Improving American Healthcare Through "Clinical Lab 2.0": A Project Santa Fe Report.

ABSTRACT: Project Santa Fe was established both to provide thought leadership and to help develop the evidence base for the valuation of clinical laboratory services in the next era of American healthcare. The participants in Project Santa Fe represent major regional health systems that can operationalize laboratory-driven innovations and test their valuation in diverse regional marketplaces in the United States. We provide recommendations from the inaugural March 2016 meeting of Project Santa Fe. Specifically, in the transition from volume-based to value-based health care, clinical laboratories are called upon to provide programmatic leadership in reducing total cost of care through optimization of time-to-diagnosis and time-to-effective therapeutics, optimization of care coordination, and programm

SUBMITTER: Crawford JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5497901 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature