☝ Alerts
- FDA Issues Public Health Notification on Glucose Monitoring Technology
- Fraudulent Certification (alert from the ASCP Board of Certification)
- FDA Fines American Red Cross $16 Million for Prior Failures to Meet Blood Safety Laws
- Letter from the CDC on Reporting GC/CT NAAT Results
- FAQs about the CDC Letter on Reporting GC/CT NAAT Results
- Abbott Recall: Abbott Diabetes Care Announces Recall of 359 Million Test Strips
- Physician Signature Requirement Call for Action
- CoaguChek XS and CoaguChek XS Plus Meters (Roche)
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Initiates a Nationwide Voluntary Recall of Coumadin (Warfarin Sodium)
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Initiates a Nationwide Voluntary Recall of Coumadin 1 mg Tablet Blister Packs
- Urgent Field Safety Notice Product Correction: Access Immunoassay Systems (Beckman Coulter)
- Urgent Field Safety Notice Product Correction: Unicel DXI Immunoassay Systems (Beckman Coulter)
- FDA Solicits Comments on Guidance Document: Premarket Notification Requirements
- CMS New Releases: Delay of ICD-10 Implementation; Stage 2 Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records
☝ COLA Criteria
- Environmental Issues
- Quality Control: New Lot Number Verification
- Compliance Tip: PER 3
- Compliance Tip: PER 4
- Compliance Tip: PER 5
- COLA Technical Bulletin 2011-1: Changes to Survey Criteria: BA 2, BA 7, M 8
- COLA Technical Bulletin 2011-2: Changes to Survey Criteria: QC 24
- COLA Technical Bulletin 2012-1: Updates to Survey Criteria
- Compliance Tip: ORG 9 & ORG 10
- Spotlight on COLA Criterion: HE4
- Compliance Tip: HE4
- Criteria Updates, including list of updated criteria
- Current Credentialing Practices – PER3
- Competency Assessment – PER5
- Clinical Microbiology
- Cultures: GC, Throat, and Urine
- COLA Criteria for Record Retention for Transfusion Services
- LDR 1E Does the Laboratory Director meet the General Responsibilities of the position?
- LDR 2E – Does the Laboratory Director meet the Procedural Responsibilities of the position?
- LDR 3E – Does the Laboratory Director meet the Personnel Management Responsibilities of the position?
- LDR 4E – Does the Laboratory Director meet the Proficiency Testing Responsibilities of the position?
- LDR5E – Does the Laboratory Director meet the Quality Control and Quality Assessment Responsibilities of the position?
- LDR 6R – Laboratory Director Continuing Education Program
- Technical Bulletin – LDR 6
- PCLE Criteria
- Introducing COLA Criteria for Mass Spectrometry
- COLA Technical Bulletin 2014-5: Updates to Survey Criteria – IH & TS
- COLA CRITERIA OVERVIEW: Immunohematology and Transfusion Services
- COLA Criteria: Applying Quality Standards
- Risk Management (IQCP) and Applicable COLA Criteria
- QC Plan and Applicable COLA Criteria
- IQCP QA Plan and Applicable COLA Criteria
- Summary of New IQCP Criteria and Implementation
- Summary of Present QC Criteria Replaced by IQCP Criteria Final
- IQCP COLA Criteria and implementation
☝ COLA FAST FACTS
☝ COLA Processes and Services
- Benefit From the COLA Self-Assessment Process for Every Survey!
