Pennsylvania Legislature Advances Bill Lifting Restrictions on Advertising by Clinical Laboratories
Sponsors cited the rise of healthcare consumerism in proposing the bill, which passed unanimously in the State Senate In what appears to be a step forward in fostering more consumerism in healthcare, the Pennsylvania State Senate has unanimously passed Senate Bill 712...
All of Us Genomic Research Program Hits Milestone of 250,000 Whole Genome Sequences
Expanded genomic dataset includes a wider racial diversity which may lead to improved diagnostics and clinical laboratory tests Human genomic research has taken another important step forward. The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us research program has reached...
CDC Issues New Guidelines to Optimize Hospital Sepsis Programs and Save Lives
Clinical laboratory leaders may be aware that many hospitals still do not have capabilities to make a timely diagnosis of sepsis Despite the fact that “one in three people who dies in a hospital had sepsis during that hospitalization,” recent data from the Centers for...
Penn Medicine Study Shows Telemedicine Can Cut Employer Healthcare Costs by 25%
This is good news for clinical laboratories that already perform medical testing for telehealth providers and an opportunity for medical labs that do not, it is an opportunity to do so Telemedicine visits have become commonplace since the arrival of COVID-19. Before...
California Doles Out $300 Million in No-Interest Loans to Save its Financially Struggling Hospitals
State’s new program helps ensure local communities have access to a community hospital and its physicians and clinical laboratories Like phoenixes rising from ashes, a number of bankrupt and shuttered California hospitals have new life due in part to a state-run...
Chicago Conference Attracts a Sizeable Crowd of Enthusiastic Hospital and Health System Clinical Laboratory Outreach Leaders
Sessions at this annual medical laboratory conference demonstrated that lab outreach continues to be a productive clinical and business line at numerous hospitals and IDNs Sept. 26-Chicago: During the past 24 months, there have been multiple news stories announcing...
Understanding Gen Z’s Approach to Healthcare Helps Clinical Laboratories Learn How to Better Meet Their Needs
Healthcare providers of all types will benefit from acknowledging Gen Z’s preference for digital interactions, self-testing, and over-the-counter medications Each generation has its own unique connection to how it manages its health, and the latest studies into the...
Australian Researchers Develop Static Droplet Microfluidic Device That Can Detect Cancer Cells via a Simple Blood Test
This is another approach to the liquid biopsy that clinical laboratories and pathologists may use to detect cancer less invasively Screening for cancer usually involves invasive, often painful, costly biopsies to provide samples for diagnostic clinical laboratory...
Patients and Physicians Go Online to Pressure Insurers on Prior Authorization Denial of Claims, Something Genetic Testing Labs Regularly Encounter
In a handful of cases, health insurers reversed denials after physicians or patients posted complaints on social media Prior authorization requirements by health insurers have long been a thorn in the side of medical laboratories, as well as physicians. But now,...
Survey Indicates Zoomers and Millennials Are Ready for Pharmacies to Play a Bigger Role in Their Primary Care
Demand for low cost, convenient access to doctors and drugs is driving transformation to decentralized medical care, and retail pharmacy chains see opportunity in offering primary care services Retail pharmacies and pharmacists continue to play a growing role in...
Kaufman Hall Report Says Hospitals Saw Less Inpatients and Outpatients during Summer as Bad Debt and Charity Care Rose
As a result, health system-based clinical laboratories likely saw a decline in test orders as well a decrease in outreach revenue Bad financial news continues in the hospital industry. According to an August 2023 National Hospital Flash Report from consulting firm...
BioReference Laboratories’ Unique Journey during the COVID-19 Pandemic Described in ‘Swab,’ a New Book by former BRLI CEO Jon Cohen, MD
Certainly every clinical laboratory in the United States has a unique story about dealing with the challenges of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, but only BioReference did testing for multiple professional sports leagues and the cruise ship industry Few would challenge the...
UK Researchers Create Conductive Thread That Can Be Woven into Clothing to Monitor Key Health Biomarkers
Meet ‘PECOTEX,’ a newly-invented cotton thread with up to 10 sensors that is washable. Its developers hope it can help doctors diagnosis disease and enable patients to monitor their health conditions Wearable biosensors continue to be an exciting area of research and...
