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Is it time to upgrade your clinical laboratory equipment?

April 18, 2023

Dealing with technology changes in the clinical lab is rarely fun. Bringing in new instrumentation involves managing space and staff requirements, plus validating and calibrating the equipment and workflows. All this takes resources and staff time away from their most important task: generating clinically actionable results for patients. But clinical laboratory teams that cling to […]

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Communication skills for lab professionals: tips and tricks from Mark Laudi

April 12, 2021

As healthcare delivery becomes more interdisciplinary and complex every year, laboratory staff are increasingly being called upon to present at meetings with clinicians, hospital managers and other healthcare systems stakeholders. Moreover, as the COVID-19 pandemic has thrust lab diagnostics into the public eye, many lab leaders are getting invited more frequently for media interviews, conference

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China viewpoint: employee satisfaction and team building in the clinical lab

August 18, 2020

To understand how clinical lab directors can keep their employees continuously engaged and optimally productive, Roche Diagnostics recently spoke with Prof Wei CHEN, Director of the Laboratory Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University in China. In this video, Prof Chen discusses the importance of a “bottom-up” management style that gives employees

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Five ways to thrive as a laboratory professional in a fast-changing healthcare landscape

June 18, 2019

As the Laboratory Director of EONE Laboratories, a large reference laboratory in South Korea, Dr Gwi-young Oh has witnessed a great deal of change in laboratory medicine over the years. In this article, she shares her perspective on how aspiring laboratory professionals can position themselves for success in a fast-evolving, and fast-growing, field. 1. Be energetic.

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