development pipeline and into widespread clinical use, the scientific knowledge and skill sets needed by laboratory staff and management will change. The emphasis in laboratory medicine will evolve to include more molecular tech…

New Trends in 2003 Affect Clinical Lab Services

By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 1 – January 20, 2003 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Here’s our current list of macro trends that affect clinical laboratories, updated from the last list in January 2000. One bold prediction is that Medicare, as we know it, is on the verge of a major meltdown. Employers and consumers are also new forces to be reckoned with b…

Academic Center Lab Implementing Six Sigma

By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 16 – November 18, 2002 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Fairview-University Medical Center’s laboratory may be the nation’s first academic center laboratory to deploy Six Sigma and Lean management systems. Administration expects Six Sigma to accelerate the rate at which improvements in quality and productivity can be realized….

Volume XXXI, No. 5 – April 8, 2024

The fragmentation of consumer markets is reflected in clinical lab services, and The Dark Report examines this trend and how it will impact labs in the coming years. Also, The Dark Report notes that the FDA has issued a controversial memo to reclassify many high-risk IVD assays.

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