In the current healthcare climate, pressures for cost control are extreme. Every sector is
required to justify activities and expenditures through demonstrated value to patient …

The pressure on healthcare budgets including laboratory medicine is relentless and the
focus on activities and costs remains the dominant funding model of laboratory medicine …

deliver the benefit. An important implication of these assumptions is that a test result alone is
of no value to any of the stakeholders, with the exception of the laboratory medicine service …

Background The innovation pathway by which a newly discovered biomarker is developed
into a medical test and used in routine clinical practice comprises a number of different …

Ministries of Health as well as hospital chief executive officers, department heads, and
medical directors from a wide range of hospital types consistently rate quality care and value …

Value is now becoming a key driver in the ongoing development of healthcare delivery; key
facets include the identification of what is valuable and how that value can be identified …

The role and responsibilities of laboratory professionals are impressively changing. Clinical
and technical background is no longer sufficient, since laboratory activity is now increasingly …

The Coordinating Council on the Clinical Laboratory Workforce (CCCLW) initiated a task
force charged with describing the value of clinical laboratory medicine toward the …

In the last few decades, laboratory medicine has undergone monumental changes and the
landscape of clinical laboratories is still evolving over time. In particular, data on laboratory …

The changing health-care environment is creating a new opportunities for laboratory
medicine professionals that correspond with the new health services research agendas …