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Mass Spectrometry, Collaboration Produce Dramatic Results
CEO SUMMARY: When the Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine at the Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, worked with the Pharmacy Services Department, the outcome was a dramatic reduction in the time needed to more accurately identify and treat the pathogens causing gram-negative b…
Mass Spectrometry Is Finding Larger Role in Clinical Labs
CEO SUMMARY: Mass spectrometry is a diagnostic technology that is transforming clinical labs and improving care at a rapid pace. The current generation of instruments is capable of supporting a faster time-to-answer and provides improved accuracy and specificity over many existing methods…
How Digital Pathology Helps Pathologists Deliver Added Value
“Pathologists have the opportunity to take on a new clinical role as the integrator of all that digital pathology information, in combination with the patient’s other clinical data collected from a wide variety of sources.” —Dirk G. Soenksen, M.S., M.B.A., Founder…
Serious Problems Plague Newfoundland Laboratory
CEO SUMMARY: Newfoundland’s St. John laboratory was rocked by revelations in February that its cyclosporine testing was flawed, exposing patients to the harmful affects from inappropriately high doses of the immunosuppressant drug. Within weeks of this news, the Chief of Laboratory Medi…
Thermo Electron, Fisher To Do “Reverse Merger”
CEO SUMMARY: Bigger is expected to be better as Fischer Scientific International, Inc. and Thermo Electron Corporation come together by year’s end and form a $9 billion behemoth in the laboratory supply industry. With 350,000 customers in 150 countries,…
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Volume XXX, No. 8 – May 30, 2023
Much lies underneath the surface of UnitedHealthcare’s (UHC) new policy mandating Z-code use for molecular tests covered under its commercial health plans. This development, which creates headaches for many genetic testing companies, is analyzed in depth here. Also, one company shows how data analytics improves lab productivity and TAT.
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