Unifying for Something Greater

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.

• Foreword; Mario PlebaniChapter 1. A Transformative Book; Federico LegaChapter 2. The Hidden Engine of Value: Repositioning Laboratory Medicine as a Catalyst for High-Performance Organizations and LaboratoriesEngineering Laboratories from Reactive Confirmation to Proactive Prediction; Khosrow Shotorbani and Kathleen SwansonFrom Cinderella to Catalyst: Elevating Laboratory Medicine in High-Performing Health Systems; Craig Ivany and John SprouleLaboratory Intrapreneurship: How Laboratory Leaders Reclaim Clinical Leadership in Multidisciplinary Care; Fawn LopezQI Meets AI – Implications and Opportunities for Laboratory Medicine; Paul L. EpnerInvesting in the Workforce is the Solution for Building High-Performing Organizations; Stephanie MercadoChapter 3. Laboratories as Innovation-Platforms within Healthcare Systems: Learning from the UNIVANTS Excellences; Elena MaggioniChapter 4. Good Practices from UNIVANTS: Translating Laboratory Innovation into System-Level ValueEnhancing Personalized Care for Heart Failure Patients: A Risk-Scoring EMR Model; Jason Guichard, Stephanie Flippin, and Sandi StoudenmireThe 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 KurosakiUtilizing 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 DahnImproving Prenatal Outcomes through Laboratory-Driven Models for Clinical and Quality Excellence: A Healthcare Community Roadmap; Monique Dodd, Mark Koenig, and Karissa CulbreathImproving the Safety of Mothers and Babies using Angiogenic Biomarkers for Pre-Eclampsia; Tim James, Sofia Cerdeira, and Manu VatishSustained 97% Opt-Out HIV Testing in the Emergency Department: Getting to Zero AIDS; Ian CormackThe Kaiser Permanente Sure Net Program and High LDL Sure Net Program; Michael H. KanterIncreased Safety and Improved Length of Stay for Patients with Suspected Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Emergency Department; María Cecilia Martín Fernández de BasoaTBI Strategies: Expediting Patient Flow and Reducing Length of Stay through Blood Biomarker Guided Management of Patients with Suspected Mild Traumatic Brain Injury; Vincent SapinFiix Prothrombin Time: A Precision Innovation in Warfarin Monitoring; Pall T. OnundarsonEarly Detection of Metabolic-Dysfunction Associated Steatotic Liver Disease using FIB-4; Yoke Lee LowAppendix. The Rigor for Recognition with the UNIVANTS of Healthcare Excellence Program; Melissa RyanPostface. A Purpose-led Pathway to Health and Unity; Patricia Ravalico