As Congress takes aim at revamping health care, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are launching an effort to establish best practices in laboratory medicine. Called the Laboratory Medicine Best Practices (LMBP) project, the goal is to provide evidence-based methods that laboratory professionals can use to evaluate practice effectiveness for improving the quality of health care, to build a more robust knowledge base for the field based on the results of systematic evidence reviews, and to improve health care quality outcomes by identifying pre- and post-analytic practices that effectively improve the use laboratory testing.

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July 2009 - Table of Contents

LIR July 2009 (full PDF issue)

G-2 Reports-Chi Solutions’ Outreach Survey Indicates Labs Leading in Profitability Measures, Falling Short on Bad Debt and DSO

LabCorp Plans to Acquire Monogram Biosciences for Approximately $155 Million

Senate Bill Proposes ‘Date of Service’ Policy Change That Will Benefit Labs

Genoptix, Myriad Genetics Lead in G-2 Reports’ First Quarter Benchmarking Analysis

Psychemedics Teams With UK’s Bupa to Market Hair Analysis Assay

Inside the Lab Industry: Washington G-2 Reports-Chi Solutions’ Latest Survey Finds Outreach Lab Profitability Over 20% and Annual Revenue Growth Over 3%

The C-Suite Perspective: Building a Business Case for Outreach

Agendia Boosts MammaPrint Sales Effort Through CLIA Lab Launch, Sales Force Expansion

GE’s $100 Million Stimulus Simplicity Program to Offer No-Interest Loans for EMR Products

CBLPath Opens Manhattan Facility

Adeona Pharma Buys Chicago’s Hartlab to Expand Degenerative Disease Diagnostic Offerings

Lab Stocks Continue Impressive Show of Strength; Up 11% Over Five Weeks, 32% Over Past 13 Weeks

Industry Buzz: CDC Seeks Help in Establishing Laboratory Best Practices