Quality Management: ensures that an organization, product or service is consistent. It has four main components: quality planning, quality assurance, quality control and quality improvement. Quality management is focused not only on product and service quality, but also on the means to achieve it.
Nanoparticle drug delivery systems (nanoDDS) are among the most promising avenues for effective treatment of many disorders, accomplished by the targeted release of chemotherapeutics, peptide...
DATE: November 17th, 2015TIME: 8am PDT, 11am EDT, 4pm GMTBiobanks provide important capacity to collect large genomic data sets intended to enable the study of genetic signatures of an...
Appropriate dosing of pharmaceuticals is critical to prevent sub-therapeutic efficacy or the occurrence of adverse events. However, genetic variability may significantly influence an individu...
As hospitals and healthcare systems move toward value-based care, new management systems are needed to measure and improve clinical processes. This presents both an opportunity and a ch...
Drugs of abuse toxicology testing by immunoassays is widely used clinically, but also known to be inadequate for many clinical indications. In this presentation, the speaker will outline diff...
The 95% failure rate of anticancer therapeutic being approved after positive Phase III trials suggests that existing pre-clinical approaches and tools are inadequate predictors of clinical ou...
Is your lab constantly challenged by case back log while trying to validate new methods to identify designer drugs? Your challenge is common to many forensic toxicology labs around the world....
Despite recent developments in hyphenated techniques and column technology, analysis of small polar analytes (small organic acids, phosphorylated sugars, and underivatized amino acids) remain...
DATE: September 17, 2015TIME: 7:30AM PDT, 10:30AM EDTAs technology advances and globalization develops, our way of life has become more dependent on energy sources to power our everyday activ...
DATE: September 15, 2015TIME: 10:00AM Pacific time, 1:00PM Eastern timeThe breadth of instruments available for quantitative PCR (qPCR) has continued to grow in the past 5-10 years. With ...
Natural preservation is often cited as effective and “safe” alternative to traditional synthetic preservative systems. However, the so-called natural preservatives bring a number...
Consumer, Household, and Industrial (CH&I) formulations have increasingly driven towards more environmentally acceptable ingredients within water-based formulations, microbial control str...
Managing microbial contaminants is critical during the manufacturing of biologics, food and beverage to ensure that products meet the high quality product standard as well as staying complian...
The session will start with a brief review of the history and benefits of IQCPs. The structure and components of the IQCP will be presented with more emphasis on Risk Management Concepts. ...
Consistent accuracy in reporting quantitative viral load results is critically important to patients, their physicians and to the clinical laboratory. In clinical practice, quantitative viral...
In the case of Breast Cancer, the patient's cancer is usually detected by a mammogram or palpitation of an experienced Physician. However, these first indications that something is wrong must...
Errors in healthcare can have catastrophic results for patients. Work settings with a strong interdisciplinary teamwork culture can decrease the opportunities for errors to occur. Teamwork co...
Discussion of the guaiac based test introduced in 1971 and its' shortcomings versus Fecal Immunochemical Testing (FIT) and how it relates to acute and non-acute facilities.
Why is FIT...
Appropriate utilization of laboratory testing is important for the quality and safety in the healthcare system and to assist in the control of unnecessary costs in the healthcare system. Per...
CMS continues to make changes to how all healthcare providers are reimbursed in attempts to control the cost of the services provided to Medicare beneficiaries. This has led to value-based r...
Histology laboratories are complex with multiple steps for quality, efficiency, patient care and workflow. This presentation is to give ideas on how to improve quality in the histology labor...
The continued growth of DNA sequencing as a fundamental data output has driven the need for the ability to generate high quality data from an increasing breadth of diminishing primary sample...
Technological advances in high throughput, low cost DNA sequencing coupled with the availability of a high quality reference assembly allow us to interrogate the genome with greater precision...
As evidenced by the changes in the new Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory animals and the latest AVMA Panel on Euthanasia, it is clear that there is growing concern about the care and w...
Nanoparticle drug delivery systems (nanoDDS) are among the most promising avenues for effective treatment of many disorders, accomplished by the targeted release of chemotherapeutics, peptide...
DATE: November 17th, 2015TIME: 8am PDT, 11am EDT, 4pm GMTBiobanks provide important capacity to collect large genomic data sets intended to enable the study of genetic signatures of an...
Appropriate dosing of pharmaceuticals is critical to prevent sub-therapeutic efficacy or the occurrence of adverse events. However, genetic variability may significantly influence an individu...
As hospitals and healthcare systems move toward value-based care, new management systems are needed to measure and improve clinical processes. This presents both an opportunity and a ch...
Drugs of abuse toxicology testing by immunoassays is widely used clinically, but also known to be inadequate for many clinical indications. In this presentation, the speaker will outline diff...
The 95% failure rate of anticancer therapeutic being approved after positive Phase III trials suggests that existing pre-clinical approaches and tools are inadequate predictors of clinical ou...
Is your lab constantly challenged by case back log while trying to validate new methods to identify designer drugs? Your challenge is common to many forensic toxicology labs around the world....
Despite recent developments in hyphenated techniques and column technology, analysis of small polar analytes (small organic acids, phosphorylated sugars, and underivatized amino acids) remain...
DATE: September 17, 2015TIME: 7:30AM PDT, 10:30AM EDTAs technology advances and globalization develops, our way of life has become more dependent on energy sources to power our everyday activ...
DATE: September 15, 2015TIME: 10:00AM Pacific time, 1:00PM Eastern timeThe breadth of instruments available for quantitative PCR (qPCR) has continued to grow in the past 5-10 years. With ...
Natural preservation is often cited as effective and “safe” alternative to traditional synthetic preservative systems. However, the so-called natural preservatives bring a number...
Consumer, Household, and Industrial (CH&I) formulations have increasingly driven towards more environmentally acceptable ingredients within water-based formulations, microbial control str...
Managing microbial contaminants is critical during the manufacturing of biologics, food and beverage to ensure that products meet the high quality product standard as well as staying complian...
The session will start with a brief review of the history and benefits of IQCPs. The structure and components of the IQCP will be presented with more emphasis on Risk Management Concepts. ...
Consistent accuracy in reporting quantitative viral load results is critically important to patients, their physicians and to the clinical laboratory. In clinical practice, quantitative viral...
In the case of Breast Cancer, the patient's cancer is usually detected by a mammogram or palpitation of an experienced Physician. However, these first indications that something is wrong must...
Errors in healthcare can have catastrophic results for patients. Work settings with a strong interdisciplinary teamwork culture can decrease the opportunities for errors to occur. Teamwork co...
Discussion of the guaiac based test introduced in 1971 and its' shortcomings versus Fecal Immunochemical Testing (FIT) and how it relates to acute and non-acute facilities.
Why is FIT...
Appropriate utilization of laboratory testing is important for the quality and safety in the healthcare system and to assist in the control of unnecessary costs in the healthcare system. Per...
CMS continues to make changes to how all healthcare providers are reimbursed in attempts to control the cost of the services provided to Medicare beneficiaries. This has led to value-based r...
Histology laboratories are complex with multiple steps for quality, efficiency, patient care and workflow. This presentation is to give ideas on how to improve quality in the histology labor...
The continued growth of DNA sequencing as a fundamental data output has driven the need for the ability to generate high quality data from an increasing breadth of diminishing primary sample...
Technological advances in high throughput, low cost DNA sequencing coupled with the availability of a high quality reference assembly allow us to interrogate the genome with greater precision...
As evidenced by the changes in the new Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory animals and the latest AVMA Panel on Euthanasia, it is clear that there is growing concern about the care and w...