Clinical pathology selected abstracts
April 2016—Effects of testosterone treatment in older men: a set of clinical trials; Multifaceted intervention to reduce inpatient laboratory costs
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April 2016
Newsbytes, 4/16
April 2016—Finding, fixing, and foiling shadow IT problems: The unsanctioned use of mobile devices and cloud-based software in the workplace, often referred to as shadow IT, is a pervasive problem. Yet, through education and enforcement of policies, it’s a problem that can be minimized.
In memoriam: Thomas P. Wood, MD | 1929–2016
April 2016—Thomas P. Wood, MD, the 25th president of the CAP, died Feb. 15 at age 87. Dr. Wood was speaker of the House of Delegates from 1992 to 1995, president-elect from 1995 to 1997, and president from 1997 to 1999. He was a longtime member of the Professional Affairs Committee (which he also chaired) and the Council on Government and Professional Affairs, and he was a board director of the CAP Foundation for six years. In 2000, the CAP recognized him as Pathologist of the Year.
Beyond connectivity: middleware’s shifting shape
April 2016—Middleware was always about connectivity. But when it emerged on the scene some 20 years ago, connectivity involved basically one mandate: getting laboratory instruments to talk electronically to a hospital’s laboratory information system, accept orders, and deliver results to the right shelves in the LIS warehouse.
Put It on the Board, 4/16
April 2016—Logistics hurdles overcome for single Pap-HPV report: Is one test better than two? That question—primary HPV versus the Pap-HPV cotesting option—has roiled the world of cervical cancer screening since the Food and Drug Administration approved a primary HPV screening test in April 2014. However clinicians decide to answer that question, this much is clear: A single report is better than two separate results.
Molecular Pathology Selected Abstracts, 4/16
April 2016—Genomic analyses to identify molecular subtypes of pancreatic cancer; Utility of noninvasive prenatal screening to detect abnormalities genome wide