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Anatomic Path Trends Portend Deep Changes

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XI No. 1 – January 12, 2004 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Our biannual review of trends shaping the anatomic pathology profession reveals that a wide range of influences are active. The nation’s healthcare system is undergoing fundamental changes in how it views the quality of health services and how it will favor top-performing p…

“December 22, 2003 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 17 – December 22, 2003 Issue

Two more not-for-profit hospitals received the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award last month. St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri and Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, Florida become the second and third hospitals to receive this award for quality achie…

How “Lean” is Benefiting Early-Adopter Laboratories

By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 12 – September 8, 2003 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: First steps toward a radical change in clinical laboratory operations are under way in a handful of early-adopter laboratories. This movement is so new that little information about their successes can be published. But the early evidence is compelling. For those labs willing…

“Lean” Quality Methods Transform Core Lab In Florida Hospital

By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 11 – August 18, 2003 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: DSI Laboratories of Fort Myers, Florida became the nation’s first hospital laboratory to apply the “Lean” quality management system to a high volume core laboratory. In just 13 weeks, DSI’s Lean team created a work cell which performs 80% of the test volume in a 400-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….

First-Ever “Black Belt” Certified In an American Hospital Lab

By Robert Michel | From the Volume IX No. 5 – April 1, 2002 Issue

IT WAS A BIG DEAL in the laboratory of Grant Riverside Hospital of Columbus, Ohio when Lab Site Manager Sandra Hood received her certification as a Six Sigma Black Belt on January 23, 2002. That’s because hospital administrators had selected the laboratory to be hospital’s guine…

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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