TAG:
patient record
Health Guru Predicts End to Medical Errors
CEO SUMMARY: One of the most exciting developments in patient safety is that it is now possible to begin eliminating adverse events in healthcare, declared Lucien Leape, M.D., Professor of Health Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. Leape bases his prediction on how pioneer hosp…
Emerging Global Trends in How Labs Are Using āDistributed Computingā
āIn several different countries, laboratories already use ādistributed computingā, in the form of a single LIS data center that provides informatics services to as many as 25 laboratories in a region. The trend is to increase interoperability and portability of the i…
Why Labs Will Increase their Use of Middleware and Informatics
āAcross the globe, laboratories face similar and significant challenges in how they use information technology and middleware to solve problems.ā āJacques Baudin, Executive Vice President, Technidata America Medical Software CEO SUMMARY: Midd…
Lab Tests in Pharmacies, Genzyme, Healthe, Singing River Hospital, VA
IT IS OFTEN SUGGESTED that pharmacies are a logical place to combine laboratory testing with prescription services. Such an arrangement would be consumer-friendly and has the potential to improve patient care while lowering costs. In Great Britain, the National Health Service has launched a pilot pr…
GE Healthcare Will Acquire IDX Systems for $1.2 Billion
BIG CORPORATIONS continue racing to create the universal EMR (Electronic Medical Record) and a fully-integrated healthcare informatics platform. Last Thursday, September 29, General Electric Co. announced that it would pay $1.2 billion to acquire IDX Systems Corporation …
Amazing New IT Products Arriving in Healthcare Market
TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS are triggering a flow of remarkable new information technology (IT) products into the healthcare marketplace. Not all of these products will gain a foothold, but some have the potential to trigger radical changes in how information flows between patient, provider, and payer. H…
Victim of First HIPAA-Convicted Crime Tells Story & Offers Advice to Labs
āI figured the hospital would be subject to a multi-million dollar HIPAA lawsuit if my hospital records were proven breachedāwhich is exactly what happened.ā āEric Drew, cancer patient and patient identity theft victim CEO SUMMARY: Eric Dre…
Labs in United Kingdom Pressured to Change
CEO SUMMARY: Across the United Kingdom, the physical lay-out, instrumentation, and operation of laboratories is very close to that of laboratories in the United States and Canada. The source of most differences is how the healthcare system in the United Kingdom funds clinical services and…
“July 19, 2004 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
A transfusion of the wrong type of blood may have contributed to the death of a critically ill woman at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Florida last month. The patient died about a day after the transfusion. Following the blood transfusion, a reaction had been observed. Atten…
Pathologist Activities Evolve In VAās āPaperlessā Hospitals
āWhen a hospital or laboratory goes āpaperlessā, itās no longer ābusiness as usualā for pathologists.ā āBruce Dunn, M.D. CEO SUMMARY: One outcome of the Veteran Administrationās (VA) ongoing effort to create a totally-integrated i…
CURRENT ISSUE
Volume XXXI, No. 6 – April 29, 2024
Laboratory managers will want to note that The Dark Report itself was targeted by the fraudsters who hit Change Health in a cyberattack. Also, one lab has some innovative methods of combatting the chronic staffing shortage, including hiring college graduates and students.
See the full table of contentsHow Much Laboratory Business Intelligence Have You Missed?
Lab leaders rely on THE DARK REPORT for actionable intelligence on important developments in the business of laboratory testing. Maximize the money you make-and the money you keep! Best of all, it is released every three weeks!
Sign up for TDR Insider
Join the Dark Intelligence Group FREE and get TDR Insider FREE!
Never miss a single update on the issues that matter to you and your business.