Lab InfoTech Summit

Lab InfoTech Summit 2008
Laboratory Information Management

The fifth annual Lab InfoTech Summit will be held on April 9-11, 2008, at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada. Lab InfoTech Summit is a unique three-day conference designed for all clinical laboratory professionals, including pathologists, medical technologists LIS managers, and lab business managers. Health system executives, particularly those with responsibility for the clinical laboratories, will also find the conference to be valuable. Now approaching its fifth year in Las Vegas, Lab InfoTech Summit is a continuation of the AIMCL conference that was held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, at the University of Michigan Medical School for 21 years beginning in 1983. Click here to view a PDF file of the conference brochure. Another link to the conference brochure is provided in the left hand column of this home page as well as a link to on-line registration for the conference.

It is anticipated that about 44 exhibitors will participate in Lab InfoTech Summit 2008 including most of the major lab software vendors and most major in-vitro diagnostic companies with software products. Two pre-conference workshops will be offered, the first of which will focus on case studies relating to the use of middleware to increase lab efficiency and productivity. The second will address training and teaching issues in pathology informatics. The fifteen lectures in the plenary sessions by faculty of national prominence will highlight all of the current major initiatives in pathology informatics. To help you decide if you would like to attend Lab InfoTech Summit 2008, you can review all of the lectures presented at the 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 summits by clicking on the links to the left under Past Conferences.

Bruce Friedman, the director of Lab InfoTech Summit, has developed a blog devoted to clinical lab software, the clinical lab industry, and the entire healthcare industry called Lab Soft News. The link for this blog is www.LabSoftNews.com You may want to visit the blog or subscribe to it using RSS and a blog reader. The blog will also provide periodic announcements and updates about Lab InfoTech Summit.