CALL FOR REVISION TO THE ACADEMY'S MONOGRAPH ON
THYROID DISEASE
In cooperation with the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry
the American Thyroid Asociation is spearheading an intersociety
and international effort to update the Academy's monograph "Standards
of Laboratory Practice: Laboratory Support for the Diagnosis &
Monitoring of Thyroid Disease" in the coming year. The goal is
to have a new version finalized by June, 2000. The leaders of
this project plan to distribute this new version at the International
Thyroid Symposium to be held in Kyoto, Japan in October, 2000.
Informatics Meeting Notice and Call
for Abstracts
Over the past several years the Academy has sponsored several
meetings with the aim of exploring the leading edge concepts of
Point-of-Care testing. In this tradition, the NACB is planning
a Year 2000 symposium, entitled "Laboratory and the Electronic
Medical Record - Issues and Opportunities". The two day meeting
is being designed to identify and discuss critical issues of the
integration of laboratory information systems with requisite data
archiving to the Electronic Medical (or Health) Record (EMR or
EHR). Several organizations are cooperating to co-sponsor this
conference including the Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards
(NCCLS), the Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA),
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the
Philadelphia Section of the American Society for Microbiology
(ASM). The conference will again be held in Philadelphia, on September
15th and 16th 2000.
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