Title

Hospital In-House Laboratories: Examining The External Environment

Keywords

Environmental scan; Health care policy; Laboratories

Abstract

As hospitals fight for their portion of reimbursed health care expenditures, it will become increasingly necessary to investigate alternative funding mechanisms. In-house laboratories, which have likely been seen in the past as pure cost centers, can be repositioned to provide additional revenue to hospitals. This opportunity for in-house laboratories to be remade into profit centers is predicated upon a thorough understanding of the environmental factors affecting hospital laboratories. This article examines 4 distinct environmental factors: demographic and socioeconomic trends, reimbursement and financing, government policy, and clinical events. Each of these external environmental factors provides 2 broad sources of interest to hospitals and their in-house laboratory components: opportunities on which to capitalize and hazards against which to defend. Copyright © 2010 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Publication Date

1-1-2010

Publication Title

Health Care Manager

Volume

29

Issue

1

Number of Pages

4-10

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1097/HCM.0b013e3181cd8a94

Socpus ID

76849099636 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/76849099636

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