Value of Miraca Falls By 92% from 2011 to 2017

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 17 – December 11, 2017 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Miraca Life Sciences amended its merger agreement with Avista Capital Partners after the lab lost value in the two months since the agreement was signed in September. Factors precipitating the revision were a significant decline in reimbursement rates, stiff competition from …

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Henry Ford Health System Labs Show How Lean Methodology in Healthcare Increases Revenues

By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXIII No. 3 – February 29, 2016 Issue

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:  Here’s a major accomplishment by the lab division of a nationally-recognized health system that has gone unreported until this DARK REPORT intelligence briefing. This article explains how using the quality management system of ISO 15189 and the Lean methodology in …

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Henry Ford Health System Laboratory Division Combines Lean with ISO 15189

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 3 – February 29, 2016 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: As healthcare transitions away from fee-for-service payment and adopts new models of reimbursement, every clinical lab will need to deliver more value with its lab testing services. At Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, the laboratory division has blazed a path of improving…

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Combining Lean with Lab Automation to Get Impressive Results

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 10 – July 13, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: By combining total lab automation with Lean techniques in a comprehensive makeover of its microbiology lab, one of the largest labs providing hospital acute care and community microbiology services in North America achieved major benefits. Benefits ranged from impro…

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Labs Share Successes in Delivering More Value

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No.16 – November 24, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: As the number of accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes grows monthly, a handful of innovative labs are seizing the opportunity to develop and deliver lab testing services that add more value to physicians and patients. These early-adopter labs reco…

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Lean Used to Lay Groundwork for Lab’s 15189 Accreditation

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 2 – February 3, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Henry Ford Health System’s laboratory organization has become first in the nation to have all its laboratory sites “standardized under one source of leadership” and accredited to the standards of ISO 15189: Medical Laboratories. The journey to achieve this current state…

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Ottawa Pathology Lab Cuts Turnaround Time By More Than 50%

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No.14 – October 21, 2013 Issue

CEO Summary: Pathologists at Ottawa Hospital not only must handle a large volume of specimens regularly, but are experiencing a 14% per year growth in the number of specimens. Last year, when the average turnaround time for a case was nine days, the pathology department embarked …

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Cleveland Clinic Lab Aims to Grow Reference Testing

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 8 – June 4, 2012 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: In the national market for reference and esoteric testing, Cleveland Clinic Laboratories (CCL) is preparing to expand its presence. It has just moved into a $75 million state-of-the-art laboratory facility and wants to increase its outreach reference testing by four-fold with…

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QMS Helps Ontario Labs Cut Errors, Improve TAT

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 4 – March 12, 2012 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: In Brampton and Etobicoke, Ontario, the hospital laboratories of William Osler Health System are using the quality management system of ISO 15189 to stay ahead of two powerful trends. Combining the QMS with Lean methods allows the labs’ management and staff to continuously …

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Allina Opens State-of-the-Art Central Laboratory Facility

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 17 – December 19, 2011 Issue

THIS MONTH, THE NATION’S NEWEST “designed from scratch” clinical laboratory facility began operating in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the central laboratory of Allina Hospitals & Clinics and its design is rooted in Lean and similar process improvement and workflow principle…

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