Lab Outreach: Forge Ahead or Accept Purchase Bid; Upcoming Free Webinar

Beginning in the Fall of 2013, theAssociation for Pathology Informatics (API) andSunquest Information Systems have co-sponsored a webinar series focusing on pathology and the clinical lab industry with emphasis on informatics. The fifth annual webinar series will launch on Wednesday, Sep. 20, at 1:00 p.m. ET, with a lecture by Khosrow R. Shotorbani, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Richard VanNess, Diagnostic Optimization Product Manager, TriCore Reference Laboratories. Tricore is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The title of their lecture is: Outreach: Forge Ahead or Accept Purchase Bid. Here's the link the registration page. Registration is free of charge.Khosrow recently authored an article on this same topic that was published inCAP Today (see: Outreach: Forge ahead or accept purchase bid?). I am sure that he will extend the points that he made in the article in this webinar and will also be able to answer questions. Here's a quote from this latter article:In some ways, hospital lab outreach programs are ripe for the plucking, says Stan Schofield, president ofNorDx, the core laboratory of MaineHealth in Scarborough, Me. Laboratories are being sold off for three main reasons, in his view.“First, they can’t compete at the much lower reimbursement that’s in store” whenPAMA kicks in. Second, many insurers have narrowed their networks for testing providers to just Quest and LabCorp, hindering ho...
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