The importance of properly managing inventory so that supplies for all phases of testing in your laboratory are available, accessible and in-date is critical, not only for providing quality patient care, but for the fiscal solvency of the laboratory, and operational efficiency, customer service and staff morale. The goals of any inventory control system should…
DetailsLast September, the FBI issued a warning that devices and objects that connect to the internet to send and receive data are vulnerable to cyber attack. While this warning referenced many popular lifestyle devices such as smart phones and wearable fitness monitors, it also included devices common to laboratories and other businesses, such as printers,…
DetailsToday we continue with our discussion of commonly misused terms in healthcare information technology (IT). The recent and rapid development of this technology, as well as their evolving applications of these same terms, opens up the possibility of misinterpreted use. It’s important to ensure that we are all on “the same page” when using these…
DetailsI recently read an interesting article in Health IT and CIO Review* that discussed commonly misused IT terms in the healthcare profession. The fact that these terms are misused so frequently is not due solely to misunderstanding or unfamiliarity; it reflects how new the field of healthcare IT is; and how the meaning and interpretation…
DetailsWe all understand how important good management is to the overall success of a laboratory in providing quality patient care, but the defining components of quality care are not static. Whether we are discussing test accuracy, turnaround time, specimen acquisition, or result reporting; the technologies, the regulations, the compensation, and the treatment protocols, are constantly…
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