Managing Reagent Variation
Lot-to-lot reagent inconsistencies can have significant effects on patient test results.
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COLA Receives ISO Recertification
With recertification performed by the British Standards Institute, COLA continues as the only CMS-deemed accreditor with an ISO quality systems designation.
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Wide Arrary of Hot Topics for Laboratorians on Agenda at COLA Resources Symposium
Conference to help labs transition to new CMS guidelines.
COLA Calls for More Education for Waived Testing Sites
Waived tests increase from nine to more than 5,400 test systems and 119 analytes since 1993.
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Free LOINC Training Workshops for Hospital Lab Managers and Directors
The workshops will be provided by the Laboratory Interoperability Cooperative, comprised of Surescripts, the AHA, and CAP.
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Submit Your Proficiency Testing Results Using a Smartphone with Bio-Rad’s New EQAS Mobile
This online portal to QC information provides labs with an easy and rapid way to access their quality control data and other QC-related information.
Read MoreHow many proficiency testing events are required for a given calendar year?
Take a second to vote in CLP’s poll about proficiency testing.
Read MoreLSI Offers New Lab Safety Training Courses
The Laboratory Safety Institute released its Summer 2012 schedule of lab safety training courses for industrial organizations, biopharmaceutical, forensic, environmental, hospital labs, and universities.
Read MoreAttend Webinar on Proficiency Testing
The American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) will host an upcoming Webinar titled, “Making Proficiency Testing Work for You 2011.”
Read MorePathologists Call for New Training Program to Support Personalized Medicine
The department of pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have issued A Call to Action for the medical profession to catch up with the technology and business communities in the application of genomics to personalized health care.
Read MoreHHS, Dept of Labor Announce $1B for Job Training and Health IT Adoption
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis announce a total of nearly $1 billion in Recovery Act awards to help health care providers adopt health information technology and train workers for the health care jobs of the future.
Read MoreRoche Diagnostics Opens New California Training Center
Roche Diagnostics announced the opening of a new west-coast customer training center in Pleasanton, Calif, as part of an initiative to make state-of-the-art training on diagnostic equipment more accessible to hospitals and independent laboratories on the west and east coasts.
Read MoreHHS Makes Recovery Act Funding Available to Expand Health Professions Training
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the availability of $200 million to support grants, loans, loan repayment, and scholarships to expand the training of health care professionals. The funds are expected to train approximately 8,000 students and credentialed health professionals by the end of fiscal year 2010.
Read MoreSCC Soft Computer Among Top 5 companies in Workforce Training and Development
Training magazine has announced that SCC Soft Computer was selected for a coveted place among many of the worlds top companies for employee-sponsored workforce training and development.
Read MoreDiaSorin to Provide Hepatitis Training for Lab and Health Care Workers
Starting in January 2007, DiaSorin Inc, Stillwater, Minn, and the National Laboratory Training Network (NLTN) are going to provide audio and Web-based interactive hepatitis training to health care workers performing public health, clinical, and environmental laboratory testing.
Read MoreSCC Soft Computer Gets Grant From State for Employee Training
SCC Soft Computer, Clearwater, Fla, has been awarded funds from the Incumbent Worker Training grant by the state to augment its 2007 training program.
Read MoreHow to Recruit and Retain Lab Staff
“We don’t have an overabundance of qualified technicians and technologists,” says Jamie Boone, BS, MT (ASCP), assistant director of lab services, Medical Center Laboratory, a service of Jackson-Madison County General Ho
Read MoreLaboratory-Staffing Solutions
Attracting and retaining staff has become a major challenge for clinical labs. Where will tomorrow’s dedicated laboratory professionals be found? According to Department of Labor projections, US labs need 138,000 new clinical laboratory p
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