Feb 23, 2010 | Laboratory Management and Operations, Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology
Gives human resource departments useful information about salary trends for lab managers
In recent years, the clinical pathology laboratory profession has lacked a reliable national survey of compensation trends for clinical laboratory executives, administrators, directors, pathologists, and managers. That situation may soon change, as two lab organizations are actively collecting the compensation data required to produce a useful national survey of laboratory compensation and benefits.
Slone Partners of Miami Beach, Florida, national recruitment experts for the diagnostic laboratory industry, and The Dark Report are collaborating to produce what is believed to be the nation’s first-ever national survey of trends in compensation, benefits, and perks paid to senior executives, lab administrators, lab managers, pathologists, and Ph.D.s working in the United States.
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Nov 25, 2009 | Laboratory Management and Operations, Laboratory Pathology
Highly-automated hospital labs are organized to serve inpatient testing and don’t compete for “outreach” lab business from office-based physicians in the community
DATELINE: AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND—In this nation’s single payer health system, clinical laboratory testing services are allotted to hospital laboratories and commercial laboratories in very specific ways. Consequently, hospital laboratories in New Zealand tend to provide testing primarily for inpatients and for outpatients seen by specialists who practice within the hospital’s facilities.
This is an interesting distinction which sets New Zealand hospital laboratories apart from hospital labs in such countries as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Australia. In each of these countries, it is common for hospital laboratories to provide some laboratory testing to the outpatient and outreach sector, particularly to primary care clinics and office-based specialist physicians.
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Jul 20, 2009 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology
Best Investigative Reporting honors earned for story about problems with Vitamin D testing
Top honors in a prestigious national journalism competition were recently awarded to our sister publication, The Dark Report. Editor-In-Chief Robert L. Michel traveled to Washington, DC, to accept the first place award for “Best Investigative Reporting.”
The occasion was the 33rd annual conference of the Specialized Information Publishers Association (SIPA). Handing Editor Robert Michel his first place award was Nora O’Donnell, News Anchor and Political Reporter for NBC News and MSNBC. (more…)
Jun 15, 2009 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology
Public health lab training professionals expanding educational offerings for lab industry
It was inspired timing last week that brought together the nation’s public health laboratory training professionals in Orlando, Florida, just as the World Health Organization (WHO) announced its decision on Thursday to declare influenza A/H1N1 as the first influenza pandemic in 41 years.
This conference was organized by the National Laboratory Training Network (NLTN), in association with the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) and the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC). Approximately 100 public laboratory professionals from across the United States were in attendance.
The first keynote speaker was May C. Chu, Ph.D., who works in the Directors Office of the World Health Organization and is involved in laboratory testing activities that include epidemic and pandemic alert and response. Chu discussed the Global Outbreak and Response Network that WHO established on a voluntary basis in 2000. It has 120 participating institutions. She described how improved collaboration among health authorities around the world is helping to accelerate the identification of outbreaks like SARS (in 2003) and influenza A/H1N1 (in 2009).
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Sep 13, 2006 | Laboratory Pathology, News From Dark Daily
With this first Dark Daily briefing, we have launched a new resource for laboratory administrators, pathologists, practice administrators, and anyone working in the laboratory industry. Dark Daily’s goal is to provide you with useful information that helps you better manage your laboratory, as well as develop your own effectiveness.
Each quick-to-read, incisive briefing will give you valuable insights. Some days we may cover breaking news that affects you and your laboratory organization. Other times, your Dark Daily will alert you to a useful management innovation or technique that you can use to make a positive difference. Of course, each Dark Daily briefing electronically delivered to you will have that unique perspective that has made The Dark Report the premier source of business intelligence for the laboratory industry’s most successful leaders, pathologists, and managers.
On your Dark Daily team is Robert L. Michel and Sylvia Christensen. They collaborate on every word you’ll read and their objective is to provide you with the information resource you’ve long wanted—but could never find. In fact, Dark Daily exists because so many of you asked us for a regular, electronic delivery of timely news, analysis, and management advances in clinical laboratory and anatomic pathology.
You have our promise that each Dark Daily briefing will prove useful to you. You are likely to find your personal perspective on important issues is strengthened because Dark Daily provides you with context and analysis that is difficult to find in sources besides The Dark Report.
Now, to keep our promise of brevity, it is time to close. You are welcome to contact Robert (rmichel@darkdaily.com) and Sylvia (schristensen@darkdaily.com) any time. Let us know when we’ve provided you with something particularly useful. Alert us to stories or events that you want us to cover. And, if you disagree with our views, feel free to fire off an email and tell us what you think!
Yours truly,
Robert & Sylvia
