The recent swine-flu outbreak has highlighted a problem many hospitals and independent labs face: a shortage of qualified lab technicians.

For pathologists, histotechs and others familiar with the workings of labs, the issue of staff shortages is nothing new. But for patients and the general public, this issue was recently brought to lig ...keep reading this post

We have finished day one of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Meeting, held at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston.  Reports are that the number of registered attendees is in the 3,500 - 4,000 range, which is an increase over last year.  In this econ ...keep reading this post

Faced with an inefficient workflow, a growing caseload, and a reliance on handwriting and visual matching, the Pathology laboratory at Henry Ford Hospital determined that it was critical to design and implement a barcode-based error-proofing system to positively identify its cassettes and slides.

How did they do it?

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We are going to be exhibiting at the upcoming United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology's (USCAP) 2009 Annual Meeting to be held at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA on March 7 - 13.

USCAP's mission is to "provide pathologists with high quality continuing medical education (CME) at the investigative and applied practice lev ...keep reading this post

I recently announced an upcoming episode of The Doctors that will show General Data’s Personal ID hospital patient wristbands in a segment on issues with color-coding wristbands in hospitals.   The episod ...keep reading this post

The issues of positive patient identification in hospitals and the use of color-coding to identify patient allergies, fall risks, etc. has now become a topic of daytime television.  

We were recently contacted by The Doctors, a CBS syndicated daytime television show.  It’s a progr ...keep reading this post