- New MLE CEexpress Online Course: MLE CEexpress 10 – Clinical Microscopy
- Symposium for Clinical Laboratories: Dallas TX: New Hematology Sessions
- COLA Launches New Education Platform
- Online Continuing Education
- Symposium for Clinical Laboratories: Dallas TX: Overview of Selected Course Sessions
- COLA Update
- Symposium for Clinical Laboratories: Las Vegas NV: Overview of Selected Sessions
- Educational Updates – Webinars, Symposia, Online Courses
- COLA’s Symposium
- COLA: Future Initiatives
- Patient Centered Laboratory Excellence
- Continuing Education
- Proficiency Testing: COLA Processes
- Plan of Required Improvement (PRI) – Overview
- PRI Letter Terms and Concepts
- Example of PRI Letter
- COLA Surveyors From Across America
- CRI Symposium Speakers of Note
- COLACARES Scholarship
- 2014 CRI Symposium Highlights
- Educational Resources Available to COLA Laboratories
- Team Assistance for COLA Laboratories
- COLA Leads the Charge to Protect Near Patient (In office) Testing
☝ COLA Technical Bulletins
- COLA Technical Bulletin 2011-1: Changes to Survey Criteria: BA 2, BA 7, M 8
- COLA Technical Bulletin 2011-2: Changes to Survey Criteria: QC 24
- COLA Technical Bulletin 2012-1: Updates to Survey Criteria
- COLA Technical Bulletin 2014-4: New Criteria for Mass Spectrometry
- COLA Technical Bulletin 2014-5: Updates to Survey Criteria – IH & TS
☝ Competency Assessment
☝ Compliance Tips
☝ CRI
☝ Incident Management
☝ Laboratory Information Systems
- Meaningful Use of EHR
- HITECH and the Medical Laboratory
- HITECH and COLAcentral
- Electronic Health Record (EHR) Safety
- A History of Electronic Health Records, and the Important Role of Lab Professionals In its Development and Application
- Rapid Response: Infectious Disease Reporting through Electronic Lab Records
☝ Laboratory Management
- Succession Planning, Part 1 (finding a new LD)
- Succession Planning, Part 2 (finding a new LD)
- Laboratory Director Responsibilities List, Part 1
- Laboratory Director Responsibilities List, Part 2
- COLA Salutes Lab Professionals During Lab Week
- Fraudulent Certification (alert from the ASCP Board of Certification)
- FDA Updates
- Meaningful Use of EHR
- Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC) Expansion
- ICD-10 Upgrad
- Physician Office Laboratory Financial Considerations
- The Clinical Laboratory and the FDA
- Manufacturers and the FDA
- Medical Device Reporting
- Document Management
- NEW Continuous Quality Program
- Continuous Quality Program
- Reducing Citations and Quality Lab Management
- LDR Overview
- LDR 1E Does the Laboratory Director meet the General Responsibilities of the position?
- LDR 2E – Does the Laboratory Director meet the Procedural Responsibilities of the position?
- LDR 3E – Does the Laboratory Director meet the Personnel Management Responsibilities of the position?
- LDR 4E – Does the Laboratory Director meet the Proficiency Testing Responsibilities of the position?
- LDR5E – Does the Laboratory Director meet the Quality Control and Quality Assessment Responsibilities of the position?
- LDR 6R – Laboratory Director Continuing Education Program
- Technical Bulletin – LDR 6
- LDR Support Chart
- Tips for Assistance in Compliance
- Personalized Medicine – How Does the Lab Fit in?
- The Cost Effective Laboratory: Right-sizing Your Instrumentation and Test Menus
- The Cost Effective Laboratory: Staffing Strategies
- The Cost Effective Laboratory: Competent Management: the Key to Effective Strategies
- The Cost Effective laboratory: Value-added Services
- The Cost Effective Laboratory: Sustaining Quality While Cutting Coats
- The Cost Effective Labortory: Overview
- Direct Access To Test Results
- Clinical Consultant – Roles and Responsibilities
- Staffing Matters
- Effective Management of Staff Communication
- Effective Team Building
- The Right Tests
- The Right Level of Automation for Your Lab
- The Right Tests Through Utilization Management
- Preparing For Your Next Laboratory Survey
- Survey Preparation Through Review of Commonly Cited Deficiencies
- Survey Preparation When You Have an IQCP Program
- Survey Preparation for Your Point of Care Testing
- Retail Medicine Quality of Care Concern
- Shared Laboratories: Regulatory Requirements and Professional Considerations
- The Increasing Acceptance of Non-laboratory Personnel for Laboratory Testing: an Important Challenge To the Laboratory
☝ Lab Testing Matters
- Stories From the Front Line of Labs
- Stories From the Front Line of Labs
- Stories From the Front Line of Labs
- Stories From the Front Lines
- Stories From the Front Lines
- Stories From the Front Lines
- Stories From the Front Lines
- Stories From the Front Lines
- Stories From the Front Lines
- Stories From the Front Lines
☝ Mass Spectrometry
☝ Patient Centered Lab Excellence (PCLE)
☝ Personnel
- Laboratory Director Responsibilities List, Part 1
- Making the Most of Attending a Conference
- Succession Planning, Part 1 (finding a new LD)
- Succession Planning, Part 2 (finding a new LD)
- Laboratory Director Responsibilities List, Part 1
- Laboratory Director Responsibilities List, Part 2
- COLA Salutes Lab Professionals During Lab Week
- Certification Unity
- Fraudulent Certification (alert from the ASCP Board of Certification)
- Compliance Tip: PER 3
- Compliance Tip: PER 4
- Compliance Tip: PER 5
- Current Credentialing Practices – PER3
- Competency Assessment – PER5
- LDR Overview
- Clinical Consultant – Roles and Responsibilities
- Staffing Matters
- Effective Management of Staff Communications
- Effective Team Building
- The Increasing Acceptance of Non-laboratory Personnel for Laboratory Testing: an Important Challenge To the Laboratory
☝ Proficiency Testing
- Proficiency Testing (PT): Overview
- PT: Provider Responsibilities
- PT: COLA Processes
- PT: Approved Providers
- PT: Regulated Analytes
- Proficiency Testing Overview
- Proficiency Testing: COLA Processes
- CMS Approved Proficiency Testing Providers
- Proficiency Testing (PT): New Regulation Promotes Burden Reduction
☝ Quality Assurance / Quality Assessment
☝ Quality Control
- Quality Control: New Lot Number Verification
- NEW Continuous Quality Program
- Continuous Quality Program
- EQC, EP23, IQCP
- Evolution of QC
- What Is IQCP?
