New Opportunities for Your Laboratory’s LIS-EMR Interface: How to Profit From the “Big Wave” About to Hit Healthcare |
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“Meaningful use,” radiology ordering,
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| During this audio conference you and your staff will get an unprecedented look at why EMR vendors fail to accommodate clinical-laboratory and anatomic-pathology test ordering and reporting. Then, we’ll show you the easiest, fastest, and least expensive ways for your lab to beef up its LIS-EMR interface, allowing physicians-working inside their EMRs-to seamlessly order tests, view results, and research lab test topics in a way that supports their own personal work flow.
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Susan Stegall
Succession Planning Essentials: Preparing Your Lab for the Coming Wave of Retiring Managers and Staff |
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How to prepare new talent for the looming retirement of
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| If your laboratory doesn’t have a succession plan, your operational and financial viability could be in jeopardy. That’s because many baby boomers working in your lab are already eligible for Social Security and are beginning to retire, leaving you with the difficult task of finding good people to replace them.
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New Legal Issues and Regulatory Changes and Their Potential Impact on Clinical Laboratories and Pathology Group |
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 Jane Pine Wood |
How to keep your lab legal and compliant with the new requirements |
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Recently-enacted laws and new regulatory requirements are creating new risks for clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups, especially those that remain unaware of the new laws or fail to respond in appropriate ways. To help your lab stay “street legal” and fully compliant, join us for a special legal/regulatory audio conference. These new laws cover a lot of ground-from specific requirements on how laboratories can help physicians’ offices acquire EMRs (electronic medical record systems) to new HIPAA disclosure rules that require labs to publicly disclose events that caused a potential breach in patient privacy.
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New Managed Care Contracting Trends, Issues, and Opportunities for Clinical Labs and Pathology Groups |
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 Laura Chaney
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The secrets of successful managed care contracting for your lab |
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Every year at contract renewal time, you’re faced with the same concern: How can you negotiate the best possible managed care contract for your clinical lab or pathology practice? The real secret to successful managed care contracting is to first understand your market, then determine how you can best position your lab in it. You’ll end up with a strategy that can help you better navigate the contract process.
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Pathology and Radiology’s Combined Future is Now
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 Ossama W. Tawfik |
Disruptive Clinical Practice Model Ready for Widespread Adoption |
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In a pioneering effort at The University of Kansas, a radiologist and a pathologist are working side by side to review each other’s primary images and issue a single, integrated diagnostic report for breast cancer patients. The big surprise from this groundbreaking collaboration is a measurable improvement in diagnostic accuracy, leading to improved patient outcomes. If you’re a pathologist or radiologist, what does this mean for you? More than likely, it means a future of increased collaboration. Instead of separate clinical silos, pathologists and radiologists will work side by side, sharing each other’s primary images and producing a single, unified diagnostic report for clinicians.
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Lab Managers: How to Become A Better Coach and Create a More Productive Working Environment |
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 Jeff Smith |
Help your staff—and yourself—advance to higher levels of responsibility and accomplishments |
| As a lab manager, part of your job is staff development—getting members of your team to take on more responsibility and eventually become managers themselves. But if you were never taught how to develop employees—and many managers weren’t—you’re probably wondering where to begin.
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Laboratory and Pathology Mergers & Acquisition Activity |
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 Christopher Jahnle |
How Recent Sales and The Current Economy Could Impact the Value of Your Lab |
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The economic downturn has certainly made a big difference in laboratory merger & acquisition (M&A) activity. While we saw record prices for clinical labs and pathology practices in 2008, pricing and demand have been tempered by the economic changes in 2009. But it’s not all bad news. If you’ve been holding off selling your lab, the wait could be over. But here’s a way to find out for sure!
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