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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…

Expert Says Time is Now For Labs to Adopt QMS

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 14 – October 12, 2009 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Laboratories in the United States are knowledgeable about the use of quality control (QC) and quality assurance (QA) programs. But QC and QA represent only two small parts of a comprehensive quality management system (QMS), says Lucia Berte, an expert in lab quality. One bene…

Powerful Trends Reshaping Anatomic Path Profession

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 2 – February 11, 2008 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: THE DARK REPORT presents its newest biannual review of macro trends reshaping the anatomic pathology profession. These macro trends reveal a profession undergoing change and transformation on multiple fronts. New competitors are crowding into the market, payers and accreditin…

Labs in U.S. and Australia Learn from Each Other

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 16 – November 19, 2007 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Australia just conducted its first summit meeting on laboratory management and a near sell-out crowd showed up to learn the best and latest. For the Americans in the audience, there were several surprises. First, Australia has a highly-competitive laboratory sector, comparabl…

More Labs Actively Adopt Quality Management

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 14 – October 8, 2007 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: With almost 300 speakers, attendees, and vendors in attendance from seven countries, Lab Quality Confab was a significant milestone for the global lab industry. On one level, it was a sign that the quality improvement trend has come of age. On another level, it provided ample…

Quest South Florida Wins Governor’s Award for Quality

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 13 – September 17, 2007 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: It’s an important milestone for the clinical laboratory profession. Quest Diagnostics Incorporated South Florida, based in Deerfield Beach, Florida, earned the 2007 Florida Governor’s Sterling Award for quality. This is only the second laboratory in this country to win a …

Lean/Six Sigma in Labs Becomes More Common

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 10 – July 16, 2007 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Across healthcare, laboratories, hospitals, and health systems are leading the drive to incorporate quality management methods into clinical services and daily operations. This fall, in Atlanta, the Lab Quality Confab will provide a detailed look at this trend, with 50 speake…

June 4, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 8 – June 4, 2007 Issue

When the Lab Quality Confab convenes in Atlanta on September 19-20, 2007, it will feature 40 speakers and sessions on how labs and pathology groups are using quality management methods to improve the performance of their lab organizations. If your laboratory would like to showcase its succes…

Key Trends Drive Change for Clinical Laboratories

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 1 – January 8, 2007 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Technology plays an ever-growing role in reshaping the organization and operation of clinical laboratories. New technologies figure prominently in THE DARK REPORT’S 2007 list of key trends in the clinical laboratory industry. Technological advances in instr…

Christian Hospital Laboratory Goes Lean with Solid Results

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIII No. 4 – March 20, 2006 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: As part of a major restructuring program under way at Christian Hospital in St. Louis, Laboratory Administrator Bette J. Stanley decided to apply Lean quality management methods in projects to improve work processes in phlebotomy and the chemistry department. Using internal q…

Volume XXVII No. 9 – June 22, 2020

THE NEWS ON THE SEROLOGICAL TEST FRONT is discouraging, even bleak, as THE DARK REPORT analyzes the outcome of the FDA’s own review of 11 tests previously listed as marketable. Only three tests passed the review, and yet a quality control expert consulted by THE DARK REPORT has dim views of the FDA’s testing operation, leading to even more doubts. Also, health insurers are scraping away at mandated COVID-19 test reimbursements, leaving lab revenues once again at their mercy.

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