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May 20, 2019 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVI No. 7 – May 20, 2019 Issue
Canada faces a similar shortage of medical technologists (MTs) as exists in the United States. “We have reached the point now where some laboratories have been closed for weeks due to insufficient staffing, which is a cascading problem for patients and the healthcare system,” stated Maria Klement…
April 8, 2019 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVI No. 5 – April 8, 2019 Issue
BeaconLBS announced a collaboration with MagnaCare of Garden City, N.Y., last month. The press release issued by the two companies stated that MagnaCare would use the “BeaconLBS Physician Decision Support (PDS) solution with its network of physician and laboratory…
October 22, 2018 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXV No. 15 – October 22, 2018 Issue
Efforts to enroll one million veterans in a program to determine how genetic variations affect health is moving swiftly. Current enrollment is 700,000 veterans and the one million goal is expected to be reached by 2021. In 2011, the federal Department of Veterans Affairs instituted …
Newsmaker Interview: Healthcare’s Transformation Now Bringing Changes to Lab Industry
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 3 – February 12, 2018 Issue
“Today, patients want to get diagnosis and treatment faster with fewer visits to the doctor’s office. They want speedier and more comprehensive delivery of clinical services, be it laboratory tests, imaging, or other procedures.” …
FDA Clears Waived CBC For Near-Patient Testing
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIV No. 16 – November 20, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Market clearance of the first-ever CLIA-waived analyzer for complete blood count and three-part differential tests could cut time-to-answer from days to mere minutes for one of the top 20 tests by volume performed at core laboratories. Developer Sysmex America, Inc., foresees…
For Top 20 Tests, CMS to Cut Payment by 28% in 2018-2020
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIV No. 14 – October 9, 2017 Issue
ON SEPT. 22, MEDICARE OFFICIALS RELEASED THE DRAFT PRICES for the 2018 Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule. The bad news for the lab industry is that the fee cuts are deeper than the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had predicted earlier. The price cuts to clinical la…
AMA, AHA Join Labs to Request Delay, Fix
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIV No. 14 – October 9, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In what may be a first for the clinical lab industry, the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association joined with 20 other healthcare associations to ask CMS Administrator Seema Verma to address the problems with the CMS proposal involving Medicare Part B f…
October 17, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII No. 14 – October 17, 2016 Issue
Quebec’s provincial health authority is moving forward with what may be one of the largest consolidations of clinical laboratory testing undertaken in North America during the past 30 years. The goal is to bring the lab testing currently done in as many as 500 locations throughout the province int…
Medical Technologists Who Add Value to Patient Care
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIII No. 13 – September 26, 2016 Issue
IT IS ALWAYS INSPIRING TO LEARN THE STORIES OF CLINICAL LABORATORY SCIENTISTS who spot opportunities to improve patient care, then take initiative to seize that opportunity and help patients get better. Such is the case of a medical technologist in a 25-bed rural hospital who now participates in dail…
Do Regulators Really Protect Patients, Consumers?
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIII No. 7 – May 23, 2016 Issue
IMAGINE, FOR A MOMENT, THAT ONE OF YOUR LOVED ONES had gone to Theranos during the past two years to get lab tests. Assume that your loved one was being tested for significant biomarkers that directly affected the care provided to your family member for significant health issues and that your loved o…
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