Laboratory Risk Assessment

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http://pathology.jhu.edu/department/staff/cqi/files/SafetyRiskAssessmentInstructions.pdf
This online Johns Hopkins clinical laboratory policy manual describe the effective strategies for a safe working environment for its employees. This policy mainly talk about the internal risk assessment factors associated with its affiliated laboratories within the healthcare system. There are different kinds of tools that are listed in this policy that are necessary to performs to maintain risk free assessments. To provide deep information to its employee, management and its affiliate laboratories this policy clearly provide the definition of various risk assessment related words like hazard, risk and risk assessment. Similarly this policy manual also describe the five important clinical laboratory risk assessment steps that should be followed in case of any types of laboratories violation happen to its health care system. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4071183/ This article was pubic by US National Library of Medicine that describe
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This news provide a result of a network glitch that down the electronic medical record of three different hospital of Florida health care system. During two days of IT network failure three hospital and other nine health care facilities experience downtime and their healthcare system epic EMR failure. During this period of time health care provider were not able to see their patient lab results on time. Instead of ordering the tests on the hospital information system all the provider requisition were submitted through the paper. This cause delay in test results, manual errors, misunderstanding between health care provider and lab technicians and affects the turnaround time of the clinical laboratories. During that time these hospital loose about $80 million and a big question about the service provided during that