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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.
Latest E-Briefings
Artificial Intelligence in the Operating Room: Dutch Scientists Develop AI Application That Informs Surgical Decision Making during Cancer Surgery
Speedy DNA sequencing and on-the-spot digital imaging may change the future of anatomic pathology procedures during surgery Researchers at the Center for Molecular Medicine (CMM) at UMC Utrecht, a leading international university medical center in the Netherlands,...
Preparing for Z-Codes as DEX Genetic Testing Registry Rolls Out to Commercial Health Plans
Palmetto GBA’s Chief Medical Officer will cover how clinical laboratories billing for genetic testing should prepare for Z-Codes at the upcoming Executive War College in New Orleans After multiple delays, UnitedHealthcare (UHC) commercial plans will soon require...
Mount Sinai Researchers Create a “Smart Tweezer” That Can Isolate a Single Bacterium from a Microbiome Sample Prior to Genetic Sequencing
New technology could enable genetic scientists to identify antibiotic resistant genes and help physicians choose better treatments for genetic diseases Genomic scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City have developed...
Former FDA Director to Speak at Executive War College on FDA’s Coming Regulation of Laboratory Developed Tests
Tim Stenzel, MD, PhD, will discuss what clinical laboratories need to know about the draft LDT rule, FDA memo on assay reclassification, and ISO-13485 harmonization Many clinical laboratories anxiously await a final rule from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
Swiss Research Study into Long COVID Promises New Diagnostic and Therapeutic Possibilities
New biomarker may lead to new clinical laboratory testing and treatments for long COVID Researchers studying long COVID at the University Hospital of Zurich (UZH) and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), both in Switzerland, have discovered a protein biomarker...
Scientists at UT Health San Antonio Discover New Biomarker for Diabetic Kidney Disease
Biomarker may lead to clinical laboratory testing that enables clinical pathologists and urologists to diagnose risk for diabetic kidney failure years before it occurs Clinical laboratories working with nephrologists and urologists to diagnose patients experiencing...
Rice University Researchers Develop ‘Molecular Jackhammer’ That Kills Cancer Cells
Research could lead to similar treatments for other diseases, as well as creating a demand for a new line of oncology tests for clinical labs and pathology groups Cancer treatment has come a long way in the past decades, and it seems poised to take another leap...
Private Equity Firm General Catalyst to Buy Integrated Delivery Network Summa Health as Testing Ground for New Venture
Switching from non-profit to for-profit may affect how clinical laboratories operate in the new healthcare system Shifting away from fee-for-service payment models and towards value-based healthcare is the goal of many non-profit hospital systems. One such...
San Diego University Researchers Believe Bacteriophages May Be the Future of Eradicating Multi-Drug Resistant Superbugs
Clinical laboratories and microbiologists may soon have new powerful tools for fighting antimicrobial resistant bacteria that saves lives Superbugs—microbes that have developed multidrug resistance—continue to cause problems for clinical laboratories and hospital...
Perfect Storm of Clinical Lab and Pathology Practice Regulatory Changes to Be Featured in Discussions at 29th Annual Executive War College
Forces in play will directly impact the operations and financial stability of many of the nation’s clinical laboratories With significant regulatory changes expected in the next 18 to 24 months, experts are predicting a “Perfect Storm” for managers of clinical...
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