Pressing for a POC testing model amid high STI rates
April 2026—Point-of-care (POC) testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is crucial for combating the rising STI rates, particularly among marginalized groups.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 1:00 PM-2 PM ET
Join us for a session to help improve diagnostic accuracy in your practice when scoring HER2 IHC 0 with faint, incomplete membrane staining in ≤10% of tumor cells vs IHC 0 with no membrane staining detected in patients with mBC.
Webinar presenter Samuel Caughron, MD, FCAP, Chief Strategy Officer, MAWD Pathology, Medical Director of Laboratory, AdventHealth Kansas City, Medical Director of Laboratory, Labcorp, President, Member & Director, Pathology Ventures, LLC
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. This program is intended for US healthcare professionals. This program is being sponsored by AstraZeneca. The speaker is being compensated for the presentation. The program is not CME accredited and may not be used for CME accreditation.
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Monday, November 16, 2026, 12:30 PM-2 PM ET
Hear experts discuss a multidisciplinary approach to oncopathology for HER2
assessments for solid tumors in the absence of a companion diagnostic.
Webinar presenters Funda Meric-Bernstam, MD, Chair, Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics Medical Director, Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, and Emina E. Torlakovic, MD, PhD, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Canadian Biomarker Quality Assurance, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and Carol Cheung, MD, PhD, JD, FRCPC, Deputy Director, Canadian Biomarker Quality, Assurance—Programme canadien d’assurance de la qualité des biomarqueurs
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Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 12:00 PM-1 PM ET
Join leading pathology experts, Savitri Krishnamurthy, MD, and Marilyn Bui, MD, PhD, for a webinar exploring potential challenges in HER2 IHC testing for breast cancer, emerging evidence supporting digital and computational pathology as assistive tools for pathologists in HER2 IHC assessment, and practical considerations for real-world implementation and adoption.
Webinar presenters Savitri Krishnamurthy, MD, Professor of Pathology, Department of Anatomical Pathology The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, and Marilyn Bui, MD, PhD, Surgical Pathologist and Cytopathologist Member and Professor, Departments of Pathology, Machine Learning, and Translational Pathology, Scientific Director, Analytic Microscopy Core Chair, Women in Oncology Executive Board Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. This program is being sponsored by Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. and AstraZeneca. The speakers are being compensated for their presentations. The program is not CME accredited and may not be used for CME credit.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
Wednesday, December 9, 2026, 12 PM-1 PM ET
Hear an expert pathologist discuss the role of HER2 IHC testing and scoring in solid tumors including endometrial, ovarian, cervical, bladder, non-small cell lung, colorectal, and biliary cancers
Webinar presenter Michelle Shiller, DO, MSPT, Baylor Sammons Cancer Center; Fulgent Genetics; Texas Cancer Interception Institute
CAP TODAY does not endorse any of the products or services named within. This program is intended for US healthcare professionals. This program is being sponsored by AstraZeneca. The speaker is being compensated for the presentation. The program is not CME accredited and may not be used for CME accreditation.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
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The quest to detect hemolysis in POC blood gas testing
August 2025—Werfen launched in July 2024 its Gem Premier 7000 with iQM3 blood gas testing system. One year in, CAP TODAY publisher Bob McGonnagle spoke with Werfen’s Kristina Powell, Ken Huffenus, and Sofia Afonso for the latest on that and about what Werfen showcased at the ADLM meeting last month.
At ADLM, sessions on race, equity, and litigation
June 2025—The Duffy null phenotype, legal matters, and unmet needs in STI testing are three of the topics on offer at the ADLM meeting next month in Chicago.
New accreditation POC requirements for coagulation testing
January 2025—The point-of-care checklist in the 2024 accreditation checklist edition, released Dec. 26, now includes requirements on coagulation specimen collection and handling.
Critical result notifications at the point of care
January 2025—A clinical laboratory team at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center took on a point-of-care testing problem common to other hospitals: documentation of critical result notification. At OSU, the documentation rate for point-of-care glucose critical result notification wasn’t high enough, and the team set out to raise it. It’s not sufficient to notify the physician or other provider. “You then have to prove you’re doing this, with documentation that the notification did in fact exist,” said Heather Stieglitz, PhD, D(ABCC), OSU co-director of clinical chemistry and toxicology, in an ADLM point-of-care testing session last summer.
New system for hemolysis detection at point of care
October 2024—Werfen launched in July its Gem Premier 7000 with iQM3 blood gas testing system that for the first time makes hemolysis detection possible at the point of care. “Not having the capability to detect hemolysis at the point of care has been a gap in the field for quite a long time,” says Heather Stieglitz, PhD, D(ABCC).
Lab’s-eye view on ‘hospital at home,’ ethics, sustainability
June 2024—At-home acute and advanced care testing, ethical quandaries, and the lab’s ecological footprint are three of the topics that ADLM meeting-goers can sign on for next month in Chicago.
7 pointers for POC cardiac troponin measurement
January 2024—Seven recommendations for the use of cardiac troponin measurement at the point of care were published last year and reported in a session at the Association for Diagnostics and Laboratory Medicine annual meeting, shortly after the recommendations appeared in print.
In ED/urgent cares, the lab tests and the POC team
December 2023—A point-of-care testing team from TriCore was part of standing up three dual emergency department/urgent care centers in as many years, with a fourth set to open in March 2024. “They are super busy, as was expected. There’s a great need for this type of site,” says Kathleen David, MT(ASCP).
Point-of-care testing scorecard spotlights hits and misses
November 2023—At the point of care, there are testing wins, some losses, and plenty of pitfalls. “Point-of-care coordinators all have the same problems,” says Meaghan Gladstone, applications consultant at Werfen.