The Lab Must Go On

Course overview

Short Description: Clinical laboratories face immense challenges with the COVID-19 pandemic. While support for COVID-19 testing has been an essential focus of the coordinated clinical laboratory response, the pandemic influences laboratory operations in numerous ways that challenge the traditional concepts of laboratory management. In this webinar, ARUP Chief Operations Officer Jonathan Genzen, MD, PhD, details the challenges, setbacks, successes, and opportunities for development throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to consider as laboratories move forward. Objectives: 1. Identify the challenges of clinical laboratories during the COVID-19 pandemic. 2. Examine traditional laboratory management concepts and evaluate how they are or are not applicable during a pandemic. 3. Propose alternative strategies to accommodate dramatic and selective increases in test volumes during pandemics. 4. Describe solutions that support maintaining an intact clinical laboratory workforce, and the overall critical mission, during times of crisis