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Lab, Emergency Department at Cleveland Clinic Collaborate to Reduce Hemolysis Rates

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 7 – May 23, 2016 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Two years ago, the rate of hemolysis in blood drawn in the Cleveland Clinic’s Emergency Department was about nine times higher than the ASCP recommended rate of 2%. With a two-year cooperative agreement and funding from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

Anticipating Washington’s Next Blows to Lab Testing

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XX No. 4 – March 25, 2013 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: With the advent of 2013, almost every lab was responding to some type of price cut. Clinical labs are dealing with the sequential, multi-year cuts to the Medicare Part B Lab Test Price Schedule. Anatomic pathology labs are still adjusting to the expiration of the TC Grandfath…

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 …

ISO 15189 Accreditation Requires Specific Steps For Global Recognition

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 6 – April 19, 2010 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: This intelligence briefing is the third in an ongoing series about quality management systems (QMS) and their role in advancing the performance of clinical laboratories and improving the quality of the testing services they provide. ISO 15189 is a set of standards for medical…

Private Equity Firms: Ready to Buy More Labs?

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 16 – November 14, 2005 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Times are good in the laboratory industry. At least that’s the opinion of a growing number of professional investors. They are searching throughout the country for laboratories to acquire. They are motivated by the consistent financial performance of many lab companies, bot…

Diversifying Lab Management’s “Gene Pool” of Methods

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XI No. 3 – February 23, 2004 Issue

I ENCOURAGE OUR CLIENTS AND REGULAR READERS to give careful thought to the intelligence findings provided by our editor about the unfolding laboratory joint venture in Cincinnati between LabOne, Inc. and The Health Alliance. (See …

LabOne in Cincinnati: Watch Events Unfold

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XI No. 3 – February 23, 2004 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: It’s another example of a commercial laboratory taking over the laboratory assets of a multi-hospital consolidated laboratory. Will LabOne manage these assets and get more growth, more cost savings, and more profit? If this happens, it will mark the third time in r…

Laboratory Regionalization Enters a New Phase

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume VII No. 6 – April 17, 2000 Issue

REGIONALIZATION OF LABORATORY SERVICES has been the primary theme behind all major changes to the clinical lab industry since the mid-1980s. There have been several phases, such as commercial lab consolidation, and hospital lab consolidation. But a constant factor underlying each of these phases has …

Shared Lab Organizations Evolving Into New Forms

By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 6 – April 17, 2000 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: For two decades, the limited number of laboratory joint ventures that appeared were invariably partnerships between commercial labs and hospital labs. Today’s hostile healthcare environment makes it tougher for these types of joint ventures to prosper and meet the needs all…

“State of Lab Industry” Holds Surprises for All

By Robert Michel | From the Volume VII No. 1 – January 3, 2000 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Say goodbye to several of the trends which shaped the lab industry during the 1990s, such as consolidation and government compliance programs. Although these trends won’t completely disappear, they will be superseded by a number of new transformational influences. During th…

Volume XXXI, No. 16 – November 25, 2024

Two different federal lawsuits that challenge the authority of the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) will be combined. Plaintiffs and the government in both cases agreed to move forward on this basis.

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