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Myeloproliferative Neoplasm: Morphology, Molecular Updates and Cost-Effective Test Utilization - Insights

The diagnosis of Myeloproliferative Neoplasm (MPN) must include an integrated approach and combine the clinical findings with laboratory results. In our latest “Hot Topic,” Rong He, M.D., discusses the subclassification of MPNs and the use...

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MCL @Work: Samantha Aldrich - Insights

Before joining Mayo Clinic, Samantha Aldrich worked for a multisite hospital system in Michigan for 10 years. Now, as a regional service representative for Mayo Clinic Laboratories, she serves as a client advocate and works to help send out...

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Connie Ohnstad - Insights

Connie Ohnstad is the supervisor for Mayo Clinic Laboratories Inventory, which includes Mayo Clinic Laboratories Packaging and Specimen Kit Orders (SKO). Connie wears many hats as a supervisor at MCL, and she has a long history with Mayo...

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Elise Bieri Patzke - Insights

Elise Bieri Patzke has worked at Mayo Clinic for 17 years and is currently a project manager in Mayo Clinic BioPharma Diagnostics. She enjoys collaborating with her laboratory colleagues to pursue test development projects and biopharma...

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Clyde Christian III - Insights

Following a connection on LinkedIn, Clyde Christian found himself drawn to Mayo Clinic and joined the Hospital Sales division of Mayo Clinic Laboratories in late May 2022. As a hospital account executive for the U.S. Great Lakes region,...

MCL @Work: Ben Levno - Insights

As a senior product manager for Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Ben Levno supports the neurology segment of specialty testing. While Mayo Clinic physicians have access to our world-renowned neurology testing to diagnose and care for patients,...

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Sainu Owusu-Afriyie - Insights

Sainu Owusu-Afriyie has held a wide range of laboratory roles throughout her career at Mayo Clinic. Now she’s focused on strategic management, where the work can sometime be ambiguous, but the focus remains squarely on benefitting patients.

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Grant Elmquist - Insights

Working with Mayo Clinic BioPharma Diagnostics clients, Grant Elmquist is engaged in a wide range of activities that span research and science technology, as well as a host of disease states, all with the end goal of enhancing patient care.

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Cara Ryan - Insights

As director of Contract Administration, Cara Ryan’s work spans a diverse range of activities that connect with a variety of groups across the organization, all with a goal of supporting patient care.

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Deb Hagen-Moe - Insights

As manager of the department’s Education Program, Deb Hagen-Moe and her team welcome new staff to Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. Then they continue to offer a wide range of continuing education and...

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Todd Walker - Insights

Todd Walker is a laboratory supervisor for Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Specimen Operations, where he helps lead the department that serves as the gateway between collecting and delivering specimens and getting them processed. Todd credits his...

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Tim Plummer - Insights

Tim Plummer is an operations administrator at Mayo Clinic Laboratories supporting the Division of Anatomic Pathology. He supports his team members by providing them with tools and resources to innovate and succeed. He has worked at Mayo...

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Paul Schneider - Insights

As a national accounts executive for Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Paul Schneider helps to improve and advance diagnostic patient care by bringing Mayo Clinic Laboratories testing to many of the nation’s top health care systems.

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Meredith Clark - Insights

As a bid coordinator, Meredith Clark’s work helps expand testing capabilities for Mayo Clinic Laboratories clients, so they can offer the right test at the right time for the right patient.

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Connect with us at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting to learn how our evaluations can inform your clinical practice.

What's New in Health Care Reform: Jan. 2 - Insights

Top highlights include: "big pharma" returning to raising U.S. prices in January after pause; crowdfunding drives funds and attention toward questionable medical treatments; Americans rate health care providers high on honesty, ethics,...

What's New in Health Care Reform: Feb. 20 - Insights

Top highlights include: Flu shot kept about 50% from going to doctor, racial disparities in cancer incidence and survival rates are narrowing, having anesthesia once as a baby does not cause learning disabilities, personalized diet predicts...

Second-Tier Assay for MPS I Newborn Screening Shows Remarkable Reduction of False Positives - Insights

Mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS I) is a rare genetic disorder that typically presents with progressive multisystem involvement in early childhood. This condition results from the deficiency of the enzyme, alpha-L-iduronidase (IDUA), which...

What's New in Health Care Reform: Jan. 16 - Insights

Top highlights include: Up to 84,000 Americans hospitalized with flu in past three months, scientists seek real way to measure, severe flu raises risk of birth problems for pregnant women, babies, deep sleep linked to early Alzheimer's...

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Boone Health: Bringing advanced diagnostic care to underserved rural areas - Insights

Situated in a sprawling geographic region in mid-Missouri, Boone Health expanded its reach to improve access to high-quality holistic care throughout the area, improving the health of community members and increasing net revenue along the...

Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers: Expanding diagnostic care in a rural community - Insights

By collaborating with Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Morris Hospital & Healthcare Center has been able to expand complex and specialized lab testing in the communities they serve.

