The Longitude Prize was originally offered by the British Government to anyone who could come up with a simple method for determining a ship’s longitude when at sea. John Harrison received funding from the Board of Longitude for his work on chronometers, and his name is still the one associated with having solved this problem. […]
External Quality Assessment (EQA) is the cornerstone of quality assurance and method validation in clinical testing labs in the UK, ensuring that the results of patient investigations are reliable and comparable wherever they are produced. In this article we focus specifically on EQA for laboratories performing trace element measurements, although many of the points are […]
Molecular diagnostics is seen as the gateway to an era of personalized medicine. It detects DNA and RNA-level abnormalities that provoke and fuel most diseases. As a result, it offers precise diagnosis, determines the susceptibility of a patient to a specific disease and assesses his or her response to therapy. Moelcular diagnostics can also establish […]
Two opposing agendas confront clinical labs in terms of electronic health records (EHRs): privacy/security on the one side, and interoperability, on the other. The former involves an inward push for isolation, while the latter tends to pull technology in the other direction. There also is a major financial challenge. While healthcare providers have been given […]
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