By: O.J. Bradshaw, MLS (ASCP) Laboratory Specialist Posted: July 3, 2025Your laboratory blood bank must have a defined system for storing blood and blood products, and adequate refrigerated space for its needs. The storage system includes: Areas for available,...
By: Chris Wetzel, MLS (ASCP) Laboratory Specialist Posted: May 22, 2025Evaluation of competency is expected for all laboratory testing personnel. This occurs at least twice in the first year that the individual is testing patient specimens and at least annually...
Implementation Deadline Approaching for Adapting to Proficiency Testing RegulationsClinical laboratories produce test results that are crucial to providers’ decision-making in ensuring patients receive consistently high-quality care. How do laboratories ensure...
Heads Up, Laboratories! Dengue Virus, Novel Influenza, and More Increased Risk of Dengue Virus Brings Lab Capacity Expansion On June 25, 2024, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Health Alert Network (HAN) message about an increased risk...
U.S. Agencies Monitoring Avian Influenza While Measles and Mpox Demand Attention, Too Posted: May 6, 2024 Influenza A/H5 Subtyping Diagnostic Tests Being Licensed for Free Since identifying a human case of A/H5 influenza in Colorado in 2022, the U.S. Centers for...
CMS Publishes Final Rule Updating CLIA Regulations Posted: February 27, 2024The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published final rule CMS-3326-F to update the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) regulations. This final...
How Office Visit Notes Support Sleep CarePosted: July 19, 2023 A one-year countdown is under way for July 11, 2024. That is the effective date for the proficiency testing (PT) requirement revisions that will affect some clinical laboratories. The revisions include the...
How Office Visit Notes Support Sleep CarePosted: April 11, 2023Office visit notes from the patient’s referring physician/provider documenting the supporting symptoms associated with the patient’s need for sleep testing are critical to the client/patient record. They...
COVID-19 Tests Recalled and Others Approved; Cholera Review UrgedPosted: December 28, 2022COVID-19 tests continue to be frequent topics, as does cholera testing: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a bulletin about a COVID-19 test recall by manufacturer...
FDA and CDC Provide Updates for Monkeypox, COVID-19, and Ebola TestingPosted: November 2, 2022 Monkeypox Updates FDA Authorizes First Commercial Monkeypox Test Kit The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to Abbott...