Dec 9, 2008 | Laboratory Management and Operations, Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology, Management & Operations
It’s no surprise that topping The Dark Report’s list of Top Ten Most Important Stories of 2008 for the laboratory industry is the successful repeal of the Medicare Part B Laboratory Services Competitive Bidding Demonstration Project. Across the nation, labs feared the consequences were federal health officials to have implemented the flawed scheme that was scheduled to commence in the San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos SMA (statistical metropolitan area) by July 1, 2008. Our list of the...
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...
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...
