Thursday, August 20, 2026. 12 PM-1:30 PM ET
Hear from an expert in HER2 IHC whose work has contributed to current scoring guidelines.
Webinar presenter Josef Ruschoff, MD, PhD, Former Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of Targos, Senior Consultant of Discovery Life Sciences, Kassel, Germany.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
To be rescheduled to a future date
Learn about digital pathology technology that is future-ready, yet practical for today’s
laboratory needs.
Webinar presenters Scott Hammond, Senior Systems Consultant, Digital Pathology Division, Wexner Medical Center, Department of Pathology, and Ursula Hofer, Imaging Technologist, Pathology Digital Imaging Lab, Wexner Medical Center, Department of Pathology, and Sandra Banky, PA(ASCP), Director of Operations, Wexner Medical Center, Department of Pathology.
Moderated by: Bob McGonnagle, Publisher, CAP TODAY
December 2017—Smaller-scale technology and standardization are just some of what laboratories need, and it’s where the companies that make urinalysis analyzers are in part focusing their work. CAP Today spoke with three of the five whose analyzers are profiled on the following pages.
December 2017—American writer Maile Meloy published a short story collection in 2009 titled Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It. Molecular pathology laboratory directors faced with the variety of next-generation sequencing diagnostic panels might feel similarly. As the main character in Meloy’s title story asks, “What kind of fool wanted it only one way?”
October 2017—The challenge for all clinical laboratories is to produce the highest quality in vitro diagnostic results in the most efficient manner. Fortunately, high quality and high efficiency are not mutually exclusive, and the direct correlation between the two is well documented.1,2 As the quality of processes increases, so does process efficiency, which ultimately drives down costs.
July 2017—For at least some laboratories, economic conditions and capital flows are calling for a cautious approach to purchasing new laboratory instruments. As one analyst of the clinical laboratory services industry was heard to say recently: “Because of tight capital, nobody is buying anything unless it breaks.” But laboratory executives and medical directors at some of the nation’s largest health systems in the Northeast, West, and Midwest take a different view.
December 2015—Many laboratories have yet to reap the benefits of autoverification even though there is clear evidence of its benefits. During a recent internal study at Labsco, we discovered that more than 70 percent of our customers have not yet implemented AV. Of the customers who did perform AV, the highest percentage seen was about 60 percent (primarily in hematology and coagulation).
December 2015—Not everyone shares Lauren Foohey’s idea of a good time, and she knows it. “Performing urine sediment analysis under a microscope—I thought it was fun,” Foohey says with a laugh. She spent 10 years in the laboratory before ultimately becoming senior director of global marketing for point-of-care urinalysis and diabetes at Siemens Healthcare, Point of Care Diagnostics.
November 2015—Tim Skelton, MD, PhD, knows a fair amount about how to enhance the clinical value of urinalysis. It’s a subject that, as medical director of the core laboratory and laboratory informatics at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, Mass., he’s been focused on for the past three years. But he didn’t exactly set out to become an expert in that particular area. He was mainly trying to figure out why his laboratory was experiencing repeated urinalysis quality assurance failures.
October 2015—CAP TODAY’s automated molecular platforms product guide begins on page 31 and features 26 platforms from 18 companies. Faster turnaround times and higher throughput are among the capabilities that manufacturers are touting. New to the market is BioMérieux’s EasyStream, which was first installed in Europe in 2014 and sold in the U.S. this year. EliTech Group, new to the product guide, introduced its Elite InGenius this year.
August 2015—Move it, monitor it, manage it: Hardware and middleware, modules, and interfaces dominate the developments from at least five manufacturers of systems in this year’s product guide to laboratory automation systems and workcells—Beckman Coulter, Siemens, Sarstedt, Inpeco, and Cerner. The guide also includes four systems from a company new to the guide—IDS in Kumamoto, Japan—and additions from Aim Labs, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Roche, and Beckman Coulter.
April 2015—Sometimes major changes to a health care organization’s point-of-care testing system come from powerful regulatory agencies in Washington, DC. Or they may arise when a child with diabetes objects to frequent venipuncture. In either kind of case, experts say, pathologists and laboratory professionals must form strong relationships with clinicians and build structural foundations to help them meet these and other demands.