- Risk Management (IQCP)
- COLA Compliance Tip QC 24
- EQC Begins Transition to IQCP January 1, 2014
- CRI IQCP Program
- CRI IQCP Workshop
- IQCP Attendee Follow Up
- CRI IQCP Road Tour
- Quality Control Planning
- EQC Changes to IQCP January 1, 2014
- Overview of IQCP
- IQCP Preparation and Planning
- Risk Management (IQCP) and Applicable COLA Criteria
- QC Plan and Applicable COLA Criteria
- IQCP QA Plan and Applicable COLA Criteria
- Summary of New IQCP Criteria and Implementation
- Summary of Present QC Criteria Replaced by IQCP Criteria Final
- IQCP COLA Criteria and implementation
- IQCP and Microbiology
☝ Quality Management Systems
☝ Regulations and Requirements
- Succession Planning, Part 1 (finding a new LD)
- Laboratory Director Responsibilities List, Part 1
- Meaningful Use of EHR
- HITECH and the Medical Laboratory
- Physician Signature Requirement
- Physician Signature Requirement Call for Action
- Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC) Expansion
- ICD-10 Upgrade
- Physician Office Laboratory Financial Considerations
- The Clinical Laboratory and the FDA
- Manufacturers and the FDA
- Medical Device Reporting
- 2011: The Year in Review
- ICD-10 Update
- ACO Update
- RAC Update
- EHR Update
- CMS MLN Matters: RAC Demand Letters
- CMS New Releases: Delay of ICD-10 Implementation; Stage 2 Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records
- EQC, EP23, IQCP
- Regulated Analytes for Nonwaived Testing
- California Deeming
- Laboratory Developed Tests (LDT): Greater Role Leads to Increased Federal Oversight
- Shared Laboratories: Regulatory Requirements and Professional Considerations
☝ Safety
- COLA Patient Safety Goal for 2009
- COLA Patient Safety Goal for 2010
- COLA Patient Safety Goal for 2011
- COLA Patient Safety Goal for 2012
- Safety First! How to Conduct an Effective Safety Audit
- New MLE CEexpress Online Course: MLE CEexpress 9: Bloodborne Pathogen Safety in the Lab
- Patient Safety Resource: AHRQ Patient Safety Network (PSNet) Database
- Increasing Patient Safety by Decreasing Hospital-Acquired Infections
- FDA Fines American Red Cross $16 Million for Prior Failures to Meet Blood Safety Laws
- Patient Safety: Create A Culture of Safety
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Initiates a Nationwide Voluntary Recall of Coumadin (Warfarin Sodium)
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Initiates a Nationwide Voluntary Recall of Coumadin 1 mg Tablet Blister Packs
- Urgent Field Safety Notice Product Correction: Access Immunoassay Systems (Beckman Coulter)
- Urgent Field Safety Notice Product Correction: Unicel DXI Immunoassay Systems (Beckman Coulter)
- Waived Testing and Patient Safety
☝ Specialties and Test Systems
- The Right Tests
- The Right Level of Automation for Your Lab
- The Right Tests Through Utilization Management
- CoaguChek XS and CoaguChek XS Plus Meters (Roche)
- Basic Hematology: The CBC
- Hematology Instrument Flags
- Clinical Microbiology
- Cultures: GC, Throat, and Urine
- AffirmTM VPIII
- Rapid Response: Infectious Disease Reporting through Electronic Lab Records
- An Overview of the Role of the Laboratory in Infection Control
- Importance of Proper Specimen Collection and Handling for Microbiological Studies
- Role of the Microbiology Laboratory on the Infection Control Team
- IQCP and Microbiology
- “Transfusion Only” Laboratories
- Immunohematology and Transfusion Services
- COLA Criteria for Record Retention for Transfusion Services
- COLA Technical Bulletin 2014-5: Updates to Survey Criteria – IH & TS
- COLA CRITERIA OVERVIEW: Immunohematology and Transfusion Services
- Guidance on Facilities that Provide Transfusion Services
☝ Trending
- The Rise of Retail Medicine
- Retail Medicine Quality of Care Concern
- The Increasing Acceptance of Non-laboratory Personnel for Laboratory Testing: an Important Challenge To the Laboratory
- Personalized Medicine: The Future is Here!
- Pharmacogenomic Testing / Companion Diagnostics
- Value-based Healthcare and the Enhanced Role of the Laboratory