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 ...

Many hospitals are looking for new opportunities for revenue or ways to increase their access to capital in the current economic environment. Others are looking to reduce costs and improve ...

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 ...

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, ...

You probably don’t envision a labyrinth of medical technicians working with a battalion of robots to test and analyze human fluids, tissue samples and microscopic disease-causing agents.