UPDATE on Controversial Proposal Affecting Florida Laboratories
Amendment would require certain labs to use one accreditor’s services
COLA Organizes GIve Back Day with Anne Arundel County, MD Magnet School
Event held during National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week
COLA Issues Waived Testing White Paper, Calls for More Education at Waived Testing Sites
During National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week 2013, COLA raises awareness of quality challenges affecting waived testing.
COLA Featured in New Business Strategy Book
Best Seller “Grow Regardless” Cites COLA as Example of How Businesses Can Adapt to Changing Conditions
COLA Partners with Mayo Medical Laboratories
Lab Accreditor Provides Link to Test Utilization Website
CMS releases new proposed PT regulations
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued proposed regulations which would, among other things, includes regulatory revisions to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act Amendments of 1988 (CLIA 88). Specifically, the proposed rule would implement the “Taking Essential Steps for Testing Act of 2012” (Pub. L. 112-202). Enacted on December 4, 2012, the…
COLA President’s Corner, Winter 2013
By COLA CEO Douglas Beigel The Healthcare System’s Perfect Storm You hear the term “perfect storm” a lot. It typically means that a unique alignment of circumstances has occurred, one which has the potential to produce major changes in an existing status quo. The nation’s healthcare system – and with it, the clinical laboratory community…
COLA to offer lab quality program to the American College of Physicians
ACP members to receive discounts on Patient-Centered Laboratory Excellence program
COLA visits AdvaMed to discuss PCLE initiative
COLA CEO Doug Beigel, COO Paul Campognone, Chief Marketing Officer James Liggins, and Government and External Affairs Manager Richard Cross recently traveled to Washington to speak to about 30 members of AdvaMed, a trade association whose members make medical devices, diagnostic products and health information systems. The COLA representatives discussed the overall role of laboratory…
COLA Wins Prestigious Brandon Hall Award
COLA recently received a coveted Brandon Hall Group 2012 Excellence Awards Program. COLA received a Silver Award in the competition’s Learning Technology Implementations category. COLA was honored for the redesign of its labuniversity.org educational platform, designed to make it more convenient for physicians and laboratory staff to obtain laboratory training that meets certification and licensing…