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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.
Special Report: The Benefits of Lean Six Sigma Training Specifically for Labs
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.
Portrait of a Microbiology Lab: Implementing Total Laboratory Automation in a Limited-Resource Environment
This free white paper details the factors that were critical to success of the TLA project and describes how automation helped redefine the clinical value of the hospital’s microbiology laboratory. You’ll learn about how the microbiology TLA conversion unfolded, the lab team involved to handle the project and the issues the team faced to get the job done.
The Case of the Missing Mole: When costly Lost or Missing Laboratory Test Samples Instigate Courier Management Redesign
Incidents of lost or missing laboratory test samples carry heavy consequences. Yet, many laboratories find that accountability, reconciliation, and tracking persist as issues. This white paper will be useful for laboratory directors, lab managers, courier managers, logistics managers, and outreach managers—whether in hospital-based laboratories or independent medical laboratories working as outreach labs—who employ and manage couriers in-house.
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Increased Testing Demands from Physicians is Putting New Zealand Clinical Laboratories Under Severe Stress
Following the loss of its histology accreditation, pressure on APS laboratory continues to mount Government-run healthcare systems around the world often under-invest as demand grows and new healthcare technologies enter clinical practice. One such example is taking...
AXIM Biotechnologies Develops Diagnostic Test for Parkinson’s Disease That Uses Tear Drop Specimens and Returns Results in Less than 10 Minutes at the Point of Care
New non-invasive test could replace traditional painful spinal taps and clinical laboratory fluid analysis for diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease Scientists at AXIM Biotechnologies of San Diego have added another specimen that can be collected non-invasively for rapid,...
Scientists Close in on Elusive Goal of Adapting Nanopore Technology for Protein Sequencing
Technology could enable medical laboratories to deploy inexpensive protein sequencing with a handheld device at point of care and remote locations Clinical laboratories engaged in protein testing will be interested in several recent studies that suggest scientists may...
Tufts Medicine Study Shows Rapid Whole Genome Sequencing Highly Successful at Screening Newborns for Cancer in Children’s Hospitals
Pathologists and clinical laboratories have an opportunity to help create newborn rWGS programs in their parent hospitals and health systems Diagnosing disease in infants is particularly difficult using typical clinical laboratory testing and modalities. Thus, the use...
Stanford University Scientists Discover New Lifeform Residing in Human Microbiome
Though they are a mystery, once solved, Obelisks could lead to new biomarkers for clinical laboratory testing Microbiologists and clinical laboratories know that human microbiota play many important roles in the body. Now, scientists from Stanford University have...
Change Healthcare Cyberattack Disrupts Pharmacy Order Processing for Healthcare Providers Nationwide
Initially thought to be an attack by a nation-state, actual culprit turned out to be a known ransomware group and each day brings new revelations about the cyberattack Fallout continues from cyberattack on Change Healthcare, the revenue cycle management (RCM) company...
New Zealand Clinical Laboratories to Undergo Health and Safety Checks after Workers Contract Typhoid, Others Exposed to Chemicals
This comes on top of months of strikes by NZ medical laboratory workers seeking fair pay and safe working conditions Te Whatu Ora (aka, Health New Zealand, the country’s publicly funded healthcare system) recently ordered health and safety checks at multiple clinical...
BMJ Oncology Study Shows 79% Increase in Cancer among People under 50 Years of Age
Findings suggest new medical guidelines may be needed to determine when to perform clinical laboratory cancer screenings on people under 50 From 1990-2019, new diagnoses of early-onset cancer in individuals under 50 years of age increased by 79%, according to a...
A Dark Daily Extra!
This is the third of a three-part series on revenue cycle management for molecular testing laboratories and pathology practices, produced in collaboration with XiFin Inc. Automation and AI-Powered Workflow Paves the Way for Consistent, Optimized Molecular Diagnostics...
New Federal Rules on Sepsis Treatment Could Cost Hospitals Millions of Dollars in Medicare Reimbursements
Some hospital organizations are pushing back, stating that the new regulations are ‘too rigid’ and interfere with doctors’ treatment of patients In August, the Biden administration finalized provisions for hospitals to meet specific treatment metrics for all patients...
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