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MT/MLT Distance Learning Goal of Collaboration: ARUP and Weber State team up to make it easier for interested lab staff to advance skills

CEO SUMMARY: To encourage more students to pursue medical technology (MT) and medical laboratory technician (MLT) degrees, ARUP Laboratories and Weber State University (WSU) are collaborating to promote the distance learning programs offered at WSU. Online students can work any shift and take courses anytime (day, night, or on weekends), thereby making education more accessible

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GHSU Graduates Med Techs Using Distance Training

By Robert Michel, from the Volume XIX No. 2 - January 30, 2012 issue

CEO SUMMARY: Many clinical labs experiencing a shortage of trained medical laboratory scientists (MLS) in their city continue to overlook how the use of distance training programs could help them attract and retain top-performers. Leaders of the clinical laboratory scientist (CLS) distance training program at Georgia Health Sciences University (GHSU) say distance students are enthusiastic

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‘Salary Power’ Helps Lab Recruit and Train New MTs

By Robert Michel, from the Volume XIX No. 1 - January 9, 2012 issue

CEO SUMMARY: It was back in 2002 when THE DARK REPORT highlighted the innovative use of MT and MLT long distance training by PeaceHealth Laboratories (formerly Oregon Medical Labs). Distance training is part of a comprehensive program to attract individuals in the community with two-year and four-year degrees and give them an “earn while they

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New Clinical Lab Trends To Shape Events in 2010

By Robert Michel, from the Volume XVII No. 1 - January 4, 2010 issue

CEO SUMMARY: In presenting this list of macro trends for clinical laboratories, several themes are in play. They range from a continued emphasis on improving lab operations to the need to acquire and deploy sophisticated information technology. During the next few years, the long-predicted retirement of Baby Boomers will kick in. That will aggravate the

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Auckland Health Boards Give DML Some Testing

By Robert Michel, from the Volume XVI No. 14 October 12, 2009 issue

CEO SUMMARY: Auckland’s chaotic lab testing situation just became more complicated. Today the Auckland District Health Boards announced a four-year contract to allow Diagnostic Medlab to perform 10% of the area’s test volume, primarily for private hospitals and private specialists. Its purpose is to take some pressure off Labtests by having Diagnostic Medlab perform the

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MT/MLT Distance Learning Goal of Collaboration

By Robert Michel, from the Volume XV No. 11 - August 18, 2008 issue

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OML Graduates First Distance-Learning MTs

By Robert Michel, from the Volume XII No. 15 - October 24, 2005 issue

CEO SUMMARY: Faced with staffing shortages and a ready pool of B.S. graduates in the local community, two years ago, Oregon Medical Laboratories decided to use long-distance learning programs to recruit and train employees interested in earning certification as MTs and MLTs. This business strategy paid off. The first group of students has graduated and

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Houston Lab Fills Gap For Katrina Evacuees

By Robert Michel, from the Volume XII No. 13 - September 12, 2005 issue

CEO SUMMARY: Literally overnight, Houston found itself dealing with tens of thousands of evacuees fleeing the destruction in New Orleans and surrounding areas. Many evacuees arrived in poor health. The Harris County Hospital District laboratorians of Houston pitched in to create an emergency laboratory support system that was surprisingly sophisticated. Here’s how labs in Houston

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JCAHO, NQF CEOs Speak to Lab’s Future Role

By Robert Michel, from the Volume XII No. 7 - May 9, 2005 issue

CEO SUMMARY: What an opportunity! On the same podium were the presidents of both the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and the National Quality Forum (NQF), specifically to speak about laboratory medicine’s role in the evolution of the nation’s healthcare system. Their opinions and predictions provide useful clues to what lies ahead

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Bi-Annual Look at Trends Reshaping Clinical Labs

By Robert Michel, from the Volume XII No. 2 - January 24, 2005 issue

CEO SUMMARY: Among other things, we declare the end to the heyday of the independent commercial lab company which offers a broad test menu to all types of office-based physicians. In its place springs forth the specialty or niche testing laboratory. Small and focused on a specific number of reference and esoteric tests, the number

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Volume XXVI No. 2 – February 4, 2019

NOW THAT MOST HOSPITALS ARE INCLUDED as applicable laboratories that must report their PAMA private payer lab test price data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, managers of those labs will benefit from the incisive analysis in this issue of the lessons learned during the 2017 PAMA reporting cycle. THE DARK REPORT further offers recommendations on how labs can do a better job of gathering and reporting their own data to CMS. Also, TDR delivers an exclusive analysis of why the Government Accounting Office's assertion that CMS will be paying billions more for Part B clinical lab tests is simply wrong.

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