Lab InfoTech Summit 2007: Workshop and Plenary Session Lectures

Listed below are the lectures presented at the two workshops and the four plenary sessions of Lab InfoTech Summit 2007 which took place in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 5-7, at the Venetian Hotel. Links to all of the podcasts of these lectures will be available shortly.

Workshop A: Assessing and Improving the Value of Lab Services

Improving Healthcare Outcomes with Lab IT Investment
Kenneth E. Blick, Ph.D.

Are You Using Autoverification in your Lab? If Not, Why Not?
Leonard K. Dunikoski, Ph.D.

Improving the Ordering and Interpretation of Lab Tests: A Reference Lab Perspective
Brian R. Jackson, M.D.

Workshop B: Rules in the Clinical Laboratory: Design, Validation, and Process

Technical and Human Factors Associated with the Implementation of Lab Rules
Frank A. Polito, MT(ASCP), M.B.A.

Simple Lab Rules You May Never Have Considered
Mark Shearer, MCLT, MT(ASCP)
Frank A. Polito, MT(ASCP), M.B.A.

Rules Deployment in a Microbiology Laboratory
Raymond Lin Tzer Pin, F.R.C.P.A.

Plenary Sessions

Moore's Law and the Convergence of In-Vitro and In-Vivo Diagnostic Technologies
Donald W. Rucker, M.D.

The Critical Role of Pathology Informatics in Translational Research
Michael J. Becich, M.D., Ph.D.

Why Pathology and Lab Medicine Should Merge with Radiology
Bruce A. Friedman, M.D.

The Federated Electronic Health Record (FEHR): Getting Beyond HL7
Ulysses J. Balis, M.D.

Strategies for Decreasing Test TAT Utilizing Technology
Walter H. Henricks, M.D.

The Acquisition of a New LIS: A Tag Team Presentation
Hal Weiner and Dennis Winsten

RFID Tagging for Tracking Assets and Reducing Errors in the Labs
Anand S. Dighe, M.D.

Polishing Lab Core Functions with Lean and Six Sigma Tools
Steven H. Mandell, M.D.

Identifying and Avoiding Errors in Surgical Pathology
Jeffrey L. Myers, M.D.

Developing a Corporate Educational Lab Portal
Steve Still

Developing a Lab Blog for Professionals: A Work in Progress
Bruce A. Friedman, M.D.

Technologies and Tools to Search Images with Images
Ulysses J. Balis, M.D.

Prognostic and Diagnostic Evaluation of Histopathologic Images by Multispectral Imaging
Michael Feldman, M.D., Ph.D.

Standardization of the Australian Medical Data Exchange Model
Michael Legg, Ph.D.

Data Exchange Standards: Relevance for the Lab Professional
John Gilbertson, M.D.

Comments

[selorm tekpor]

I want lectures in medical lab technology every three days starting from the first semister.

[Paul Tranchida]

Thanks for putting these up, Dr.Friedman -- they're invaluable for those of us who couldn't attend this time around.