title: Clinical laboratory analytics: Challenges and promise for an emerging discipline.
abstract: The clinical laboratory is a major source of health care data. Increasingly these data are being integrated with other data to inform health system-wide actions meant to improve diagnostic test utilization, service efficiency, and "meaningful use." The Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists hosted a satellite meeting on clinical laboratory analytics in conjunction with their annual meeting on May 29, 2014 in San Francisco. There were 80 registrants for the clinical laboratory analytics meeting. The meeting featured short presentations on current trends in clinical laboratory analytics and several panel discussions on data science in laboratory medicine, laboratory data and its role in the larger healthcare system, integrating laboratory analytics, and data sharing for collaborative analytics. One main goal of meeting was to have an open forum of leaders that work with the "big data" clinical laboratories produce. This article summarizes the proceedings of the meeting and content discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA.
authors.forename: Brian H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Shirts
authors.affiliation: ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA ; Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
authors.forename: Brian R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA.
authors.forename: Geoffrey S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Baird
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA ; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Jason M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Baron
authors.affiliation: University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA.
authors.forename: Bryan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Clements
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA ; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, USA.
authors.forename: Ricky
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Grisson
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA.
authors.forename: Ronald George
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Hauser
authors.affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
authors.forename: Julie R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Terrazas
authors.affiliation: University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA.
authors.forename: Brad
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Brimhall
keywords: Big data; clinical laboratory; clinical pathology; data analysis; information processing; utilization management