Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
An opportunity to demonstrate your patient impact! If we face the reality that the laboratory future must involve a closer interaction with clinical care and outcomes, here's an award that focuses on that very thing. Demonstrate how your lab results improve care and benefit patients, and your healthcare organization will receive and award from a consortium of AACC, IFCC, HIMSS, Modern Healthcare and more: https://lnkd.in/dGBz5Fq hashtag#Univants hashtag#labfuture
[full disclosure: this award is sponsored in part by Abbott Diagnostics, a company with which Westgard QC has business.]
Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
As several people know, the highlight of the Antwerp Quality in the Spotlight conference is not the Westgard Award, but the "Limerick Challenge" of the evening dinner.
In 2016, there was a scandalous episode of nepotism, which resulted in the winning team containing not only myself ("a" Westgard) but also Jochem Goldschmidt ("a" Goldschmidt, son of the conference organizer). Thus, we received lifetime bans from participating in future Limerick contests. And founds ourselves running the Limerick as Quiz Masters this year.
Since the overall theme of the conference this year was "next generation" - that, too, became the theme of the Limerick contest.
Here myself and Jochem on the right are presenting the prize (a bottle of champagne, to be consumed that evening)
After the jump... the winners and the winning limerick
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Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
Remember in 2017 when there were predictions that Theranos wouldn't last out the year?
It appears reports of Theranos' death were greatly exaggerated... or maybe not
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Posted by Sten Westgard, MS [first posted on LinkedIn]
Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
The third year of Medicare penalties has been meted out. This year hospitals were penalized for avoidable complications such as various types of infections, blood clots, bed sores, falls, and new to the list this year, the prevalence of two types of bacteria resistant to drugs.
Do you want to guess the percentage of injuries that impacted patients in US healthcare?
- 15%
- 11.5%
- 1.15%
- 0.115%
The answer, after the jump...
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