Meaningful Use: Phase 1 Lessons Learned and How to Prepare Your Lab for Phase 2 Requirements

Sep 6, 2011

Meaningful Use: Phase 1 Lessons Learned and How to Prepare Your Lab for Phase 2 Requirements Integration strategies and steps to help increase your lab’s client base LIVE AUDIO RECORDINGS – Order Now! With Meaningful Use phase 2 criteria about to become effective, the nation’s clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups will soon be tasked by office-based physicians to help them use EMRs to qualify for federal incentive payments. This second tidal wave of EMR adoption...

McKinsey & Co. Study Says Health Reform Law May Cause 30% of Employers to Drop Healthcare Benefit Programs

Aug 10, 2011 | Laboratory Hiring & Human Resources, Laboratory Pathology

Obamacare reforms scheduled for 2014 may have negative financial impact for pathology groups and clinical laboratories It was not welcome news to many healthcare policymakers when McKinsey & Company released the findings of a survey that indicated that as many as 30% of employers were likely to cease offering health insurance coverage to employees when certain mandates of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) take effect in 2014. Criticism of the McKinsey study was swift, and newspapers and...

World’s Largest Food Company Spends $567 Million to Buy into Pathology Laboratory Testing and Pharmaceuticals

Jul 13, 2011 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology

Nestlé says its Prometheus Laboratory acquisition will help it develop products for patients with metabolic conditions and to promote brain health When it comes to the brave new world of genetics in pathology and clinical laboratory testing, such terms as pharmacogenomics, companion diagnostics, and personalized medicine have been coined to describe the intersection of genetic testing and molecular diagnostics with emerging medical practice. Now the world’s largest food company is putting...

UPMC to Use Digital Pathology Imaging to Provide Anatomic Pathology Consulting Services to China

Nov 11, 2010 | Digital Pathology, Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology

Second-opinion consults will be handled by UPMC’s sub-specialist pathologists Here’s a unique anatomic pathology collaboration that crosses international borders and will utilize state-of-the-art digital pathology technology to support subspecialty pathologist consultations between the United States and China. In recent weeks, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) disclosed that it will provide a range of healthcare services to what is only described as “the largest pathology...

Canadian Province of Ontario Makes Progress on Standardizing EORLA’s 19 Clinical Pathology Laboratories

Nov 8, 2010 | Laboratory Instruments & Laboratory Equipment, Laboratory Management and Operations, Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology

Regional laboratory network wants to standardize lab test menus, methods, and LIS In Canada’s Ontario Province, an ambitious effort to create a single, multi-site regional clinical pathology laboratory system is moving forward. Called the Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association, Inc., (EORLA), it involves the clinical laboratories of 19 hospitals. EORLA’s current clinical goals and business objectives reflect the experience of almost 25 years of laboratory cost-cutting and...