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Hospital Lab Outreach Still Effective Revenue Strategy
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 9 – June 18, 2018 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Despite the challenges hospital and health system laboratory outreach programs face today, there are many ways they can remain viable, according to an outreach expert from Mayo Medical Laboratories. By taking specific steps to increase volume and the value they provide, lab o…
Georgia Micro Lab Slashes TAT by Almost Two Days
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 6 – April 16, 2018 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Two projects to boost the performance of the microbiology laboratory at University Health Services in Augusta, Ga., significantly reduced test turnaround times in ways that contributed to improved patient outcomes. The first project was in 2016, when the lab introduced mass s…
Mass Spec Tests Struggle To Gain Insurers’ Attention
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 9 – June 26, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Since 2014, a toxicology lab at the University of Colorado has used mass spectrometry to offer low-cost, accurate multi-analyte test panels that can detect hundreds of therapeutic drugs and drugs of abuse. However, CU Toxicology’s chief medical officer says health insurers …
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…
Detroit Hospital Develops 10 Ways To Add More Value
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 12 – August 24, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Clinical labs are beginning to make the transition from a volume-based financial model to a model based on value-based payments. To survive this transition, labs must find ways to create value. The lab at Henry Ford Health System has identified 10 ways that it c…
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…
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…
‘Game Changer’ Mass Spectrometry for Microbiology at UNC
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 8 – June 9, 2014 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Microbiologists at the University of North Carolina are using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry to slash the time to answer and significantly cut lab costs. Their goals are to improve patient outcomes and reduce average length of stay. In a one-year study presented last month, UNC …
Clinical Labs Spending Money in New Ways
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 4 – March 17, 2014 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In response to the many changes now unfolding in the U.S. healthcare system, labs are investing their scarce capital in different ways. Five trends in lab spending can be identified. They range from expanding the informatics capabilities of a lab organization to acquiring the…
September 9, 2013 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XX No. 12 – September 9, 2013 Issue
bioMérieux is on the move. Last week it announced that it would pay $450 million to purchase privately-held BioFire Diagnostics of Salt Lake City, Utah. BioFire has a solid tech- nology base in molecular diagnostics. It developed and currently markets its FilmArray…
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Volume XXXI, No. 14 – October 14, 2024
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