Key Ingredients to Successful Justification
- Amplify the value of Pathology testing in medical decision-making
- 70% of important medical decisions involve a lab test in the in-patient setting.
- 85% of decisions in the out-patient setting involve a lab test (Critchfield)
- Explain the “cost effectiveness” of information technology investment in Pathology.
- Pathology represents 5% of hospital expenditures but 70% of value.
- Stress the need for pathology testing integration in new initiatives.
- The new challenge is to integrate AP, CP and Specialty Testing in a patient specific or disease specific manner (Integrated Reporting and Information Therapy - See Friday Workshop for more information).