Oct 12, 2009 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology
More medical tourists may also contribute to further globalization of lab testing Medical tourism continues to be a force with the potential to exert significant influence on healthcare in the United States. For that reason, experts have weighed in recently on how efforts to reform healthcare may either inhibit or encourage growth in the number of Americans opting to become medical tourists. Just as medical tourism has the potential to be transformative to certain aspects of healthcare here in...
Aug 12, 2009 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology
Effort will identify which clinical procedures actually benefit patients—and are cost-effective “Comparative effectiveness research (CER)” is likely to be one method that healthcare reformers use to establish reimbursement for different medical technologies and treatments. This will apply equally to clinical laboratory testing and pathology professional services as well as other medical procedures. There is a compelling reason why comparative effectiveness is likely to happen on this turn of...
Jan 30, 2009 | Laboratory Pathology, Management & Operations
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – Here in the United Kingdom, regional laboratory networks are finally catching on. The number of “pathology networks,” as they are called here, has increased in recent years. As was true of Canada in the late 1980s and the United States and Australia during the 1990s, clinical lab leaders in the United Kingdom are finding regional laboratory networks to be effective business models to achieve tight integration of lab services, realize significant cost...
Jan 26, 2009 | Laboratory Pathology, Management & Operations
Wall Street has yet to grasp this essential truth of laboratory medicine-lab test quality comes with its own price tag At this moment in time, Quest Diagnostics Incorporated’s (NYSE:DGX) advertised value proposition to other labs—”industry-leading quality and technical proficiency”—has diminished credibility with pathologists and lab industry executives. They are questioning how the nation’s largest lab company could allow systemic errors that caused it to report...
Nov 3, 2008 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology
Major changes may soon be unfolding at the College of American Pathologists (CAP), based in Northfield, Illinois. On October 30, CAP announced that Charles Roussel would be its new Executive Vice President. In this role, Roussel is responsible for daily operations at CAP and he reports directly to CAP’s Board of Governors. But that’s just the starting point for this story. Roussel is an organizational change agent. He has actively consulted with corporations in such industries as...
