LabMind

LabMind

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LabMind episodes

  • Sustainability in Healthcare Organizations
    Sustainability is a hot topic for American corporations, and health systems are no exception. In this interview, Glen Garrick, system sustainability director for Intermountain Healthcare, explains how his and other healthcare organizations are addressing their environmental, social, and governance responsibilities. He also describes how clinical laboratories can make the most positive impact.
    38 min
  • Keys to Laboratory Success in the Next Pandemic
    Three and a half years after the emergence of COVID-19 is a good time to reflect on the capabilities of U.S. laboratories to respond to future pandemics. In this interview, Dr. Marc Couturier, medical director of Emerging Public Health Crises at ARUP Laboratories, explains how the U.S. laboratory sector has improved in its ability to respond quickly to emerging and reemerging infections, but he emphasizes the need to go further. He specifically explains why testing can’t be rapidly scaled up unless there’s tight coordination between public health labs and clinical labs (particularly reference labs and large academic labs).
    41 min
  • An Interview With Dr. Marc Couturier: Keys to Laboratory Success in the Next Pandemic

    Three and a half years after the emergence of COVID-19 is a good time to reflect on the capabilities of U.S. laboratories to respond to future pandemics. In this interview, Dr. Marc Couturier, medical director of Emerging Public Health Crises at ARUP Laboratories, explains how the U.S. laboratory sector has improved in its ability to respond quickly to emerging and reemerging infections, but he emphasizes the need to go further. He specifically explains why testing can’t be rapidly scaled up unless there’s tight coordination between public health labs and clinical labs (particularly reference labs and large academic labs).

    Click here to Register for Dr. Marc Couturier's Upcoming Webinar entitled: “How to Avoid Building an Airplane Mid Flight: Lab Medicine in the Face of Emerging Public Health Crises”

    Click Here to Listen to this Episode on ARUP's Official Website. 

    41 min
  • Optimizing Laboratory Testing for Autoimmune Neurologic Disease
    Laboratory testing can either lead to the correct diagnosis or take a clinician down a blind alley, depending on how carefully the tests are selected and performed. In this interview, a practicing neurologist (Dr. Tammy Smith) and a clinical laboratory immunologist (Dr. Lisa Peterson) explain some of the complexities of laboratory diagnosis of autoimmune neurologic disease, and how to ensure good diagnostic outcomes.
    34 min
  • An Interview With Clint Child: Bridging the Cultural Divide Between Nursing and Laboratory Medicine

    Nurses and laboratory professionals rely on each other to ensure accurate test results, but their relationships are sometimes challenging. As president of St. Alphonsus Medical Center in Nampa, Idaho, as well as a registered nurse with a doctorate degree in nursing practice, Clint Child often mediates when these two professional cultures collide. In this interview, he explains why nursing practice is less predictable and requires greater flexibility than laboratory practice. He also shares his perspective on why it’s valuable for hospital leaders to have strong ties to their local communities.

    Click Here to view this episode of the LabMind podcast on ARUP's website.

    33 min
  • Bridging the Cultural Divide Between Nursing and Laboratory Medicine
    Nurses and laboratory professionals rely on each other to ensure accurate test results, but their relationships are sometimes challenging. As president of St. Alphonsus Medical Center in Nampa, Idaho, as well as a registered nurse with a doctorate degree in nursing practice, Clint Child often mediates when these two professional cultures collide. In this interview he explains why nursing practice is less predictable and requires greater flexibility than laboratory practice. He also shares his perspective on why it’s valuable for hospital leaders to have strong ties to their local communities.
    33 min
  • An Interview With Dr. Andy Hoofnagle: Why Different Platforms Can Give Different Results for the Same Test, and What Can Be Done About It

    Physicians and patients expect laboratory tests to produce the same results, regardless of where they are performed. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case, even for FDA-approved assays. As the current chair of the College of American Pathologists committee for accuracy-based proficiency testing, Dr. Andy Hoofnagle is an authority on this industrywide problem. In this interview, he explains the root causes of inconsistent results across platforms, and how manufacturers, regulators, and professional societies might work together to solve it.

    Responses from the FDA and manufacturer can be found at https://arup.utah.edu/education/podcasts/labmindEp68.php.

    Additional Resources:  

    • “Using mass spectrometry to overcome the longstanding inaccuracy of a commercially-available clinical testosterone immunoassay” 
    • “Accuracy-Based Vitamin D Survey: Six Years of Quality Improvement Guided by Proficiency Testing”


    38 min
  • Why Different Platforms Can Give Different Results for the Same Test, and What Can Be Done About It
    Physicians and patients expect laboratory tests to produce the same results, regardless of where they are performed. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case, even for FDA-approved assays. As the current chair of the College of American Pathologists committee for accuracy-based proficiency testing, Dr. Andy Hoofnagle is an authority on this industrywide problem. In this interview, he explains the root causes of inconsistent results across platforms, and how manufacturers, regulators, and professional societies might work together to solve it.
    38 min
  • An Interview With Dr. Lauren Pearson: Lessons Learned From Automating a Hospital Laboratory

    The key to successful clinical lab automation doesn’t lie in the instruments or the conveyor belt. It lies in clarifying what the organization most needs to improve (labor efficiency? turnaround time? reliability?) followed by optimizing those factors through modeling and planning. In this interview, Dr. Lauren Pearson, ARUP’s chief medical officer for University of Utah Health, shares lessons she has learned from her recent automation projects.

    To view this podcast episode on the ARUP website: https://arup.utah.edu/education/podcasts/labmindEp67.php

    To register for Dr. Pearson's upcoming webinar entitled "Verification of Automated Urinalysis Instrumentation: Analytical and Clinical Considerations" on June 20th, 2023: https://arup.utah.edu/education/pearson-autourinalysis-2023.php

    32 min
  • Lessons Learned From Automating a Hospital Laboratory
    The key to successful clinical lab automation doesn’t lie in the instruments or the conveyor belt. It lies in clarifying what the organization most needs to improve (labor efficiency? turnaround time? reliability?) followed by optimizing those factors through modeling and planning. In this interview, Dr. Lauren Pearson, ARUP’s chief medical officer for University of Utah Health, shares lessons she has learned from her recent automation projects.
    32 min

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