In today’s quickly evolving healthcare landscape, it’s important for hospital executives to realize that investing in laboratory diagnostics innovation can reap dividends. Three hundred U.S. emergency ...

As the name suggests, biotechnology is a combination of biology and technology. Biotechnology uses cellular and biomolecular processes to develop technologies and products used in medicine and other ...

Safely flying a plane requires not only a skilled pilot but a cockpit equipped with instrumentation that provides the pilot with accurate and actionable information. In a similar manner, physicians ...

Hospital labs perform a critical function that guides clinical decision-making and impacts patient outcomes — and there is growing pressure for health system leaders to expand labs’ orbit of influence ...

The laboratory sits at a unique position in a patient’s diagnostic journey. The information that’s generated from a laboratory test is the critical link between a patient with a medical question and a ...

This story was originally published on Oct 1, 2015, as part of the "Hidden Errors" project. The Cleveland Clinic has demoted a laboratory director, closed part of a testing lab and is facing hundreds ...

Reesha Ahmed was on cloud nine. It was January and Ahmed was at an OB-GYN’s office near her home in Venus, Texas, for her first prenatal checkup. After an ultrasound, getting anti-nausea medication, ...

The white-coated phlebotomist stops by your bedside to draw blood. Making sure the labels on the collection vials match your hospital ID band, she applies a tourniquet above the antecubital space ...

Until now, a team of late-shift clinical technologists in the University of Alabama at Birmingham analyzed between 4,000 and 5,000 tubes of blood every night, providing information to help guide ...