AACC Innovators Push the Envelope in Chicago More than 20,000 medical professionals and other healthcare leaders gathered from July 29–August 2 in Chicago at the 70th ADLM Annual Scientific Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo, showcasing advancements in clinical laboratory technology, services, and research that are improving patient care. Learn More
Creative Disruption The core idea behind GNA Biosolutions’ technology is to speed up PCR, which underlies most molecular testing, by employing exquisitely small and efficient gold nanoparticles for heating up and cooling off the reaction. Learn More
The Path to Better Growth Hormone Measurement Insulin-like growth factor-1 and IGF-binding protein-3 are crucial metrics that physicians use to assess patients’ growth status, but biological and both intra- and inter-assay variations make it challenging to interpret results for both. As standardization efforts for these analytes continue clinical labs can take several steps to ensure the accuracy… Learn More
How the CDC Clinical Standardization Programs Are Improving Hormone Tests This is the first time CDC has received dedicated funding from Congress to improve the quality and reliability of diagnostic tests for hormones. With these funds, CDC plans to increase in size and scope through the addition of new programs, such as the Accuracy-based Monitoring Program for routine laboratories, and… Learn More
Six Keys to Successfully Evaluating Method Performance Planning a detailed and comprehensive method evaluation study and accurately assessing the data is key to ensuring a new method is performing to standard. By following six steps labs will ensure they have robust plans for implementing and accurate data to evaluate new methods. Learn More
ACOs Find Success With Greater Incentives, Flexibility A new breed of accountable care organizations that allows groups of healthcare providers to share in both gains and losses from coordinating care showed promising results in its first year, saving Medicare $62 million in 2016. Learn More
Tufts and Partners to Evaluate Targeted Genomic Sequencing Panel for Newborns Tufts Medical Center researchers and several collaborators have received a 5-year grant award for more than $8 million from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health to study integrating targeted genomic sequencing into neonatal diagnosis and care. Learn More
The Search for a High Sensitivity Creatinine Assay Symmetric dimethylarginine is an emerging endogenous biomarker of kidney function that is already widely used in veterinary medicine. Learn More
Common Questions About Quality and Safety James Hernandez, MD, explains how quality is as much about heart, and persistence, as it is about data and statistics Learn More
FDA Clears Inova’s Test to Help Diagnose Myopathy Inova Diagnostics has received Food and Drug Administration clearance for Quanta Flash HMGCR, a test that aids in the diagnosis of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy. Learn More
Clinical Chemistry Score Bests Cardiac Troponin Results Alone in Stratifying Risk in Acute Coronary Syndrome A clinical chemistry score that includes three diagnostic test values better stratified risk in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome than did a single cardiac troponin test result. Learn More