Background Laboratory testing is the single highest-volume medical activity and drives
clinical decision-making across medicine. However, the overall landscape of inappropriate …

For many years, the clinical laboratory's focus on analytical quality has resulted in an error
rate of 4-5 sigma, which surpasses most other areas in healthcare. However, greater …

While evidence-based medicine has increasingly broad-based support in health care, it
remains difficult to get physicians to actually practice it. Across most domains in medicine …

PURPOSE: Electronic medical record systems improve the quality of patient care and
decrease medical errors, but their financial effects have not been as well documented. The …

In this paper we assess the value of electronic health care information exchange and
interoperability (HIEI) between providers (hospitals and medical group practices) and …

Aims To identify factors contributing to laboratory overutilisation in an academic medical
department, and to assess the effect of an educational feedback strategy on inappropriate …

Understanding whether electronic health records, as currently adopted, improve quality and
efficiency has important implications for how best to employ the estimated $20 billion in …

Recent healthcare reform has focused on reducing excessive waste in the US healthcare
system, with duplicate testing being one of the main culprits. We explore the factors …

We summarize information on quality indicators related to laboratory testing from published
literature and Internet sources to assess current gaps with respect to stages of the laboratory …

A myriad of errors and lost improvement opportunities result from failure of clinical laboratory
and pharmacy information systems to effectively communicate. Pharmacotherapy could …