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Leveraging Custom Software For Enhanced Financial Management in a Laboratory
In today’s fast-paced healthcare environment, laboratories face increasing pressure to deliver accurate results quickly while adhering to stringent quality and regulatory standards and maintaining financial health. Custom software automation can be the key to unlocking your lab’s full potential. This white paper will present a case study exploring the benefits of software automation in three key areas of genetics laboratory administration: clinical laboratory operations, accounts payable, and claims management.
Combating Antimicrobial Resistance: Aligning Policy, Advocacy, and Scientific Innovation
This white paper serves as a practical guide to enhance the understanding of Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which is a growing global health crisis that threatens human, animal, and environmental health. AMR results in higher rates of illness and death, as infections become increasingly difficult to manage, and it is projected to surpass cancer as the leading cause of death by 2050, underscoring the critical importance of addressing this issue across local, state, and global levels.
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
When it comes to point-of-care (POC) testing for infectious diseases, a meticulously crafted quality system is not just an option—it’s a necessity. Ensuring safety and satisfaction hinges on having the right practices in place. 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 POC teams outside the clinical laboratory, this resource delves into the tangible aspects of good laboratory practice and regulatory compliance, offering practical knowledge applicable to both routine and urgent patient care settings.
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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Tracking 20 Years of Rising Health Insurance Costs and Their Impact on Patients and Employees
Clinical laboratories are being squeezed on both sides as rising healthcare costs affect their patients while increasing health plan costs impact their employees’ health coverage When UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered on Dec. 4, the nation’s attention...
International Researchers Draft Consensus Document That Establishes Framework for Microbiome Testing
Microbiologists and clinical laboratory professionals should play a key role in the ordering and use of microbiome testing International experts in the field of microbiome testing recently published a consensus document that establishes guidelines for the use and...
Next-Generation Sequencing Allows Mayo Clinic Researchers to Produce Large Dataset of Patients’ Exomes
Nearly 100,000 patients submitted saliva samples to a genetic testing laboratory, providing insights into their disease risk Researchers at Mayo Clinic have employed next-generation sequencing technology to produce a massive collection of exome data from more than...
Hospital Bills Insured Woman $18k for Biopsy Procedure the Healthcare Provider’s Online Patient Payment Estimator Said Would Typically Cost Uninsured Patients $1,400
Though the No Surprises Act was enacted to prevent such surprise billing, key aspects of the legislation are apparently not being enforced Dani Yuengling thought she had properly prepared herself for the financial impact of a breast biopsy. After all, it’s a simple...
International Team of Scientists Uses Blood Proteins as Biomarkers to More Accurately Predict Risk for Diseases
What researchers call “the largest proteomic study in the world” could lead to new clinical laboratory assays for determining genetic risk for multiple cancers Examining blood proteins may be superior to clinical information in determining an individual’s risk for...
Becker’s Hospital Review Ranks 16 Healthcare Systems with the Largest Investment in EHR Platforms
Compilation shows US Veterans Administration spent the most at $16B Clinical laboratory leaders and pathologists will be interested in which hospital systems are making the largest investments in electronic health record (EHR) technologies. Especially considering...
Uniformed Services University and Northwestern University Researchers Discover How a Hardy Microbe Resists Lethal Amounts of Ionizing Radiation
Pathology professor developed a synthetic compound based on the mighty microbe that could lead to new forms of protection from deadly radiation Researchers at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) and Northwestern University (NWU) have discovered...
Employers Adopt New Alternative to Group Coverage to Cut Health Insurance Costs
ICHRAs allow companies to compensate employees for insurance purchased in individual markets and may help clinical laboratories reduce patient bad debt Both employees and their employers are frustrated with current options for health coverage. Now, a recent report...
British Researchers Discover Common Mouth Bacteria That ‘Melts’ Head and Neck Cancers
Bacteria could become new biomarker for testing patients’ reaction to cancer treatments which would give microbiologists and clinical laboratories a new tool for aiding diagnosis and in the selection of appropriate therapies In a surprising study conducted at King’s...
American Society of Radiology Leaders Identify Seven ‘Most Pressing’ Challenges to Radiology Profession
Managers of pathology groups and clinical laboratories can learn from the challenges confronting the radiology profession Members of the Intersociety Committee of the American Society of Radiology (ACR) recently met in Coronado, Calif., to discuss the “most pressing”...
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