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	June 9, 2016	Avoiding Financial Waste: UM Strategies in the Pre- and Post-Analytic Stages A recent study showed that an estimated 30% of all laboratory tests run across the healthcare continuum were unnecessary. That means roughly 2.1 billion unnecessary lab tests are performed each year.
	May 27, 2016	Preventing Childhood Deaths from Infectious Diseases: ARUP Scientist Awarded Gates Foundation Grant ARUP Laboratories Medical Director Robert Schlaberg, MD, Dr Med, MPH, will be the Principal Investigator for a project to help decrease the high mortality rate of children with infectious diseases.
	May 26, 2016	Changing How Infectious Diseases Are Diagnosed with New Metagenomics Pathogen Detection Tool Dr. Robert Schlaberg co-developed Taxonomer, a new kind of pathogen identification tool driven by sophisticated genomic analysis and advanced computational methodologies. This web-based technology quickly and accurately reveals all pathogens in a patient sample.
	May 17, 2016	Utilization Management in Next Era of Healthcare Nudging Doctors Toward Evidence-Based Laboratory Testing Doctors need easy access to testing guidance, nudges toward evidence-based testing, and professional feedback when they deviate from recommended patterns.
	May 9, 2016	Walk the Talk: ARUP Provides (Free) Education Worldwide Diagnostic testing isn’t the only service ARUP provides worldwide; it has built a growing educational resource, specifically designed for students in the medical laboratory sciences.
	May 3, 2016	ARUP’s Annual Technology Fair Spotlights New Inventions “It’s satisfying building something like this because it allows me to help someone do their job better and, usually, make their job more enjoyable,” says engineer Darby Nelson, who presented with fellow engineer Chris Semrow at ARUP’s annual Technology Fair, where ARUP-incubated innovations are shared. The engineers are part of ARUP’s Automation Team and collaborated to create a thaw box and test-tube capper to meet the needs they observed in ARUP’s labs.