Dec 10, 2008 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology
Today Dark Daily wants to introduce you to the emerging medical discipline of “multi-modality diagnosis.” Advances in genetics and molecular technologies are actively breaking down the traditional scope of practice for several medical specialists. At ground zero in this new area of medicine are pathology and radiology. Multi-modality diagnosis can be defined in a simple manner. It is the use of several different types of clinical data-in an integrated fashion-to make a diagnosis....
Dec 4, 2008 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology
California is often a national leader for innovations in managed care contracting, as well as new approaches for delivering healthcare. So when your Dark Daily editor visited the laboratory at the UCLA Medical Center this week, he was quite curious about the ways in which clinical laboratory testing and anatomic pathology services are being used at this respected national academic center. For one thing, UCLA has recently moved into a brand new hospital building. The Ronald Reagan Medical...
Sep 15, 2008 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology
Having jumped feet first into the in-store rapid clinic/minute clinic concept, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) is introducing telemedicine services in selected Wal-Mart stores. This may put the company just steps away from an interest in providing appropriate diagnostic tests to customers coming into its in-store medical clinics. This summer, Wal-Mart announced a joint operating agreement with two companies for the purpose of running telemedicine clinics in selected stores. This pilot project...
Jun 27, 2008 | Laboratory Management and Operations, Laboratory Pathology
Patient-centric e-health services, including personal and electronic health records, remote monitoring of patients, electronic physician-patient communication, and patients seeking health information on-line, represent a new vision of healthcare’s future according to a recent position paper from the American College of Physicians (ACP), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ACP’s new position paper demonstrates how the physician community is recognizing the role integrated healthcare...
