Tag Archives: Diagnostic management teams

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.

November 2017—Many people have case conferences, but a true diagnostic management team is one in which four things happen. First, you have to meet frequently and regularly, and you have to provide a patient-specific report. Second, the report must be delivered before or during the time when treatment decisions are made. This is why a once-a-month meeting doesn’t work.

October 2017—Few pathologists and laboratory professionals would argue with the potential clinical benefit of a diagnostic management team, a group that meets often and provides timely patient-specific reports that synthesize all test results. But getting C-suite executives on board may mean uncovering whether such a team can save the hospital money.

June 2017—He is a family medicine physician who did a residency and is board certified in clinical pathology. And even he asks his clinical pathology colleagues “day in and day out” which test to do and what to do with the results.

April 2017—For decades, Michael Laposata, MD, PhD, chair of pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, has touted the value of diagnostic management teams, and in February he led the first conference dedicated to such teams, referred to as DMTs. There, Alison Woodworth, PhD, told the story of how and why she created a DMT for primary hyperaldosteronism, what it achieved, and where her DMT focus is now.