Large-Scale Study Details Devastating Patient Harms Associated with Blood Culture Contamination
Magnolia Medical Technologies shared a study detailing the clinical and financial impacts of blood culture contamination on patient safety.
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Laboratory Decision System Improves Test Utilization
The results confirm a significant reduction in the number of unnecessary tests ordered by clinicians.
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Veravas Launches Products to Mitigate Biotin Interference
Taking high-dose biotin supplements can interfere with laboratory assays, causing incorrect test results that lead to misdiagnosis.
Reducing Cervical Cancer
Some argue that cytology adds little to cervical screening efforts, prompting additional discussion on the contribution of cytology to screening protocols.
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MycoDart Introduces Molecular Test to Identify Candida Auris
Offered as a laboratory-developed test through a certified laboratory affiliate, the test provides ordering physicians with highly accurate results in hours.
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FDA Clears Early Sepsis Indicator from Beckman Coulter
Beckman’s Early Sepsis Indicator is a first-of-its-kind, hematology-based cellular biomarker for identifying patients with sepsis, or those at increased risk of developing sepsis.
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Genomenon to Make Genomic Variants Data Available via Google Cloud Platform
Genomenon’s cited variants reference database will be publicly available for use in genomic applications via BigQuery, Google Cloud’s big data and machine learning data warehouse.
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Quality Control Media Help to Reduce Sepsis among Patients Requiring Platelet Transfusion
BD’s quality control media for platelet testing have been CE marked and cleared by FDA.
Read MoreLab Readiness Program Speeds Cancer Patient Access to Combination Products
LabCorp joins Qiagen ‘Day-One’ lab readiness program designed to deliver precision medicine to patients faster.
Read MoreMolDx Issues LCD for Noninvasive Kidney Transplant Rejection Test
The LCD represents a major reimbursement milestone on the company’s path to commercialization in 2019.
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Getting Ahead of PAMA
The federal law comes with significant cuts to Medicare testing fees, but labs that take steps now will be better able to meet the challenge.
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January 2019 Product Spotlight: 2019 Emerging Technologies Showcase
Nano-Signature Discovery Could Revolutionize Cancer Diagnosis A quick and easy test to...
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Novel Serum Test Provides Accurate GFR Measurement
The test determines kidney glomerular filtration rate with an accuracy close to tracer-based plasma clearance measurements, but with the simplicity of a serum sample test.
Read MoreChemStat System Expands Acute Care Diagnostics Portfolio
The analyzer is designed for rapid basic metabolic testing in emergency departments and other hospital point-of-care settings.
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Making Headway with Digital Diagnostics
Emerging tools are harnessing the power of big data to improve healthcare
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PolarSafe EVA Ice Buckets and Pans for Benchtop Cryogenic Chilling
The buckets and pans are made from ethylene vinyl acetate, a thick nontoxic foam compatible with alcohol, dry ice, ice, liquid nitrogen, and saline solutions.
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Inside Track: COLA Requests Another Look
COLA has requested that GAO expand its recent report on the implementation of reimbursement rate cuts to Medicare’s clinical laboratory fee schedule.
Read MoreFDA Warns against Unauthorized Sales of Home-Use Warfarin Test Strips
The test strips are part of a Class I recall.
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