15 AUG 2023 · In this episode of Clinical Lab Chat, Chris Wolski, CLP’s director of Business Intelligence, David West, CEO of Proscia, and Lou Welebob, vice president and general manager of pathology at Agilent, take a deep dive into the big challenges facing clinical labs today, including workforce shortages, scaling lab operations, and reimbursement, along with some of their solutions, including increased automation, agnostic platforms, and more coherent reimbursement coordination with regulatory agencies.

9 AUG 2023 · In the latest episode of Clinical Lab Chat, CLP’s director of business intelligence, Chris Wolski, has a wide-ranging discussion with Jeff Andrews, MD, FRCSC, vice president of Medical Affairs for BD, about BD’s recent STI health survey and what the findings mean for women’s health and their access to care. They also discuss the poor state of medical health education in the U.S., solutions that can help healthcare providers more efficiently test women for sexually transmitted infections, and how laboratorians can help improve testing rates.

15 MAY 2023 · In this episode of Clinical Lab Chat, Chris Wolski and his guest, medical lead at Hurdle, Alex Owens, MD, MPH, discuss the reasons for the rise of at-home testing during COVID, how at-home test improves healthcare access, and the win-win-win it brings to clinical laboratories.

28 MAR 2023 · In this episode of Clinical Lab Chat, Chris Wolski meets the Texas A&M team behind what could be an effective, highly sensitive test for Lyme disease. Artem Rogovskky, PhD, ACVM, and Dmitry Kurouski, PhD, outline why Lyme disease is a diagnostic challenge and their work on developing a Lyme disease test using Raman spectroscopy.

13 JAN 2023 · During the latest installment of Clinical Lab Chat, CLP Director of Business Intelligence Chris Wolski and Prasanth Perugupalli, chief product officer for Pramana, tackle why there have been delays in pathology labs adopting digital solutions, the business case for digital pathology, how it can change laboratory workflows, and what the future holds for digital pathology.

24 OCT 2022 · There are a number of challenges facing clinical laboratories today. Perhaps, the biggest is the ongoing laboratorian shortage. In this episode of Clinical Lab Chat, CLP’s Director of Business Intelligence Chris Wolski interviews Jim Payne, Medical Lab Assisting & Phlebotomy instructor at WEMOCO, Rochester, NY, about the successful high school program he has developed that prepares students for a career in the lab—with many of his students leaving the classroom for a lab bench the day after graduation. Has Jim found one of the keys to solve the laboratorian shortage? Listen and find out.

26 SEP 2022 · In this special edition of Clinical Lab Chat, sponsored by Sysmex America, Inc., CLP’s Director of Business Intelligence, Chris Wolski, does a deep dive into lab QA & QC best practices with Daniel Johnson, assistant director of marketing for Informatics & Service at Sysmex America, Inc. Among the topics they discuss are how to make QA and QC into a preventative and predictive programs instead of reactive tasks, the importance of data with QA and QC workflows, and the one thing Dan would change about the way labs handle QA and QC right now if he could just snap his fingers.

8 SEP 2022 · In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, there’s been a lot of focus on how it’s affecting the delivery of health care, but one area that hasn’t been as focused on is what this decision means for pre-natal testing and how labs and providers of tests need to be navigating this new landscape. In this episode of Clinical Lab Chat, Director of Business Intelligence Chris Wolski interviews Mitera Co-founder and CEO Saman Askari about the state of pre-natal testing and how at-home testing may be a bulwark in preserving reproductive rights and autonomy.

1 SEP 2022 · Of all the changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the evolution of POC and home testing is perhaps the biggest. CLP Director of Business Intelligence Chris Wolski and Hamid Erfanian, CEO of Enzo Biochem, an integrated healthcare company focused on offering life sciences, including reagents, clinical testing and molecular diagnostic products, do a deep dive on the history of POC testing, how and why it became ubiquitous during COVID-19, and what this ubiquity means for the future of the clinical laboratory.

26 JUL 2022 · Among the many challenges facing labs today is recruiting and retaining top-tier talent. Listen as Chris Wolski, director of business intelligence for CLP, sits down with Shawn Wierzbowski, founder of Intro – CLS Recruitment, for a lively and far-reaching discussion about how labs can attract and, most importantly, retain their technicians. They also discuss ways labs can cultivate talent and when and how students should be introduced to the idea of working in clinical diagnostics. For more great CLP content, subscribe! https://info.medqor.com/clpsubform