"Troubleshooting is a systematic approach designed to correct problems that may occur with patient samples, instruments, operating an analyzer, handling, reagents and quality control material. The first step in troubleshooting is gathering information about an incident. This could be, for example, undesired behavior of an instrument or the lack of an intended function. Other important information includes concurrent symptoms and specific circumstances that may be needed to reproduce the problem. ... Read More
Sign Up"The delivery of healthcare is shifting from a cost-based to a value-based care paradigm. This new approach emphasizes evidence, efficiency, and accuracy in clinical decision-making that reduces costs while improving patient outcomes. The clinical laboratory is an integral part of this new system. Laboratory professionals must challenge the perceptions of the clinical laboratory as solely a provider of test results to that of a provider of integrated and actionable clinical insights that can imp ... Read More
Sign Up"Lateral flow assays provide a simple and reliable assay for detecting specific biomarkers above their tested detection threshold. However, clinical professionals have a persisting need for increased sensitivity as they aim to identify these biomarkers at earlier and earlier stages of disease progression. When selecting materials for immunoassay development, membrane properties and reagent properties must be considered together, as their interactions determine the outcome of test development. ... Read More
Sign Up"Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) represent a unique healthcare burden in the United States with over 20 million new cases every year and an urgent need to control the spread. A multiplex PCR approach to STI testing has emerged as an economical and broader approach to routine STI and urgent STI testing. However, a practical challenge of implementing an STI multiplex panel is validation. Join DarkDaily Wednesday, September 27, 2023, at 1 p.m. Eastern for "Validating a Multiplex STI Panel ... Read More
Sign Up"Managing a lab relocation project is a monumental task—it requires extensive planning even before the first piece of equipment is moved. It is critical to establish open communication between all involved parties, an understanding of where the research will be moving to, and a well-executed plan to minimize disruption to ongoing research. In this exclusive interview, learn from Dr. Daniela Gaglio from Centro Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) Italy about her experience in managing and partner ... Read More
Sign UpA webinar sponsored by Astrix Date: Thursday, September 28, 2023 Time: 1:00 PM EST / 10:00 AM PST Presented by: Tim Martin, Executive Vice President, Product, Yseop Overview: With the explosion of generative AI and the emergence of LLMs over the last year, what are the ramifications across the clinical document landscape? Increasingly, life sciences firms are leveraging content automation solutions to maximize the efficiency, accuracy, and standardization of reporting and w ... Read More
Sign Up"The year 2020 will go down as one of the most difficult, trying, and socially polarizing years in modern history because of the global pandemic of COVID-19. Nearly every facet of life on earth faced disruptive and dynamic challenges that pushed operational processes to the brink of collapse in different ways. Laboratory medicine is no exception to this disruption and learned a great deal from these experiences. Though COVID-19 was exceptional, should the laboratory community, especially the cli ... Read More
Sign Up"How does your organization manage the information contained in large volumes of faxed documents? Is this process a modern, well-oiled machine, or is it a largely manual process from days long past? Regardless of what your process looks like, cloud fax solutions with document classification and data extraction capabilities can streamline scheduling and administrative operations at your organization significantly. Improving efficiency with document management can lead to faster decisions, better ... Read More
Sign Up"The AMIA Public Policy hosts a webinar focusing on the progress for the clinical informatics industry formally through designated occupational codes. The webinar includes: * Background on the process and AMIA’s efforts on Standard Occupational Classifications (SOC) Codes with the Department of Labor * AMIA’s initial application to the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) * Potential wins for the clinical informatics industry * How AMIA is planning for the future * Opportuni ... Read More
Sign Up"Implementing digital PCR (dPCR) into your research can offer unparalleled sensitivity and absolute quantification of DNA and RNA in samples of interest, overcoming many of the limitations of other technologies. But as with any laboratory tool, the quality of dPCR can only be as high as the quality of the assays and instrumentation used to produce it. In this webinar, Frank Bizouarn, market development manager from the Digital Biology Group at Bio-Rad, will describe the characteristics of id ... Read More
Sign UpDate: Oct 4, 2023 Company: Astrix Presenter: James O’Keefe, Head, Clinical & Regulatory Consulting, Astrix Overview: As the healthcare industry pushes towards modernizing clinical trials, recent draft guidance from the FDA, ICH, and others aims to guide the industry in adopting decentralized clinical trials (DCT) and digital health technologies for remote data acquisition. These new approaches present a significant opportunity to transform the way clinical trials are condu ... Read More
Sign Up"While automated processes are known to reduce manual error and provide cost savings for high throughput tasks, it is important to justify a new automated process both operationally and financially. Automation in sample management comes in all different shapes, prices, sizes, and technologies that can help maximize efficiency in laboratories of all disciplines. Given the current economic climate, it is even more crucial to get the most return on investment. In this webinar, Cory Tiller, SPT L ... Read More
Sign Up"Would you like to learn about surveillance for respiratory diseases in the US? Does your public health laboratory want to perform more surveillance testing but getting clinical specimens in the door is a challenge? Join this webinar to hear from public health laboratory and federal scientists describe national influenza and SARS-CoV-2 surveillance strategies and one state’s approach to sustaining a robust surveillance network." ... Read More
Sign Up"Non-alcoholic (NA) and low-alcoholic beers (LABs) are growing in demand worldwide. However, dealcoholization or arrested fermentation leads to changes in the overall aroma and flavor profiles compared to full strength (FS) beer analogues. This webinar Dr. Tiffany Crawford, Kalsec Inc., Megan Harper, GERSTEL, Inc., and Matt Curtis, Agilent will discuss a semi-targeted method developed using DHS-GC-MS technology that allows for the improvement of NA beer flavor through the addition of speciali ... Read More
Sign UpA webinar sponsored by Astrix Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 Time: 1:00 PM EST / 10:00 AM PST Presented by: David Cronin, Founder, Cognition Overview: Global health authorities will move away from unstructured submissions and toward a structured format for data and content. Using structured data from source to submission eliminates manual transcription, aggregation, and data table creation. This reduces resource needs, reduces errors, accelerates filing readiness, and su ... Read More
Sign Up"We are at a crucial moment in human history, when we are automating and offloading to machines the one key asset that has brought our tremendous success so far: our intelligence. At this point, to ask “What could possibly go wrong?” is obviously a rhetorical question. The speaker will explain why he thinks aspects of AI risk can properly be framed as a global environmental problem. But there is also hope, and he will discuss how we might get our act together and steer towards a long and flo ... Read More
Sign Up"Join us for a transformative webinar exploring the world of HL7 FHIR and its profound benefits for modern healthcare workflows and data analytics. Despite its potential, FHIR adoption remains low, largely due to exorbitant costs associated with EMR vendors and the retrofitting of existing HL7 v2 infrastructure. Discover the game-changing solution: Infor's IFOR, a 100% cloud-based service that seamlessly translates between HL7 v2 and HL7 FHIR in real time. Witness how IFOR exposes FHIR resour ... Read More
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