Clinical Pathology Laboratories Are Adopting Different Operational Models to Deliver More Value to Clinicians

At Executive Edge in Toronto this week, James Tucker (above) Partner and Managing Director of Boston Consulting Group, delivered a keynote address about the changes happening in the clinical laboratory marketplace and the strategies available to medical laboratories to meet these challenges.

Tucker identified four ways to improve the utilization of medical laboratory tests. They are:

• Manage underutilization of lab tests by introducing protocols designed to help clinicians avoid acute incidents and improve patient outcomes;
• Manage overutilization of lab tests by helping clinicians recognize when tests are inappropriate;
• Improve chronic care management by helping patients with self-testing; and,
• Eliminate obsolete or ineffective lab tests by shifting test mix to more clinically useful assays.

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Across Canada, Clinical Pathology Laboratories Are Adopting Different Operational Models to Deliver More Value to Clinicians 

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Image credits: abc laboratories

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