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India’s evolving lab market: country healthcare leaders discuss key trends

February 6, 2020

As healthcare systems across India mature, the local lab market is undergoing major changes. Labs are adopting new and innovative technologies at a faster pace than ever before, while policy shifts are impacting quality and access to laboratory services. In this article, five leading Indian healthcare professionals share their views on these trends and what […]

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Laboratory automation, process control and seamless informatics with LIS/EMR/NEHR integration

January 31, 2020

As healthcare systems everywhere go digital, clinical labs are launching new tools and technologies to better serve clinicians and patients. This presentation looks at how one leading lab in Singapore is integrating its data and workflows with hospital information systems and an ambitious National Electronic Health Record (NEHR) programme in Singapore.

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The road map from Clinical Lab 1.0 to 2.0

January 31, 2020

What concrete steps can labs take to support risk stratification, early intervention, preventative care and cost avoidance? This session will focus on a case study in prenatal care that highlights specific strategies for managing population health in a value-based healthcare environment.

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The future is about to leave the station, get on board

January 31, 2020

How can labs leverage their unique data and capabilities to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs and generate massive value for healthcare systems everywhere? This session lays out the ambitious vision of the Clinical Lab 2.0 movement, a community of healthcare leaders that is charting a path for the future of the clinical lab.

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Use technology to decrease turnaround time

September 24, 2019

Automation and technology will not solve every problem. However, there is a good reason for the growing movement towards more technology in the laboratory: it can be very effective in improving outcomes that matter. Even once lean management principles and processes have been adopted, labs can find opportunities for increased efficiency using information technology (IT).

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Clinical Lab 2.0 initiative sets sights on Asia

August 28, 2019

In 2016, laboratory leaders from five major healthcare systems in the United States founded the Project Santa Fe Foundation (PSFF), a non-profit organisation with a mission to chart a path for the future of the clinical laboratory. Their vision is a world in which labs deliver massive value for healthcare systems everywhere by leveraging their

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Lab innovation to deliver better patient value

June 19, 2019

Laboratory medicine is on the cusp of a new era, an era defined by the value it brings to patient care. This shift comes after an era of significant progress in the quality and efficiency of laboratory services. But unlike quality and efficiency, improving patient value is a more complex outcome to assess. When focusing

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How labs can benefit from the data revolution

June 18, 2019

Healthcare’s biggest problem today is that costs are being compounded by ageing populations. New sources of data and innovative technologies can help labs address this problem by giving them new insights and capabilities for patient care. As sensors become more sensitive, we will have an unprecedented amount of data to understand our health trajectories.

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Transforming heart failure care at Huelva University Hospital, Spain

June 18, 2019

We recently began a study at our laboratory to determine the patient value of new diagnostic markers, in particular natriuretic peptides, to the management of heart failure. We selected heart failure because it has reached epidemic levels in our population, with many requiring multiple admissions to the hospital to manage their condition. Our research process

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Embracing full automation in the lab-to-lab business

June 17, 2019

At DASA, we had long ago acquired a lab-to-lab business that was run out of a hard-to-access town in central Brazil and in 2015, this gave us the impetus to push for full automation and centralisation of this business. With full automation and centralisation, we could then also restructure our logistical operations and standardise our testing processes for all our laboratory customers.

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