AI in Health Care: Balancing Benefits and Barriers
AI can help alleviate the burden on clinical labs—but only with sufficient investment, enthusiasm, and understanding
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Expert Q&A: OneLab—Pathology Meets Virtual Reality
CDC Virtual Reality Training lead Joe Rothschild discusses the new OneLab VR initiative—and the future of this project for the clinical lab
Protecting Your Pathology: Cybersecurity for Digital Workflows
Digital pathology opens up new cybersecurity risks for labs—but simple steps can mitigate those risks and increase digital resilience
Medical Necessity Requirement Bites Anatomic Pathologists
By Robert Mazer bio
The DOJ has announced two separate settlements involving claims for allegedly unnecessary special stains…
Getting a new lab space? Design it for safety now and save thousands later
By Dan Scungio, MT (ASCP), SLS, CQA (ASQ) bio
Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a laboratory manager who worked in a hospital that was designing a new stand-alone emergency department building which would include a…
5 ways to end generational stereotyping in your lab
By Dr. William A. Schiemann bio
These days, the Millennial Generation is hyped, perhaps even more than Baby Boomers were hyped in the 1950s and 1960s. As I meet with executives around the globe, there is widespread confusion and…
Biomarkers Personalize PSA Screening
From - Diagnostic Testing & Emerging Technologies
Early diagnosis of prostate cancer (PCa) is marred by a lack of consensus on the best screening strategy. Prostate specific antigen (PSA) had been…
New Biomarkers May Enable Personalized Prostate Cancer Screening
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NGS Clinically Useful for Pediatric Cancers
From - Diagnostic Testing & Emerging Technologies
The Precision in Pediatric Sequencing (PIPseq) Program at Columbia University Medical Center released data on its first…
Sequencing Pediatric Cancer Provides Clinically Useful Information
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Special Focus: The Rise of Liquid Biopsy Testing
From - Diagnostic Testing & Emerging Technologies
Early in the year DTET spoke to experts that predicted 2015 would be the year that liquid biopsy technology penetrates the clinical oncology market. These predictions did not disappoint. A near continuous stream of publications, conference presentations, and…
Computational Pipeline Can Analyze 1,000 Genomes a Day
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Special Focus: Liquid Biopsies
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