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Clinical Laboratories Under Pressure: Exploring Options to Re-establish Critical Relevancy and Maintain Independence
As a clinical laboratory leader, it’s important for you to understand why selling the lab will not solve core problems like overutilization, low-value testing, inappropriate use of high-cost testing, and provider confusion over best test choice which can lead to irrelevant results.
Rather, when you take action to build value within your lab, you can effectively transform it into a strategic unit that drives clinical and financial value for itself and for the organization it serves. Learn how by downloading this FREE White Paper, first in a three-part series developed in collaboration with Mayo Clinic Laboratories and Change Healthcare.
Clinical Laboratory Information System Implementation Brief: What You Need to Know About LIS Installations, Conversions, and Interface Projects
A recent LIS market report shows that demand for a modern LIS is driven by a number of factors: acceleration of laboratory automation, the need for improved lab efficiency, advances in integrated functionality, importance of compliance with regulatory requirements, and the rising prevalence of chronic diseases.
Indeed, because all laboratories are now routinely being asked to do more with less, these and numerous other urgent reasons are compelling independent and hospital laboratories to invest resources in a major laboratory information implementation or upgrade.
Patient Access Antidote: Retaining More Revenue with Front-End Solutions
Healthcare delivery and reimbursement models have undergone a paradigm shift; specifically, patient financial liability has significantly affected clinical laboratories and pathology groups, changing the way our businesses operate. In order to profitably provide care, it has been crucial for labs to modernize their collection practices—yet many struggle to do so.
With proper focus on front-end patient access management, labs and pathology groups become better equipped to optimize their cash flow and successfully meet their key revenue cycle objectives—a critical achievement for the financially-healthy, high-performing lab organization.
How to Create a Patient-centered Lab with Breakthrough Blood Collection Technology: Microsampling takes blood collection out of the clinic
Breakthrough methods in blood collection technology have the ability to expedite your lab’s move to patient-centered care, as well as answer the challenges of changing remote patient requirements. The Dark Report is pleased to offer this FREE White Paper, an ideal resource for those interested in new microsampling technology—what it is, how it works, and how it can transform your lab.
How Next-Generation Sequencing Helps Molecular Laboratories Deliver Personalized Medicine Services to their Client Physicians
Personalized and predictive medicine are rapidly becoming a reality. As a result, your clinical diagnostic laboratory’s need for a laboratory information management system (LIMS) designed to accommodate personalized medicine’s informatics integration and workflow challenges has become vital. The Dark Report is pleased to offer this FREE White Paper, providing a detailed discussion on how you can unlock the potential of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology in your lab, and the benefits and contributions it can make to add clinical value and improve patient care.
The Path to More Revenue: Cloud-Based LIMS, Mobile Apps, and Point-of-Care Telehealth
The performance capability of your laboratory’s LIS goes way beyond its ability to participate in these new value-based care initiatives—the right LIS is critical to your practice to ensure success and increased revenue.
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Some Hospitals Under Financial Stress Ask Patients for Payment of Certain Procedures in Advance of Care
Request for money upfront comes at a time when many patients already struggle with medical debt In its reporting of healthcare trends gathering momentum, a national newspaper caused quite a stir this spring when it published a story documenting how some hospitals...
Multiple Researcher Groups Find Increasing Concentrations of Microplastics in Human Tissue
Scientists suspect that the plastics can be linked to a host of medical conditions, but clear evidence is elusive without appropriate biomarkers for clinical laboratory testing Recent research indicates that microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) are accumulating in...
Cyberattack Renders Healthcare Providers across Ascension’s Hospital Network Unable to Access Medical Records Endangering Patients
Inability to access clinical laboratory test results forced hospitals to suspend critical procedures and surgeries causing major disruptions to healthcare Cyberattacks continue to shut down the ability of hospitals to process orders for clinical laboratory tests,...
Protesters Outside UnitedHealthcare Headquarters Allege Company Systemically Denies Care
Are ongoing protests and federal investigations into health plan practices evidence that customers have reached a tipping point? It is not common for beneficiaries to get arrested in front of their health plan’s headquarters. But that is what happened in July, when...
In Massive Crackdown, US Department of Justice Charges 193 Defendants with $2.75 Billion in Healthcare Fraud
Charges include $1.1 billion in alleged telemedicine and fraudulent clinical laboratory testing Nearly 200 individuals in 25 states are facing charges for alleged participation in a variety of healthcare frauds, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in a press...
UC San Francisco Scientists Discover Antibodies That Appear in Multiple Sclerosis Patients Years before Symptoms Occur
Findings may lead to new clinical laboratory biomarkers for predicting risk of developing MS and other autoimmune diseases Scientists continue to find new clinical laboratory biomarkers to detect—and even predict risk of developing—specific chronic diseases. Now, in a...
New Trend in Hospital Administration: On-Demand Management Assignments
Pathology groups and clinical laboratories experiencing shortages in management positions may want to consider on-demand healthcare leaders Are “on-demand” leaders the answer to clinical laboratory and pathology group staff shortages? Perhaps. A new twist on...
UK Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence to Identify DNA Methylation Signatures Associated with Cancer
Study findings could lead to new clinical laboratory diagnostics that give pathologists a more detailed understanding about certain types of cancer New studies proving artificial intelligence (AI) can be used effectively in clinical laboratory diagnostics and...
University College London Researchers Develop Carbon Beads That Slow the Progress of Liver Disease and Improve Gut Microbiome
As this therapeutic approach gains regulatory approval, clinical laboratory tests to determine condition of patient’s gut microbiota and monitor therapy will be needed Some developments in the clinical laboratory industry are less about diagnostic tests and more about...
In Vitro Diagnostics Companies Race to Develop Blood-based Tests for Alzheimer’s Disease, Data Suggest a Worldwide Growing Market
As new diagnostic assays are cleared by regulators, clinical laboratories will play a key role in identifying appropriate patients for new less-invasive Alzheimer’s tests With multiple companies racing to develop a blood-based test for Alzheimer’s disease (AD),...
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