November 2023 - Clinical Informatics - Insights

This "Pathways" program provides a Clinical Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Clinical Informatics.

Advanced Diagnostics Laboratory helps improve the way oncologists treat patients through development of the Mayo Complete Solid Tumor Panel - Insights

Founded in 2017, Mayo Clinic's Advanced Diagnostics Laboratory is a visionary space. In 2021, the lab developed the Mayo Complete Solid Tumor Panel, a clinically validated assay that analyzes 515 genes using next-generation sequencing. This...

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Nailing the Suspect: The Prevalence of Autoimmune Encephalitis Compared with Infectious Encephalitis - Insights

For people with encephalitis, rapid treatment of their acute brain inflammation is critical for avoiding devastating physical and cognitive deficits. But appropriate treatment requires identifying the culprit causing the symptoms.

September 2023 - Cytopathology - Insights

This "Pathways" program provides an Anatomic Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Cytopathology.

Myeloid Blast and Maturation Assessment by Flow Cytometry ("MDS Flow") - Insights

Flow cytometric immunophenotyping method can be useful in assessing myeloid dysmaturation. In this “Hot Topic,” Dragon Jevremovic, M.D., Ph.D., describes a new flow cytometric test to detect aberrant patterns of expression in the diagnosis...

Staffing to Workload: Direct Effort - Insights

Mike Baisch, Systems Engineer at Mayo Clinic, discusses the mechanics of performing a staffing-to-workload analysis in the testing laboratories. There are three primary areas of focus with staffing needs: direct effort, indirect effort, and...

Staffing to Workload: Operational Needs - Insights

Mike Baisch, Systems Engineer at Mayo Clinic, discusses the mechanics of performing a staffing-to-workload analysis in the testing laboratories. There are three primary areas of focus with staffing needs: direct effort, indirect effort, and...

Staffing to Workload: Indirect Effort - Insights

Mike Baisch, Systems Engineer at Mayo Clinic, discusses the mechanics of performing a staffing-to-workload analysis in the testing laboratories. There are three primary areas of focus with staffing needs: direct effort, indirect effort, and...

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Joel Cayou - Insights

Joel Cayou’s goal as a supervisor in Specimen Handling is to support his staff wherever he can in the vital work they do to keep Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ operations running efficiently.

Mayo Clinic Labs @Work: Dr. Vanda Lennon - Insights

A pioneering researcher, Dr. Vanda Lennon has spent five decades delving into questions of neuroimmunology. Today, she continues that work as director of the Neuroimmunology Research Laboratory in Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory...

CPT codes and LOINC update: October 2020 - Insights

The following list includes updates posted to mayocliniclabs.com during the month of October.

CPT codes and LOINC update: January 2022 - Insights

CPT code updates posted to mayocliniclabs.com during the month of January.

Our staff, our stories: Patrice Brown - Insights

Patrice Brown, PA(ASCP), shares her story of growing up in Virginia and moving to Rochester, Minnesota to work at Mayo Clinic. She also shares her unique perspective of traveling internationally as COVID-19 was starting to spread.

July 2023 - Clinical Microbiology - Insights

This "Pathways" program provides a Clinical Pathology case that includes a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. This case sub-specialty is Clinical Microbiology.

Weather Preparedness: Hey, How's That Weather? - Insights

Weather always seems to be at the forefront of people's minds and discussions—especially in Minnesota. We are always commenting on needing more rain, that it’s too cold, or that a blizzard is on its way. Weather, however, is no trivial...

Applying the Staffing-to-Workload Methodology: Identifying Daily Indirect Effort Needs - Insights

Mike Baisch, Principal Systems Engineer at Mayo Clinic, demonstrates how daily indirect effort tasks contribute to staffing plans and needs in the staffing-to-workload methodology.

1830s and 1840s: Mayo's First Mentor #ThrowbackThursday - Insights

When making an announcement or accepting a professional recognition, William J. Mayo, M.D., and Charles Mayo, M.D., often spoke in terms of “my brother and I” and “our father taught us.” These statements are some of the institution’s...

Mayo Clinic Offers New Prostate Cancer Test from Beckman Coulter, Reduces Unnecessary Biopsies - Insights

The prostate health index or phi test reduces the need for prostate cancer biopsies by 30 percent.

Research - Insights

The exchange of medical knowledge is a founding principle of Mayo Clinic. William J. Mayo, M.D., said it best: “It is a great thing to make scientific discoveries of rare value, but it is even greater to be willing to share these...

Research - Insights

The exchange of medical knowledge is a founding principle of Mayo Clinic. William J. Mayo, M.D., said it best: “It is a great thing to make scientific discoveries of rare value, but it is even greater to be willing to share these...

Eye on Innovation - Insights

Eye on Innovation features exciting advances taking place at Mayo Clinic Laboratories. This monthly series shines a spotlight on recently developed tests, and highlights how Mayo Clinic translates ideas and discoveries into testing...