Unifying for Something Greater
How laboratory medicine is driving and enabling healthcare transformation
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Building upon six years of insights from the global UNIVANTS of Healthcare Excellence program, Unifying for Something Greater: How laboratory medicine is driving and enabling healthcare transformation explores how laboratory medicine can transform healthcare delivery into measurably better outcomes for patient, payors, clinicians and entire health systems.
With contributions across six award cycles and 96 documented best practices from five continents, this edited volume examines how clinical laboratories in diverse settings have redefined governance, operations, and organizational models to meet the demands of value-based care. Using real-life examples, the book connects measurable outcomes—improved patient health, enhanced clinician confidence, sustainable cost models—through best practices that span broader trends such as co-creation of care, clinical service lines, and task shifting. From cardiovascular risk detection in primary care to implementation of novel biomarkers, the examples offer actionable lessons for laboratory leaders, hospital executives, and health system managers seeking to navigate the “new normal” of healthcare.
An invaluable addition to the European Health Management in Transition book series, this volume is an essential read for anyone committed to advancing predictive, preventive, and personalized medicine through the transformative power of laboratory services.
Foreword; Mario Plebani
- Chapter 1. A Transformative Book; Federico Lega
- Chapter 2. The Hidden Engine of Value: Repositioning Laboratory Medicine as a Catalyst for High-Performance Organizations and Laboratories
- Engineering Laboratories from Reactive Confirmation to Proactive Prediction; Khosrow Shotorbani and Kathleen Swanson
- From Cinderella to Catalyst: Elevating Laboratory Medicine in High-Performing Health Systems; Craig Ivany and John Sproule
- Laboratory Intrapreneurship: How Laboratory Leaders Reclaim Clinical Leadership in Multidisciplinary Care; Fawn Lopez
- QI Meets AI – Implications and Opportunities for Laboratory Medicine; Paul L. Epner
- Investing in the Workforce is the Solution for Building High-Performing Organizations; Stephanie Mercado
- Chapter 3. Laboratories as Innovation-Platforms within Healthcare Systems: Learning from the UNIVANTS Excellences; Elena Maggioni
- Chapter 4. Good Practices from UNIVANTS: Translating Laboratory Innovation into System-Level Value
- Enhancing Personalized Care for Heart Failure Patients: A Risk-Scoring EMR Model; Jason Guichard, Stephanie Flippin, and Sandi Stoudenmire
- The Pathway to HCV Elimination: Multidisciplinary Team Effort for Improved Identification, Diagnosis and Treatment of HCV Positive Patients; Nobuharu Tamaki, Maki Furuya, Marina Muneyama, Noriko Kubota, and Masayuki Kurosaki
- Utilizing an Innovative Approach to Process Improvement in the Era of a Global Pandemic and the Great Resignation: Rapidly Improving Timeliness of Laboratory Test Results for Multidisciplinary Rounds in an Acute Care Setting; Teri Dahn
- Improving Prenatal Outcomes through Laboratory-Driven Models for Clinical and Quality Excellence: A Healthcare Community Roadmap; Monique Dodd, Mark Koenig, and Karissa Culbreath
- Improving the Safety of Mothers and Babies using Angiogenic Biomarkers for Pre-Eclampsia; Tim James, Sofia Cerdeira, and Manu Vatish
- Sustained 97% Opt-Out HIV Testing in the Emergency Department: Getting to Zero AIDS; Ian Cormack
- The Kaiser Permanente Sure Net Program and High LDL Sure Net Program; Michael H. Kanter
- Increased Safety and Improved Length of Stay for Patients with Suspected Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Emergency Department; María Cecilia Martín Fernández de Basoa
- TBI Strategies: Expediting Patient Flow and Reducing Length of Stay through Blood Biomarker Guided Management of Patients with Suspected Mild Traumatic Brain Injury; Vincent Sapin
- Fiix Prothrombin Time: A Precision Innovation in Warfarin Monitoring; Pall T. Onundarson
- Early Detection of Metabolic-Dysfunction Associated Steatotic Liver Disease using FIB-4; Yoke Lee Low
- Appendix. The Rigor for Recognition with the UNIVANTS of Healthcare Excellence Program; Melissa Ryan
- Postface. A Purpose-led Pathway to Health and Unity; Patricia Ravalico
Federico Lega, Ph.D, is full professor of health administration at Public Health Department at the University of Milan (Italy) and leads the Research Centre in Health Administration (HEAD).He also serves as advisor of local health authorities in Italy, health departments of Regions, national health agencies, and has worked as consultant for the WHO. He's the President of the European Healthcare Management Association (EHMA), and chair of its scientific advisory committee.
Elena Maggioni is a PhD candidate in Management at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and holds a master's degree in healthcare management from the University of Milan. Formerly a research fellow at the Health Administration Research and Advanced Training Center at the University of Milan, she has concentrated her research on socio-healthcare integration and the creation of multidisciplinary and multiprofessional networks.
Patricia Ravalico is Director of Global Scientific Leadership and Education for Abbott. She is also the executive lead of the UNIVANTS of Healthcare Excellence Program, a prestigious global award program that was developed to recognize, amplify and inspire best practices in healthcare transformation.