Clinical laboratory analytics: Challenges and promise for an emerging discipline

The clinical laboratory is a major source of health care data. Increasingly these data are being integrated with other data to inform health system-wide actions meant to improve diagnostic test utilization, service efficiency, and "meaningful use." The Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physic...

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Main Authors: Brian H Shirts (Author), Brian R Jackson (Author), Geoffrey S Baird (Author), Jason M Baron (Author), Bryan Clements (Author), Ricky Grisson (Author), Ronald George Hauser (Author), Julie R Taylor (Author), Enrique Terrazas (Author), Brad Brimhall (Author)
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Published: Elsevier, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Summary:The clinical laboratory is a major source of health care data. Increasingly these data are being integrated with other data to inform health system-wide actions meant to improve diagnostic test utilization, service efficiency, and "meaningful use." The Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists hosted a satellite meeting on clinical laboratory analytics in conjunction with their annual meeting on May 29, 2014 in San Francisco. There were 80 registrants for the clinical laboratory analytics meeting. The meeting featured short presentations on current trends in clinical laboratory analytics and several panel discussions on data science in laboratory medicine, laboratory data and its role in the larger healthcare system, integrating laboratory analytics, and data sharing for collaborative analytics. One main goal of meeting was to have an open forum of leaders that work with the "big data" clinical laboratories produce. This article summarizes the proceedings of the meeting and content discussed.
Item Description:2153-3539
10.4103/2153-3539.151919