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Combating Antimicrobial Resistance: Aligning Policy, Advocacy, and Scientific Innovation
This white paper serves as a practical guide to enhance the understanding of the POCT team regarding critical success factors and essential functions needed to sustain compliance and produce reliable results. It focuses on the tangible aspects of good laboratory practice and regulatory compliance in routine and urgent patient care settings. This resource will be particularly beneficial to nursing and other clinical staff involved in patient testing.
Guide to AI-Enabled Revenue Cycle Management for Molecular Diagnostics and Pathology Practices
In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, molecular diagnostics and pathology laboratories face increasing challenges in maximizing revenue. Accurately estimating out-of-pocket costs and collecting payments efficiently can be challenging, often leading to delays and patient dissatisfaction. Additionally, ensuring timely and accurate claim submissions is crucial for maximizing revenue, but manual processes can be time-consuming and error-prone.
Best Practices in Molecular Assay Validation for Laboratory-Developed Tests
This comprehensive white paper is designed to be your go-to guide, providing invaluable insights into critical success factors and essential functions crucial for maintaining compliance and delivering reliable results. Tailored for clinical molecular laboratory staff, this resource delves into the tangible aspects of compliant method validation, offering practical strategies for proving the accuracy and efficacy of laboratory-developed tests (LDTs).
Point of Care Testing for Infectious Diseases: Navigating CLIA Compliance and Ensuring Quality
This white paper serves as a practical guide to enhance the understanding of the POCT team regarding critical success factors and essential functions needed to sustain compliance and produce reliable results. It focuses on the tangible aspects of good laboratory practice and regulatory compliance in routine and urgent patient care settings. This resource will be particularly beneficial to nursing and other clinical staff involved in patient testing.
Virus Surveillance: Empowering Communities Through Early Genotypic Testing for HIV Drug Resistance
Covering genotypic testing for drug-resistant mutations, virus cluster detection and response, and programs in action, this free white paper is for health laboratory directors interested in reducing the impact of HIV drug resistance.
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This special report provides an overview of Lean Six Sigma concepts and illustrates how the model serves as a useful ally for labs in the current clinical diagnostic environment. Organizations that adopt the Lean Six Sigma methodology learn how to reduce waste, cut costs, improve quality and enhance outcomes.
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CDC Enlists Five Commercial Medical Laboratories to Bolster Avian Flu Testing Capacity in the United States
Move comes following criticism from public health experts over the federal agency’s difficulties creating clinical laboratory tests for COVID-19 Amid the ongoing outbreak of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) bird flu virus, the US Centers for Disease...
ECG Management Consultants Survey Determines US Patients Wait an Average of 38 Days for Care
Patients outside the US wait even longer to see healthcare specialists with some appointments scheduled a year out in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia Data recently released by healthcare consulting firm ECG Management Consultants (ECG) reveals that patients in...
Brigham and Women’s Hospital Researchers Develop Blood Test That Enables Rapid Diagnosis of LVO Stroke in Non-hospital Settings
New technique could allow emergency responders to determine severity of LVO stroke while patient is still in the ambulance Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Massachusetts say they have developed a clinical laboratory test that can quickly determine...
European Researchers Discover Gut Bacteria That Can Help Create Universal O-Type Blood
Should further study validate these findings, clinical laboratories managing hospital blood banks would be among the first to benefit from an abundance of universal donor blood In a surprising outcome for microbiome research, scientists at the Technical University of...
Iranian Study Shows Staggering Carcinogenic Risk in Hospital Laboratories from Occupational Exposure to Deadly Chemicals
Study found highest incidences of occupational carcinogenesis among clinical laboratory and histology technicians, followed by pathologists It has been known for years that formalin (a form of formaldehyde used as a disinfectant and preservative in the handling of...
University of Missouri-Kansas City Study Finds Colorectal Cancer Cases Up 500% among Children
Trend will likely lead to physicians ordering more clinical laboratory screening tests for cancer among all age groups, including young patients Upticks in colorectal cancer cases among younger populations, as reported in recent news stores, is an issue that has...
Mass General Brigham Joins with Best Buy Health to Create Country’s Largest Hospital-at-Home Program
Clinical laboratories with mobile phlebotomy programs are positioned to benefit as demand for at-home blood draws increases Hospital-at-Home (HaH) models of remote healthcare continue to pick up speed. The latest example comes from the 793-bed Mass General Brigham...
Keio University and Broad Institute Researchers Identify 18 Bacterial Strains That Could Help Patients with Gastrointestinal Illnesses
Findings could lead to new therapies and clinical laboratory biomarkers for detecting and defeating antibiotic-resistant bacteria Once again, new research shows that human gut bacteria (microbiota) may be useful in fighting antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections....
Genetic Tests Are Detecting Prevalence of Bird Flu Virus in US Wastewater and Allowing Officials to Track its Spread
Though PCR clinical laboratory testing is widely used, some scientists are concerned its specificity may limit the ability to identify all variants of bird flu in wastewater Wastewater testing of infectious agents appears to be here to stay. At the same time, there...
Washington University Researchers Uses Medical Laboratory Test Results and Big Data to Find Accelerated Aging and Risk of Early Cancer in Young Adults
Study shows that computer analysis of clinical laboratory test results has improved greatly in recent years Studies using “big data” continue to show how combining different types of healthcare information can generate insights not available with smaller datasets. In...
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