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Brooklyn Toxicology Lab Suspended for 30 Days by NY Department of Health
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 13 – September 26, 2016 Issue
IN BROOKLYN, N.Y., a toxicology laboratory has been shut down temporarily since Sept. 9 by order of the New York State Department of Health. The lab was cited for failing to perform calibration and quality control procedures properly, The lab company is Advanced Clinical Laboratory Solutions…
Lab Industry to Confront Major Issues during 2015
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII No. 1 – January 5, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Will 2015 turn out to be a watershed year for the clinical laboratory industry? Not only are two federal agencies pushing forward with initiatives that will touch nearly every medical lab in the United States in the next 12 months, but other equally powerful trends c…
Healthcare Cost Solutions Will Continue to Pinch Lab Industry Revenues in 2015
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXII No. 1 – January 5, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Will 2015 turn out to be a watershed year for the clinical laboratory industry? With healthcare cost solutions continuing to squeeze laboratory profits, two federal agencies are pushing forw…
UCLA, Centre to Open Lab in China to Offer High Quality Testing
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 7 – May 19, 2014 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: To fill the unmet demand for quality clinical laboratory testing in China, a partnership between pathologists at UCLA and Centre Testing International Corp. of Shenzen have built and will operate a lab facility in Shanghai. The new lab will open by late September and…
Eastern Canada’s Latest Lab Errors Get Attention
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 4 – March 17, 2014 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Authorities for Eastern Health in Newfoundland and Labrador province in Canada are conducting a root cause analysis after finding discrepancies in breast cancer testing that affected nine patients. Health officials said these cases were discovered as a result of an improved q…
Quality Assurance Regs to Tighten for UK Labs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 2 – February 3, 2014 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In the United Kingdom, a window of opportunity has opened for improving the quality assurance activities of pathology and histopathology laboratories. Last week, at the Frontiers in Laboratory Medicine conference, the newly-published “Pathology Quality Assurance Review” w…
Sonora Quest Builds EMPI To Serve Patients and ACOs
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 1 – January 13, 2014 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Probably no state has seen a faster transition to ACOs, medical homes, and other types of integrated clinical care organizations than Arizona. Recognizing that this change created a new opportunity to add more value with clinical lab testing services, Sonora Quest Laboratorie…
Nation’s Lab Innovators Attack Systemic Errors
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XX No.14 – October 21, 2013 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: One keynote speaker at this year’s Lab Quality Confab meeting tackled the sensitive subject of recurring bad quality within the lab and the costs associated with it. Lucia M. Berte, MA, MT(ASCP), showed a rapt audience how many sources of recurring bad quality exist and why…
New Business Helps Reduce Pathology Specimen ID Errors
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 17 – December 10, 2012 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Prevention of diagnostic testing errors is getting more attention by both physicians and pathology labs because patients are less tolerant of potentially life-changing errors. Strand Diagnostics’ Know Error system is designed to reduce or eliminate errors involving tissue s…
Pathologists Benefit from Hospital Lab Consulting
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 17 – December 10, 2012 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Deteriorating finances at many rural hospitals and smaller community hospitals is a growing trend. It is also a new consulting opportunity for local pathologists because financially-strapped hospitals often give their labs inadequate working capital and lack the staff needed …
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