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Navigating your Lab Results with Improved Awareness in Clinical Laboratory Medicine

Healthcare today has become one of the most discussed issues which have forced consumers to take a closer look at their health and how their personal health is being managed. An area of healthcare that is often overlooked is the laboratory testing that occurs annually or routinely during the annual or semiannual health check-up with their personal physician. Most consumers understand very little about the results they get back from the laboratory and rely heavily on the physician to interpret their lab results.

www.Labtestportal.com is a fresh new resource that will educate consumers with clinical laboratory testing. Labtestportal.com provides a wealth of resources to better understand the clinical laboratory testing world and what is more important, Labtestportal.com provides a glossary of commonly prescribed laboratory tests. The ?Lab Test Interpretation? section is a rich database of commonly ordered tests which provides you with a description of the test as well as normal reference ranges and a better understanding of what abnormal results could be. www.Labtestportal.com also provides the consumer with extra resources to use a research tools to better serve their personal health. ?Lab Testing Services? provides a listing of reference laboratories throughout North America as well as websites that can be used as references when further researching data for their healthcare needs.

Healthcare Professionals who are running their own laboratory practice can use www.Labtestportal.com as a rich resource to better run their Physicians Office Laboratory (POL), Reference Laboratory or Hospital Laboratory. There are rich resources which lab managers can use to investigate lab suppliers and chemical reagent manufacturers. Most lab managers are not aware of the alternative reagent vendors that can provide them with the chemicals to run their Chemistry, Special Chemistry, Hematology, Urinalysis, Coagulation and Immunology assays. They can save thousands of dollars annually by shopping around for chemicals. This is very similar to the pharmaceutical industry. You have name brand drugs and you have generic drugs. In the clinical laboratory you can have name brand chemical reagents as well as generic chemical reagents. These managers can also provide the same cost savings to their practice by evaluating laboratory consumable vendors.

Future lab technicians can also use the site as a reference under the ?Medical Technology? section to research schools to attend to earn a Bachelors of Science in Medical and Research Technology. The Medical Technology profession can sometimes be overlooked. It?s a highly compensated profession which rewards those who perform exceptionally. The information they provide doctors accounts for over 75% of the data required to convey an accurate diagnosis. The work that medical technologists perform is critical and invaluable.

The technology which runs these practices is very critical. The Laboratory Information System (LIS) is a very important piece of technology that laboratory needs to have in order to run a safe, secure and efficient operation. www.Labtestportal.com provides a section ?LIS? which evaluates these data management systems. Choosing the right system within your budget is significant. Electronic Medical Records systems (EMR) are also very important purchases and the integration of the EMR with the LIS is a very important project. When choosing an integration path, it?s important to know the pitfalls of integration. www.Labtestportal.com provides an overview of industry respected EMR?s as well as a project management toolkit to use when adventuring into the data integration world. Integrating the LIS and EMR will vastly improve the efficiency of a laboratory practice.

Most Laboratory Scientist?s don?t have an outlet to keep abreast of current news in the clinical laboratory which www.Labtestportal.com now provides. It?s important for the laboratory professional to stay in tuned with recent research and breaking news that impacts their lives and laboratory practices. The articles are relevant and provide continuing education which is required by the laboratory science profession. The ?Professional Resources? section at Labtestportal.com provides a comprehensive list of Professional Laboratory Organizations that a laboratory scientist can participate in.

The mantra of LabTestPortal.com is that they are a dedicated resource for consumers and healthcare professionals. The information provided on this portal will help you better understand clinical laboratory medicine and also provide resources to healthcare professionals to better serve their patient population.