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Combating Antimicrobial Resistance: Aligning Policy, Advocacy, and Scientific Innovation
This white paper serves as a practical guide to enhance the understanding of Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which is a growing global health crisis that threatens human, animal, and environmental health. AMR results in higher rates of illness and death, as infections become increasingly difficult to manage, and it is projected to surpass cancer as the leading cause of death by 2050, underscoring the critical importance of addressing this issue across local, state, and global levels.
Guide to AI-Enabled Revenue Cycle Management for Molecular Diagnostics and Pathology Practices
In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, molecular diagnostics and pathology laboratories face increasing challenges in maximizing revenue. Accurately estimating out-of-pocket costs and collecting payments efficiently can be challenging, often leading to delays and patient dissatisfaction. Additionally, ensuring timely and accurate claim submissions is crucial for maximizing revenue, but manual processes can be time-consuming and error-prone.
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
When it comes to point-of-care (POC) testing for infectious diseases, a meticulously crafted quality system is not just an option—it’s a necessity. Ensuring safety and satisfaction hinges on having the right practices in place. 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 POC teams outside the clinical laboratory, this resource delves into the tangible aspects of good laboratory practice and regulatory compliance, offering practical knowledge applicable to both routine and urgent patient care settings.
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.
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UK Researchers Use Proteomics to Identify Proteins That Indicate Presence of Cancer Years before Diagnosis
Study findings could lead to new clinical laboratory screening tests that determine risk for cancer New disease biomarkers generally lead to new clinical laboratory tests. Such may be the case in an investigational study conducted at the University of Oxford in the...
UCLA Spinoff Develops AI Tool That Improves Accuracy of Prostate Cancer Assessments
Software analyzes imaging scans and clinical laboratory data to help oncologists and anatomic pathologists visualize a tumor’s extent Anatomic pathologists understand that, along with breast cancer, diagnostic testing for prostate cancer accounts for a high volume of...
American Associated Pharmacies Struck by Ransomware Attack
Clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups should consider these cyberattacks on major healthcare entities as reminders that they should tighten their cybersecurity protections Hackers continue to gain access to public health records—including clinical...
South Korean Researchers Develop Clinical Laboratory Test That Diagnoses Sepsis Faster than Traditional Tests
Diagnostic test incorporates artificial intelligence and could shorten the time clinical laboratories need to determine patients’ risk for antimicrobial resistance Sepsis continues to be a major killer in hospitals worldwide. Defeating it requires early diagnosis,...
Mayo Clinic Researchers Uses Exome Sequencing to Identify Individuals at Risk of Hereditary Cancer
Half of the people tested were unaware of their genetic risk for contracting the disease Existing clinical laboratory genetic screening guidelines may be inadequate when it comes to finding people at risk of hereditary breast-ovarian cancer syndromes and Lynch...
World Economic Forum Publishes Updated List of 12 Breakthroughs in Fight against Cancer That Includes Innovative Clinical Laboratory Test (Part 2)
These advances in the battle against cancer could lead to new clinical laboratory screening tests and other diagnostics for early detection of the disease As Dark Daily reported in part one of this story, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has identified 12 new...
World Economic Forum Publishes Updated List of 12 Breakthroughs in Fight against Cancer That Includes Innovative Clinical Laboratory Test (Part 1)
List also includes precision oncology, liquid biopsies, and early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer Pathologists and clinical laboratory managers will be interested to learn that in a recently updated article the World Economic Forum (WEF) identified a dozen important...
University of Edinburgh Scientists Associate Increased Cancer Rates to Descendants from Multiple Scottish Islands
Findings could lead to new clinical laboratory cancer screening tests for BRCA1 and BRCA2 among specific population regions Descendants of a remote Scottish island are much more likely to carry a cancer-causing BRCA2 gene than the rest of the UK. That’s according to a...
Pathology Laboratory Cuts Lead to Worker Walkout in Australia
Underfunding of clinical laboratories has led to similar worker walkouts in multiple Australasian nations Once again, cuts in government spending on pathology services has forced healthcare workers to walk off the job in Australia. This is in line with other pathology...
Mayo Clinic Scientists Develop AI Tool That Can Determine If Gut Microbiome is Healthy
Although it is a non-specific procedure that does not identify specific health conditions, it could lead to new biomarkers that clinical laboratories could use for predictive healthcare Researchers from the Mayo Clinic recently used artificial intelligence (AI) to...
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