Featured Webinar
Webinars 2024
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01 Jul 2024
Summer School 2024
Oswald Sonntag, Independent Consultant
Our three Summer School sessions comprise of on-demand webinars and supporting white papers, to help deepen your understanding of quality control practices in the clinical laboratory. Summer School has started... enjoy!
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23 Jan 2024
Enhancing Efficiency in Laboratory Medicine - A Focus on Quality Control Procedures
Oswald Sonntag, Independent Consultant
During this webinar, Oswald will present a comprehensive approach
to QC processes that integrates the principles of efficiency, costeffectiveness,
and sustainability.
Webinars 2023
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26 Sep 2023
Troubleshooting with Quality Control Data in Medical Laboratories for Beginners
Oswald Sonntag, Independent Consultant
This webinar explains how to identify problems and errors in the analytical process, and be shown how quality control material is a very helpful tool. You’ll also learn what steps are needed to make corrections and how to avoid reporting erroneous patient results, which will ultimately contribute to the welfare of patients.
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15 Jun 2023
Quality Control in Medical Laboratories for Beginners
Oswald Sonntag, Independent Consultant
This webinar explains the basic steps on how to proceed with quality control procedures in the daily routine. You will learn when and how quality control material should be used. What is the outcome of the measurement of a quality control product and what needs to be done if results are outside the limits.
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13 Apr 2023
A critical update on ISO15189: 2022 Edition
Professor Folker Spitzenberger M.D.R.A.
Learn about the latest developments in the standard ISO 15189:2022 “Medical laboratories - Requirements for quality and competence”. It has been developed with the objective of promoting the welfare of patients through confidence in the quality and competence of medical laboratories.
Webinars 2022
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21 Oct 2022
Control de calidad moderno: Descifrando los retos de hoy en día.
Marı́a Salinas, PhD Jefe se Servicio Análisis Clínicos hospital universitario de San Juan de Alicante.
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26 Jul 2022
Internal Quality Control Past Present and Future Trends
Sten Westgard, Prof. Khosrow Adeli and James H. Nichols, Ph.D., DABCC, FAACC
A panel of industry experts discussed global QC practice and future trends and developments.
This event took place on Tuesday, July 26 | 7:00AM - 8:30AM Marriott Marquis, Grand Lakes Ballroom A, Chicago IL.
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25 May 2022
A critical update on ISO15189
Professor Folker Spitzenberger M.D.R.A.
Through this webinar the participant will learn about the latest developments in the standard ISO/IEC 17025:2017 “General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories”. It has been developed with the objective of promoting the welfare of patients through confidence in the quality and competence of medical laboratories.
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29 Apr 2022
A practical review of Quality Measurement Tools for the IVD laboratory
Ger Kennedy, VP Informatics, Technopath Clinical Diagnostics
Technopath are proud to sponsor this free educational webinar, delivered by our very own Ger Kennedy and hosted by Select Science. LEARN MORE
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31 Mar 2022
A strategic review of biological variation resources supporting laboratory quality
Professor Sverre Sandberg, MD, PhD
Estimates of analytical, within-subject, and between-subject biological variation are extremely important for the interpretation of test results. The data is usually generated by prospective studies. An EFLM Task Group has developed an evidence based database containing data on biological variation as well as estimates of analytical performance specifications and reference change values. LEARN MORE
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21 Jan 2022
The concept of traceability and its impact to laboratory medicine
Prof. Mario Plebani
The concept of traceability in laboratory medicine usually concerns the analytical phase. In particular, traceability to a common reference, ideally up to the International System of Units [SI], ensures high quality and long-term equivalence of measurement results obtained by different measuring systems.
Webinars 2021
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10 Dec 2021
Harmonization - an important tool to improve patient safety in laboratory medicine
Prof. Mario Plebani
Despite monumental advances in quality improvement over the past few decades, clinical laboratories are still under increasing pressure to achieve efficiency, timeliness, safety, effectiveness and patient-centered services. LEARN MORE
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29 Oct 2021
Automating Six Sigma, MU and Reagent Tracking with IAMQC®
Ger Kennedy, VP Informatics, Technopath Clinical Diagnostics
Learn about generating QC reports in IAMQC®, including Six Sigma, MU, and Reagent Tracking. Learn more here.
