Thursday, May 28, 2026, 1:00–2:00 PM ET
This session is designed to improve understanding and application of recent updates to synoptic pathology reporting protocols such as the latest Reporting Template for Reporting Results of Biomarker Testing of Specimens from Patients with Carcinoma of the Breast. These changes reflect evolving clinical guidelines that directly influence diagnostic accuracy and treatment selection in breast cancer care.
Webinar presenters Thaer Khoury, MD, FCAP, Chair, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Cente, and Colin Murphy, CEO of mTuitive.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 12:00–1:00 PM ET
Hear an expert discuss the expanded clinical utility of HER2 IHC scoring in metastatic breast cancer and its impact on your practice
Webinar presenters Michelle Shiller, DO, AP, CP, MGP, FACP, Baylor University Medical Center.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital piloted a program using drones for transporting patient samples and blood products between the hospital and cancer center. The program, using Valqari drones, achieved a 100% success rate in delivering 303 packages without any damage or temperature fluctuations.
Massachusetts General Hospital implemented a clinical decision support solution to reduce unnecessary CBC and differential orders, particularly for inpatients. The solution involved an interruptive alert that targeted daily, more than daily, and as-needed orders, recommending alternative orders like CBCs without differentials.
November 2025—The Color Atlas of Body Fluids: An Illustrated Field Guide Based on Proficiency Testing, second edition, features over 1,200 photographs, 70 photo galleries, 360 illustrations, and 15 videos. The atlas, which completes the CAP’s Color Atlas series, uses images from CAP’s laboratory proficiency testing, providing authenticity and real-world variability.
October 2025—For all the effort, redos, build-outs, planning, talking, and time that went into revamping blood product orders at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, the essence can be …
October 2025—Complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) has become gradually more popular and is accepted by a small but significant group of patients in tandem with traditional medicine. CIM providers often advocate a mix of conventional tests with special test panels that may include tens to hundreds of tests that conventional providers wouldn’t order. For those who lead laboratory stewardship efforts, it can be a challenge.
September 2025—Angela Vetch, MPH, DLM(ASCP), is tired of reading about large commercial labs buying hospital laboratories’ outreach business. “There is an alternative to that story,” said Vetch, director of laboratory services at Kootenai Health, a three-hospital system in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
September 2025—Enrollment is underway now for a new CAP study that will make it possible for individual and integrated laboratories to compare inpatient analyte volumes and identify ordering practice problems. “This study is the first by the CAP that will allow system laboratories to evaluate a quality metric—inpatient test utilization—across all laboratories within their system and in comparison to like system laboratories across the U.S. and beyond,” says Richard Brown, MD, former chair and now advisor to the CAP Quality Practices Committee, whose members developed the study.
August 2025—There’s the cart before the horse. There are certain equines that should not be flogged; others should not be backed. There’s closing the stable door at an unfortunate time.
August 2025—For routine diagnostic testing, capillary blood is a reliable alternative to venous blood, say the authors of a study published in May. The study was led by Babson Diagnostics, of Austin, Tex., an independent startup spun out of Siemens Healthineers. Babson says it’s the first to validate capillary blood as a viable option for routine testing.
August 2025—The World Health Organization released new guidance this spring to provide aid in implementing patient blood management programs and toolkits to support blood health and patient safety at various resource levels. “It’s the job of the clinician to make the right decisions about blood use at the right time. Patient blood management programs help them do that,” says Sherri Ozawa, MSN, RN, a coauthor of the WHO guidance. “What documents like this and others do is help make the bridge between what laboratory professionals already know and changing clinical practice.” Ozawa is director of patient blood management operations for hc1 of Indianapolis, Ind., a company that optimizes laboratory data to improve clinical practice, enabling better patient care, streamlining operations, and reducing costs.
