Laboratory/Patient Safety/Quality Archives - Insights

Dr. Morice shares with Lab Manager how clinical labs can advance health equity

jgilligan1 — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Clinical labs are key to advancing health equity, reducing barriers, and improving access through innovation, collaboration, and community engagement. Dr. Morice shares his thoughts in the Lab Manager article, “Health Equity Starts in the Lab: Here’s How.”

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Autopsy Lab – Lean Transformation

MCL Education — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Register now – Jan. 14, 2025
This webinar will provide an in-depth look at the efforts to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Autopsy Lab through Lean principles. The presentation will outline the steps taken to set the foundation for Lean transformation. During the webinar, we will also review results of the transformation, which include increased productivity, reduced overtime usage, and improved employee satisfaction

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What’s New in Quality and Regulatory? [2024]

MCL Education — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000

PACE/State of FL - Presentation Recording Coming Soon This webinar provides an overview of recent operational updates to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) and administrative process changes in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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The Quality Auditor Role — Assessing the Laboratory

MCL Education — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 16:00:00 +0000

PACE/State of FL
Internal assessments are integral to a laboratory’s quality management system (QMS). They allow laboratories to evaluate compliance with regulatory and accreditation requirements, and laboratory operational practices. Internal assessments provide opportunities to enhance quality and continually improve the laboratory.

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FDA Regulation of Laboratory Developed Tests

MCL Education — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

PACE/FL -
This webinar will provide a brief history of the FDA’s interest in LDTs and review the new requirements in detail, serving as an introduction to medical device regulations in the context of a clinical laboratory.

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Problem-Solving Thinking: An Overview of DMAIC, A3, and PDSA

MCL Education — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0000

PACE/State of FL - This presentation will give learners an understanding of what problem-solving thinking is, as well as an overview of what DMAIC, A3, and PDSA problem-solving approaches are to support your quality and continuous improvement journey.

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Manage to Reimbursement

MCL Education — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 17:00:00 +0000

PACE/State of FL
This webinar will provide a methodology for laboratory leadership to review their test menu for assays that most impact the financial health of their laboratory.

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Blood Cultures

MCL Education — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:00:00 +0000

PACE / State of FL

This "Phlebotomy Webinar" will review proper blood culture collection techniques and demonstrate how specimen quality can impact patient care.

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Laboratory Nonconformance (Event) Management

MCL Education — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000

PACE / State of FL
This “Continual Improvement” webinar provides an overview of the event management process deployed by the Mayo Clinic Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology.

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What’s New in Quality and Regulatory? [2023]

MCL Education — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:00:00 +0000

PACE / State of FL
This “Continual Improvement” webinar will provide an overview of the most common CLIA deficiencies in 2022 and ideas for avoiding noncompliance. The presenters will also review new CMS rules for remote review that were published at the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency and provide an update on efforts to reform the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) provisions that are used to calculate laboratory reimbursement.

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