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15 Oct 2021
Quality Control Revision: A refreshing course on advanced topics for quality control practice and applications
Prof Dr. med. Dipl. Biol. Astrid Petersmann
Quality controls are a helpful tool in method comparisons. Learn more here.
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01 Oct 2021
Quality Control Revision: A refreshing course on basics of quality control practice and applications
Prof Dr. med. Dipl. Biol. Astrid Petersmann
Internal quality controls play a key role in quality assurance of laboratory examinations. Learn more here.
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14 Sep 2021
Un-conventional QC: Implementing Appropriate QC Strategies in your Lab
Sten Westgard MS
Join us for a webinar to recalibrate your thinking on QC rules and runs, perhaps something you haven't done in like 10, 20, 30 years?!?! Watch on-demand here.
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24 Apr 2021
Westgard Rules at 40: A history, celebration and discussion
James Westgard Ph.D., FACB and Sten Westgard
In March 1981, the "Westgard Rules" were born. Join us for a discussion of the past, present, and future of multirule QC.
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16 Feb 2021
Quality Control of Qualitative Testing of SARS-CoV-2 in Clinical Laboratories
Wayne Dimech Executive Manager, Scientific and Business Relations at NRL, and Joe Vincini, Quality Control Services Manager at NRL, Australia.
This presentation will describe the differences between clinical chemistry testing and infectious disease serology. By understanding these differences, laboratory staff can better understand the causes of variation in the test system.
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16 Feb 2021
Challenges with Quality Control in Qualitative Testing
Paulo Pereira - Senior Researcher and head of R&D at the Portuguese Institute of Blood and Transplantation, Lisbon, Portugal
Qualitative examinations are those that measure the presence or absence of a substance. The results are not expressed in numerical terms, but in descriptive or qualitative terms such as “positive,” “negative,” “reactive,” “non-reactive,” “normal,” or “abnormal”. We will consider how Internal Quality Control is applied in this context.
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Webinars 2020
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11 Dec 2020
Solving Confusion with Regulations, QC Design, and Troubleshooting for SARS CoV-2 Assays
Sharon Ehrmeyer Ph.D., MT(ASCP) and Sten Westgard
Join us for a webinar to learn about quality control (QC) regulations, setting the proper QC strategy/design, and troubleshoot SARualitative tests in the laboratory.
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29 Nov 2020
Educational Webinar: The QC Standards, Past and Present: Novel Controversies and Old Struggles
Sten Westgard
In this lecture, Sten Westgard revisits “the argument and established rationale for Liquid Controls vs Lyophilised Controls, Linearities and figuring out the reportable range and more..
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19 Nov 2020
Measurement Uncertainty: do we exceed the (speed) limit?
Prof. Dr. med. Dipl. Biol. Astrid Petersmann
Measurement Uncertainty is a key element in laboratory medicine. We have learned to monitor quality of laboratory results using internal and external quality controls.
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29 Sep 2020
7 Things You Should Know about 6 Sigma Metrics
Prof. Sten Westgard
This one hour zoom with Professor Sten Westgard will introduce the concepts of Six Sigma, Sigma Metrics, and Westgard Sigma Rules.
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17 Sep 2020
Impact of the new European IVDR on medical laboratories and related stakeholders
Prof. Dr. Folker Spitzenberger M.D.R.A. Regulatory Affairs for Medical Devices Technical College Lübeck University
This webinar will give an overview on the changes and challenges derived from the IVDR with a special focus on medical laboratories.
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24 Sep 2020
Rili-BÄK 2019: Neue Anforderungen an das medizinische Labor
Prof. Dr. med. Matthias Nauck
Der Vorstand der Bundesärztekammer hat der überarbeiteten Version der Richtlinie zur Qualitätssicherung laboratoriumsmedizinischer Untersuchungen (Rili-BÄK) im Oktober 2019 zugestimmt. In der neuen Fassung wurden u. a. Weiterentwicklungen im Bereich des Qualitätsmanagements übernommen, neue Messgrößen aufgenommen und die Vorgaben für die Messgröße HbA1c angepasst
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16 Jul 2020
Maintaining laboratory quality standards in an emergency: A COVID-19 case study.
Wayne Dimech, Executive Manager of Business and Services for the NRL, and Sten Westgard, Director Client Services and Technology for Westgard QC
Watch this webinar to see Wayne Dimech and Sten Westgard assess the landscape for COVID-19 testing, consider the current methods, tests, protocols and the state of regulations.
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