Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Getting to the Next Level in Your Lab Career

Educational training programs are excellent at preparing medical lab professionals to excel in technical roles.

What becomes challenging for lab professionals is not having the tools and training to succeed in next-level career roles. This lack of preparation for more senior roles includes a limited knowledge of career options and of which senior roles would be the best fit. 

As a result, career progression for medical lab professionals is usually met with uncertainty and hesitation, and often results in professionals leaving the career they love to transition to a field they feel has more certainty.

In this webinar, Lona Small outlines how preparing for a next-level career role begins with your desire to move into these roles. By learning and addressing your core strengths and values, you will identify the roles you are best suited to and able to create a blueprint to successfully reach the right next-level role.  

Learning objectives:

• Learn about the current challenges with career progression in the clinical lab
• Explore what type of next-level career role fits your strengths
• Discuss and plan how to reach your career goals

Presenter: Lona Gordon Small
Johns Hopkins Hospital
11:00am–12:00pm EDT

Recruitment and Retention Strategies for Clinical Laboratory Scientists

In this webinar, Shawn Wierzbowski will discuss the clinical industry both from the perspective of clinical laboratory scientists and of hiring labs, with a focus on hiring practices and creative staffing approaches, as well as employee culture and benefits. With the unique perspective of having been on both sides of laboratory recruitment, Shawn will shed light on what organizations can do to be more successful at laboratory recruitment.

After attending this webinar, attendees will: 

• understand the five recruitment pitfalls that could negatively affect your ability to attract clinical lab scientists,
• learn about three strategies to increase the effectiveness of your recruitment, and
• gain expert insight on the national lab workforce shortage and what the future looks like for laboratory recruitment.

Presenter: Shawn Wierzbowski
Intro
12:30–1:30pm EDT

In Conversation with Today's Clinical Lab

Join the editors of Today’s Clinical Lab as they present what’s new in clinical industry and discuss what the recent rebrand from Clinical Lab Manager means for the future of the magazine, including the kinds of editorial offerings and webinars you can expect going forward. 

This session will include a Q&A session where you can speak with the editors about the issues that concern you most as a professional in today’s clinical lab industry.

Presenters: Miriam Bergeret, MSc, and Zahraa Chorghay, PhD
Today's Clinical Lab
2:00–3:00pm EDT

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Toward a Sustainable Clinical Lab

Providing health care services uses energy and materials that ultimately have a carbon footprint and contribute to climate change. The adverse impacts of climate change on human health are well documented, leaving health care providers in a quandary. In particular, clinical laboratories consume a lot of energy and single use materials, along with chemicals, water, and cold storage. Thus, opportunities to reduce clinical labs’ environmental impact are increasingly sought by hospital sustainability leaders. 

In this webinar, James Connelly, CEO of My Green Lab, will discuss green labs and opportunities to work toward building more sustainable clinical labs. Special guest speakers, Ilyssa O. Gordon, MD, PhD, associate professor of pathology and medical director of sustainability at the Cleveland Clinic, and Fiona Young, MSc, senior medical scientist at Irish Blood Transfusion Service National Donor Screening Laboratory, will share examples of successful changes implemented in clinical labs. 

Learning objectives: 

• Understand the environmental impact of delivering health care 
• Identify resource reduction strategies in the clinical laboratory that align with diagnostic and safety needs

Presenters: James Connelly, Fiona Young, Ilyssa O. Gordon
My Green Lab
11:00am–12:00pm EDT

Clinical Lab Quality and Performance Improvement

Laboratory results provide critical information that influences a large percentage of medical decisions necessary for good patient care. To provide accurate laboratory results, all aspects of a laboratory's operation must be aligned. Effective leadership is key to ensuring the accuracy, reliability, and timely communication of test results, but what else defines lab quality? And how can it be operationalized or measured?

During this presentation, Nancy Ross will define “laboratory quality,” and discuss its different aspects. The speaker will also share some tools for managers to keep track of quality indicators and provide a simple framework for driving performance improvement initiatives in the laboratory. This session will further discuss the different tools and ideas that lab managers can use to continuously improve their lab's performance.

Learning objectives:

• Understand the definition and aspects of "laboratory quality" and how to measure it
• Develop effective strategies to track your laboratory's quality and performance goals
• Encourage compliance among all staff
• Improve the quality and turnaround time of your lab's test results

Presenter: Nancy Ross, MS, MT(ASCP), CQIA, CMQ/OE, CLC
Founder, Improov Consulting, Inc.
12:30–1:30pm EDT

Update on Coding, Billing, and Reimbursement in Today’s Clinical Labs

Staying in compliance with ever-changing and often-ambiguous coding, billing, and reimbursement rules is a constant challenge for today’s clinical labs and pathology services, especially as new test codes continue to be developed and are frequently associated with no defined payment. In addition, ever-evolving coverage policies and changes to how Medicare and other payers reimburse molecular pathology testing present serious hurdles that affect payment. 

In this webinar, Diana Voorhees, MA, CLS, MT, SH, CLCP, CPCO, will addresses annual billing changes and critical developments currently facing laboratory medicine. 

Learning objectives: 

• Learn about procedural coding changes for 2022 
• Explore proposed changes in government reimbursement 
• Discuss pertinent policies and issues affecting coverage 
• Determine the anticipated impact of CMS editing systems 
• As time allows, delve into additional topics of interest or concern

Presenter: Diana Voorhees
Diana Voorhees
2:00–3:00pm EDT