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 ...

DANVILLE, PA. – Geisinger Medical Center's microbiology lab is the first in the U.S. to use a new automatic instrument that improves the quality and efficiency of specimen planting and streaking and ...

MATTOON — The Sarah Bush Lincoln Laboratory is one of the most technologically advanced areas of the Health Center and it just became more advanced, delivering high ...

Diagnostics, particularly blood cultures, play a key role in sepsis diagnosis. Best practices are well-known for collection, transport, and processing of blood cultures, but historically relatively ...

98% of in-patients will undergo a diagnostic test during a hospital stay. 1 With the increased focus on the accuracy of diagnostic test results needed to make informed decisions to treat outbreaks, ...

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 ...

A doctor spends a full day shadowing a pathology assistant, offering a rare inside look at lab procedures, specimen ...

Blood samples are accepted from 7 am Monday through 11 am Friday. For pediatric patients, draw requirements are as follows. They are the minimum sample volumes required. These are guidelines for ...