-Laboratory Director (MD)

-Laboratory Manager

-Department Supervisors

-Support Services

-Chemistry

-Coagulation

-Hematology

-Immunology

-Microbiology

-Toxicology

-Blood Bank

-Processing

-Phlebotomy

-Clerical

-LIS (lab information systems)

-Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendement

-regulations published February 1992

-Congress passed law in 1988

-regulates all testing on humans for health purposes using minimum quality standards

-Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act

-Federal law passed by Congress in 1996

-regulations overseen by Dept of Health & Human Services

-guidelines implemented in April 2003

-genetic advancements

-marketing

-technology

-Occupational Safety & Health Administration

-agency of the US Dept of Labor

-signed by Nixon December 1970

-job safety and health standards

-Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

-organization of individuals from the private medical sector to develop and maintain standards of quality

-no official connection to government

-National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards

-Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute

-non profit organiztion that develops voluntary consensus standards

-Americans with Disabilities Act

-enacted by Congress in 1990

-prohibits discrimination

-Current Procedural Terminology

-numbers assigned to every task and service provided to a patient

-determines amount of reimbursement

-International Classification of Disease

-insurance code that describes medical condition or diagnosis

-Point of Care Testing

-lab testing performed in a clinical setting by non-laboratory healthcare professionals

-results are quicker, but more expensive

-Diagnosis Related Group

-classify hospital cases into one of approx 500 groups

-in use since 1983

-Health Care Financing Administration

-now Medicare & Medicaid

-American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science

-preeminent organization for CLS practitioners