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 ...

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 ...

Hospital officials say that patients should consider factors other than just costs when deciding whether to go to an independent or hospital-based imaging center. For example, physicians sometimes ...

Significant price gap: Quest's self-pay rates for routine tests are often multiple times lower than hospital lab charges, according to national averages. Shared quality standards: Hospital and Quest ...

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 ...

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 ...

No matter what we look like on the outside, we are all roughly the same shade of red under the skin. That observation was prompted by a visit to the walk-in storage cooler inside the Blood Bank in UAB ...