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Tag Archives: Chemistry testing (see also Immunohistochemistry)

How close to patients? Cost, quality, competition

July 2022—Point-of-care versus centralized testing, and automation, IT, and staffing. It all came together as industry executives and a laboratory director and a former medical director met with CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle on May 25, as CAP TODAY’s list of chemistry and immunoassay analyzers was going together. “I don’t worry much about the machines or reagents,” thanks to good-quality practices, said André Valcour, PhD, MBA, DABCC, of Labcorp, who noted the real focus is quality of information and information transfer. Susan Fuhrman, MD, formerly of OhioHealth, said, “We should always give our clinicians as much information as we can accurately produce and our reports should be as clear as we can make them.” And of the staffing crisis: “We have a perfect storm,” she said. Here is more of what they and the others had to say.

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A panel’s take on instruments, connectivity, COVID

July 2020—Has the pandemic changed your thinking or that of your customers? That’s one of the questions CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle put to seven representatives of five companies and two other panelists in a May 13 roundtable on chemistry/immunoassay analyzers and testing. But first up were other topics: scalability, connectivity, standardizing platforms across health systems, consistent sourcing of antibodies, and open automation.

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What happened when lab set sights on parasites

March 2013—When Bobbi S. Pritt, MD, director of clinical parasitology and virology in the Division of Clinical Microbiology at Mayo Clinic, set out to improve test utilization among the physicians for whom her laboratory performs assays, she figured that knowledge was power. Simply educate the clinicians, she thought, and surely they would begin to order the most appropriate tests for their patients.

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