Increasingly common throughout the country in the last two decades, merging hospitals and health systems have enabled growth in laboratory diagnostics volumes, which in turn have enabled many laboratories to adopt technologies that prior volumes could not easily justify. As this trend continues to grow, many clinical laboratories have had to adapt to providing services to facilities outside of their... Read more
Let us begin with a story: “Angela,” a histotechnologist, was filling a container with formaldehyde for the operating room. Upon opening the spigot of the five-gallon reagent cube, the cap snapped off, and formaldehyde poured down the front of her lab coat and pants. She was soaked with the chemical, and she knew she needed to rinse it off quickly before it began to irritate... Read more
Given the recent inflationary pressures that have permeated all market segments in the United States, the focus of all laboratory directors is squarely on cost savings and maximizing product and instrument life. Drawing this issue into stark relief, even after removing cost-volatile items such as gasoline and food, core inflation rates still exceed 6% year over year.1 Comparatively, at a national... Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic has rendered profoundly broad impacts across the globe ranging from the tragic loss of numerous lives to the everyday inconvenience of snarled supply chains. Furthermore, these impacts have affected every industry and population, few more acutely than clinical laboratories. Clinical and anatomic labs began and remain on the front line in fighting the pandemic by processing... Read more
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