Thought Leadership

  Future Role of the Clinical Lab in Population Health Published inPopulation Health ManagementAugust, 2021 Authors: Khosrow R. Shotorbani, Kathleen M. Swanson, and Beth Bailey Background The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated how today’s health care environment and current delivery models are ill-equipped to address community health and public safety. Through the process of “test, trace,…

Priming the Clinical Laboratory for Population Health How a grassroots movement is positioning the laboratory at the forefront of healthcare Khosrow Shotorbani, Jeremy Orr, Keren Landsman | 05/13/2020 | “With an increasingly global society – not to mention a growing pandemic – the idea of population health is at the forefront of many medical minds. But who…

Listen to this podcast where Khosrow Shotorbani, President/Executive Director of Project Santa Fe Foundation and CEO/Founder of the Lab 2.0 Strategic Services, discusses with David Johnson, CEO, 4sight Health, the Clinical Lab 2.0 movement and its impact on defining the future economic valuation and placement of diagnostic services. The Podcast discusses: The relevant quantitative value…

Integrating Social Determinants of Health and Laboratory Data: A Pilot Study To Evaluate Co-Use of Opioids and Benzodiazepines Jill S. Warrington, MD, PhD1,2, Nick Lovejoy, BS, MPH3 , Jamie Brandon, BA1 , Keith Lavoie, BS1 , and Chris Powell, BA1 Abstract As the opioid crisis continues to have devastating consequences for our communities, families, and…

Kendal J. Jensen, MD, PhD; Robert Stallone, BA; Michael Eller, MBA; Joseph Castagnaro, MBA; Hannah Poczter, MS, MBA; Richard Tesoriero, MBA; Jeanne Balzano-Kane, MS; Cari Gusman, BS; Tawfiqul Bhuiya, MD; Dwayne Breining, MD; James M. Crawford, MD, PhD Northwell Health Laboratories were established in 1997, serving the Northwell Health system. In 2008, the health system considered minority entry into a joint venture with a commercial laboratory. Based on arguments made by Northwell laboratory leadership,…

Published by: As healthcare payment and reimbursement begin to shift from a fee-for-service to a value-based model, ancillary providers including laboratories must incorporate this into their business strategy. Laboratory medicine, while continuing to support a transactional business model, should expand efforts to include translational data analytics, proving its clinical and economic valuation. Current literature in…

Published by: NEW YORK (360Dx) – A project launched a year ago to improve laboratory-based patient care aims to move to the next step in November by introducing health system-based laboratories to clinical initiatives intended not only to improve patient care, but to help labs begin to carve out new roles within their health systems.…

Improving American Healthcare Through “Clinical Lab 2.0”: A Project Santa Fe Report James M. Crawford, MD, PhD, Khosrow Shotorbani, MBA, MT(ASCP), Gaurav Sharma, MD, Michael Crossey, MD, PhD, Tarush Kothari, MD, MPH, Thomas S. Lorey, MD, Jeffrey W. Prichard, DO, Myra Wilkerson, MD, and Nancy Fisher, MBA | 02/04/2017 | “Project Santa Fe was established…