Up to 70 percent of errors associated with lab results happen way before the tests are even analyzed, according to a report from ECRI Institute’s Patient Safety Organization. Getting a delayed ...
NORFOLK, Va. — A new pneumatic tube system at Sentara Leigh Hospital in Norfolk is reshaping how medical specimens and ...
The following items will be discussed in this panel presentation: How samples are collected and processed to be tested in reference laboratories The Best practices in collecting respiratory (swab) ...
The United States Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) recently issued a “Special Fraud Alert” focusing on two potentially illegal trends that it has detected in arrangements between laboratories and ...
WATERFORD, MI -- It begins when a medical professional sticks an unfortunately long Q-tip-like swab into your nose or mouth. It ends when a machine using sophisticated software analyzes the extracted ...
On April 28, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published Advisory Opinion 22-09, declining to approve a laboratory company’s proposal to pay ...
The New Hampshire Public Health Laboratories is ramping up testing for the COVID-19 strain of coronavirus.>> Download the FREE WMUR appTwo cases of the potentially deadly strain of virus have been ...