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The Value Stream of an Outreach Program - Insights
When considering the outreach laboratory value stream, it is important to remember that without quality, there is no value. Through identifying sources for error or non-value-added activities, the hospital laboratory outreach program can...
Practical Approaches to Outreach Marketing - Insights
Marketing is an essential discipline of any successful laboratory outreach program. While specific marketing goals and audiences will differ for every program, most of them will certainly involve driving awareness and growth. A strong...
Is the term "outreach" obsolete? - Insights
In a competitive outpatient testing market, choosing a laboratory is discretionary. With the goal of becoming the laboratory of choice for discretionary outpatient testing, it no longer matters if it is called “inreach” or “outreach.” While...
Preparing a customer performance update report - Insights
Depending on the types of specimens that are referred to the outreach laboratory, there may be an opportunity to share a customer performance update report with the client so that they can align with, or even develop their own laboratory...
Managing patient expectations for home specimen collection - Insights
When patients are tasked with collecting specimens at home, the procedure can require special timing, collection steps, or storage conditions. If these aren’t clearly communicated to the patient beforehand, it can lead to confusion and...
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Elevating accuracy of Alzheimer's testing - Insights
Learn how Mayo Clinic Laboratories Alzheimer’s disease testing provides clearer answers for more patients by offering the highest level of overall accuracy for the detection of amyloid pathology.
Pathways Case Studies: June 2022 - Insights
This "Pathways" program provides Anatomic and Clinical Pathology cases that include a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. Cases for June include the following sub-specialties: Dermatopathology, Gastroenterology...
Update on 2021 WHO classification of lung tumors - Insights
In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Anja Roden, M.D., discusses new entities and changes of terminology in the 2021 World Health Organization (WHO) classification of lung tumors as well as the nomenclature in small biopsies.