Northwestern University Study Shares News Insights into Aging Guided by Transcriptome, Gene Length Imbalance
Findings could lead to deeper understanding of why we age, and to medical laboratory tests and treatments to slow or even reverse aging Can humans control aging by keeping their genes long and balanced? Researchers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois,...
Major Breakthrough in Human Genome Sequencing, as Full Y Chromosome Sequencing Completed after a More than 20 Year Journey
Clinical laboratories and pathology groups may soon have new assays for diagnosis, treatment identification, patient monitoring It’s here at last! The human Y chromosome now has a full and complete sequence. This achievement by an international team of genetic...
Retail Pharmacies Are Working with Pharmaceutical Companies to Recruit and Enroll Patients in Decentralized Clinical Trials
This trend, which began during the COVID-19 pandemic, may bypass those clinical laboratories and pathology groups that recruit patients for clinical trials, but increase the diversity of the pool of study participants National retail pharmacy chains are seeking new...
CMS Proposes New Amendments to Federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule That May Affect Clinical Laboratories and Pathology Groups
Proposal comes as patient advocacy group reports poor compliance by hospitals with the federal price transparency regulation; AHA pushes back Recent data compiled by Patient Rights Advocate, a non-profit group dedicated to nationwide healthcare transparency, appears...
Calgary’s Long Clinical Laboratory Waits at Patient Service Centers Prompt Alberta Health Services to Add Extra Appointments, Temporary Locations
As patients and staff suffer with lengthening wait times, critics claim proposed solutions won’t remedy the ailing system of collecting medical laboratory specimens With a backlog of lab appointments and a plethora of long wait times for phlebotomy services in the...
NHS Trial Analysis Finds That Grail’s Galleri Clinical Laboratory Blood Test Can Detect 50 Cancers and Identify the Location of the Cancer
Though a ‘work in progress,’ the Oxford researchers who conducted the trail believe the MCED blood test could help doctors give better cancer assessments Cancer is typically diagnosed through tissue biopsies that are often invasive and painful for patients. Now,...
Scientists and Medical Professionals Face Huge Fees, Court Costs after Speaking at Certain COVID-19 Webinars
Little-known Polish company relied on suspect arbitration court to demand thousands of euros from conference speakers Clinical laboratory and pathology professionals may want to heed the phrase “caveat emptor” ("let the buyer beware") if invited to speak at events...
Researchers Find AI Improves Breast Cancer Detection by 20%
Initial analyses also shows AI screening lowers associated radiologist image reading workload by half Both radiologists and pathologists analyze images to make cancer diagnoses, although one works with radiological images and the other works with tissue biopsies as...
Amazon Expands Its Virtual Primary Care Service, including Clinical Laboratory Testing, to All 50 States along with More Locations for One Medical Clinics
Consumer demand for telehealth services and convenient healthcare locations fuels Amazon’s quest to ‘reinvent’ healthcare Amazon’s stated goal of disrupting traditional healthcare processes and workflow continues. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon built several...
Study Finds Smartphones Can Be as Accurate as Pulse Oximeters at Reading Blood-Oxygen Saturation
Technology could enable patients to monitor their own oxygen levels and transmit that data to healthcare providers, including clinical laboratories Clinical laboratories may soon have a new data point to add to their laboratory information system (LIS) for doctors to...
California’s Statute Restricting Use of Moniker ‘Doctor’ to Only Physicians and Surgeons Challenged by Nurse Practitioners in Court Case
Plaintiffs claim state is criminalizing speaking the truth about their earned advanced degrees Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) is the highest degree that can be acquired by a nurse practitioner (NP). But can NPs who achieve this degrees call themselves doctors?...
UCSF Researchers Discover Mutated Gene That Fights SARS-CoV-2 Even in Individuals with No Exposure to the Coronavirus
Findings may help clinical laboratories identify healthcare workers who could work on the front lines of the next pandemic without fear of serious infection University of California San Francisco researchers have discovered a gene mutation that enables some people’s...
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