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View the Winter 2019 issue of the LabLink newsletter: Influenza and respiratory virus testing 2019 Laboratory Satisfaction Survey results Laboratory Service to Home-Bound Patients Short-lived specimens    

By Donna Loyle, communications specialist, LIMR Researchers are testing a combination of chemotherapy with or without the immunotherapy drug Tecentriq® (atezolizumab) in treating patients with stage 3 colon cancer and deficient DNA mismatch repair. There are two study arms to … Continue reading →

To prepare Main Line Health for the deployment of Windows 10, an IT initiative is underway to implement an enterprise image viewer platform (eUnity) which will provide the enterprise with a single image viewing solution for both radiology and cardiology. … Continue reading →

On December 2, 2019 beginning at 6:30am, Main Line Health is changing software for event reporting. STARS will be sunsetted and replaced with RL Risk. The new program, RL Risk, will be available on MLH computers under this desktop icon. … Continue reading →

To prepare Main Line Health for the deployment of Windows 10, an IT initiative is underway to implement an enterprise image viewer platform (eUnity) which will provide the System with a single image viewing solution for both radiology and cardiology. … Continue reading →

The Main Line Health 2019-2020 mandatory flu vaccination program is underway for employees, physicians, specified healthcare professionals and volunteers. Since 2010, MLH policy has required all physicians, specified health professionals, employees, contracted clinical personnel and volunteers to be vaccinated against influenza … Continue reading →

As per the Medical Staff Bylaws, the following proposed changes to the Medical Staff Rules and Regulations are being communicated to the Medical Staff prior to the Medical Executive Committee voting on the changes at their December 16, 2019 meeting. … Continue reading →

By Nicholas Francis, Creative Services Thomas Oliver, DO, chief medical resident and hospitalist, Lankenau Medical Center, won in “Health by Zip Code” category earlier this month at the 2019 Jefferson Health Hack. Dr. Oliver and his team proposed the creation … Continue reading →

By Donna Loyle, communications specialist, LIMR  The Edwards Cardioband™ tricuspid valve reconstruction system is being evaluated in an early feasibility study to treat patients with tricuspid regurgitation (TR). Data collected in this prospective, single-arm, multicenter device trial include safety, effectiveness … Continue reading →

African American women younger than 50 years old and who were diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) had markedly higher rates of hyperlipidemia, hypertension, acute renal failure and type 2 diabetes than their white female counterparts, noted the authors of … Continue reading →