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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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Amazon One Medical Call Centers Found Wanting in Washington Post Report
Patients concerns about the quality of care provided since Amazon acquired One Medical in 2022 can affect clinical laboratory testing for those providers Recently, The Washington Post reported on leaked documents that appear to indicate Amazon’s One Medical primary...
At-Home Paper Influenza Test Differentiates Strains, Gives Hope for Improved Screening and Surveillance of Viral Outbreaks
Researchers used CRISPR-based assays to develop new clinical laboratory point-of-care blood test which boasts accuracy, affordability, and accessibility Here’s a novel use of paper as clinical laboratory test media. Researchers at Princeton University in New Jersey,...
Researchers in China Develop AI-powered Tool That Can Diagnose Three Cancers Using a Drop of Dried Blood
Use of artificial intelligence in clinical laboratory testing could improve the diagnosis of cancer worldwide In a proof of concept study, scientists at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China have developed a clinical laboratory test that utilizes artificial...
Mayo Clinic Scientists Use Chemical Analysis of Beethoven’s Hair to Determine Lead Poisoning May Have Contributed to Composer’s Hearing Loss and Other Health Ailments
Results of an earlier study in which locks of Beethoven’s hair underwent genetic analysis showed the composer ‘had a predisposition for liver disease and became infected with hepatitis B’ Here is an example of modern technologies being used with “historical...
Brigham and Women’s Hospital Researchers Develop Implantable ‘Lab in a Patient’ to Test Effectiveness of Brain Cancer Drugs
Scientists reported positive Phase 1 trial results of their “intratumoral microdevice” in patients with glioma tumors Here is an example of new microtechnology which has the potential to greatly shorten the time and improve the ability of physicians to determine which...
University of Cincinnati Pathologist Develops Speedier Tissue Processing for Small Biopsies
Syringe-based technique is disposable and enables clinical laboratories to process small biopsies in about two hours instead of overnight and with significantly less waste Histotechnologists and clinical laboratory managers know that the standard method of processing...
Fred Hutch Researchers Identify Oral Bacteria That Appear to Play a Role in Certain Colon Cancers
Discovery highlights how ongoing microbiome research points to new opportunities that can lead to development of more effective cancer screening clinical laboratory tests New research from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle once again demonstrates that the...
UPMC Researchers Develop Biomarkers That Identify Biological Age While Also Predicting Disease Risk
Scientists turned to metabolomics to find cause of biological aging and release index of 25 metabolites that predict healthy and rapid agers Researchers at the University of Pittsburg Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have identified...
Woman Performs Do-it-yourself Fecal Transplant to Relieve Symptoms of IBS, Gets Donor’s Acne
Clinical laboratory scientists and microbiologists could play a role in helping doctors explain to patients the potential dangers of do-it-yourself medical treatments Be careful what you wish for when you perform do-it-yourself (DIY) medical treatments. That’s the...
Dutch Patient with Longest COVID-19 Case of 612 Days Had More than 50 SARS-CoV-2 Mutations Before He Died
Study of the 50 Omicron variants could lead to new approaches to clinical laboratory testing and medical treatments for long COVID Patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 can usually expect the COVID-19 illness to subside within a couple of weeks. However, one Dutch patient...
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Executive War College 2024 – Audio Recordings
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SPECIAL REPORT | Better CLIA Compliance: Reviewing Top Deficiencies from Accreditors and Looking to Future CLIA Reform
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DARK DAILY Webinar: What Lab Leaders Need to Know: Data Security Agreements, Surprise Billing, EKRA, AKS, CURES Act, and More
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SPECIAL REPORT: State of the Genetic Testing Marketplace
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