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May, 2013 ( 10 )

• Welcome to the participants of the XXVIth International Symposium on Technological Innovations in Laboratory Hematology
• More than 700 registrants expected for the ISLH 2013 symposium. Walk-ins welcome.
• QMP–LS announces new Associate Director, OLA
• QMP–LS announces new Associate Director, EQA
• Notice to EQA Pathology participants - PATH-1305-IHC and PATHO-1305-SS postponed
• Notice to 2012 and 2013 EQA Cytology participants: CYTO-1305-PP Patterns-of-Practice survey
• Eye on OLA: Introducing Lynette Lewis – a new OLA team member
• QMP–LS is recruiting: Consultant Technologist, EQA – Chemistry/Hematology
• White Blood Cell Morphology Chart available from IQMH
• CLMA Workshop: The Toughest OLA Requirements – Solutions that work!

April, 2013 ( 9 )

• Be mindful of controlling access to QView™
• Eye on OLA: Feedback needed - Let’s collaborate to make Version 6.0 an even more valuable resource
• Notice to present and past Cytology EQA survey participants
• Join us in Toronto on May 9 for the ISLH 2013 symposium and QMP–LS/IQMH pre-meeting workshop!
• In Memoriam: Dr. Brian Rudrick
• Register today for Practice of Cytopathology – Recent Advances
• National Medical Laboratory Week 2013: April 28−May 4
• Mark your calendar: Anaerobe Bacteriology Workshop – May 9, 2013, Toronto
• CLMA Workshop: The Toughest OLA Requirements – Solutions that work!

March, 2013 ( 5 )

• OLA Reviewing all Requirements and Guidance Information in 2013 – Your Feedback Matters
• Eye on OLA: Medical laboratories in Newfoundland and Labrador successful in achieving accreditation
• Becoming a lean organization – celebrate success!
• XXVIth International Symposium on Technological Innovations in Laboratory Hematology and the QMP–LS Pre-meeting Workshop
• Register today for Practice of Cytopathology – Recent Advances

February, 2013 ( 7 )

• Call for QMP–LS Hematology Committee Nominations 2013
• Becoming a lean organization – the power of the people
• Eye on OLA: Listening and Learning ─ Tips on How to be a Better Assessor
• Maintain your 2013 OLA Assessor Certification
• ISLH 2013: QMP–LS Hematology Pre-meeting Workshop
• CLMA Webinar with QMP-LS: Keeping good company - Meeting the Toughest Laboratory Accreditation Requirements
• Save the Date: Practice of Cytopathology – Recent Advances

January, 2013 ( 11 )

• QMP−LS/OLA Recognized Internationally as an ISO 15189 Accreditation Body
• QMP–LS Announces its 2013–14 External Quality Assessment Program
• Call for QMP–LS Committee Nominations 2013
• Eye on OLA: Review of OLA References Completed in 2012
• QMP–LS Announces Changes to EQA Material Replacement Requests
• EQA Quantitative Survey Reports – Description of the New Reports
• Becoming a lean organization – Identifying the seven wastes
• Maintain your 2013 OLA Assessor Certification
• Employment Opportunities in the Medical Laboratories
• CLMA Webinar with QMP-LS: Keeping good company - Meeting the Toughest Laboratory Accreditation Requirements
• Save the Date: Practice of Cytopathology – Recent Advances

December, 2012 ( 8 )

• Becoming a lean organization – Utilizing the problem solving worksheet: next steps after the plan
• Eye on OLA: To Err is Human, to Admit the Error is Divine – OLA’s Error of Fact Submission Process
• Jane Gun-Munro to Retire as Director, External Quality Assessment
• Quantitative Survey Reports – New Reports for a New Year
• Maintain your 2013 OLA Assessor Certification
• Root-cause Workshop “Excellent opportunity for hands-on experience with DFIs”
• IQMH/QMP-LS to welcome first International Fellow in Laboratory Quality Management
• Office Closure

November, 2012 ( 8 )

• Becoming a lean organization – Utilizing the problem solving worksheet: What’s your plan?
• Eye on OLA: Accreditation Certificate Expiry and Reassessment Dates
• Call for Genetics Cases for EQA Genetics Testing Program's Image Bank
• HEMA-1211-PP and COAG-1211-PP Questionnaires on Quality Control Practices
• EQA Survey Cancellation: Digital Morphology
• Electrifying presentations at HRLMP/QMP–LS/IQMH Education Day: The Digital Laboratory: Today and Tomorrow
• Call for Abstracts: AMMI Canada – CACMID Annual Conference 2013 in Québec City
• Celebrate World Quality Month 2012

October, 2012 ( 6 )

• Becoming a lean organization – Utilizing the value stream map: Where’s the bottleneck?
• QMP–LS 2011 Annual Review Online
• Eye on OLA: Breaking News – OLA is not the Oracle!
• Staff changes in the QMP–LS External Quality Assessment (EQA) Division
• Register today for The Digital Laboratory: Today and Tomorrow
• Register today for OSCC 2012 Annual Scientific Meeting & IQMH/QMP-LS Root-cause Analysis Workshop

September, 2012 ( 11 )

• Becoming a lean organization – Back to the basics: project teams
• Eye on OLA: SOS for Internal Auditing and Management Reviews
• EQA Survey Cancellation: Digital Morphology
• Access to Decoding ISO 15189™ On-line Education Series for Licensed Lab Personnel of Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador
• HRLMP/QMP-LS/IQMH education day: The Digital Laboratory: Today and Tomorrow
• QMP-LS presents two posters at American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Annual Meeting 2012
• QMP-LS publishes Practitioner's Reports in Accreditation and Quality Assurance journal
• Recent Advances in Clinical Chemistry - Save the Date: November 7–8, 2012
• ISLH 2013: QMP–LS Hematology Pre-meeting Workshop
• Register today for Bédard Symposium
• CLMA Trillium Chapter Workshop: Project Management 101

August, 2012 ( 9 )

• Field Evaluation of a Grading Scheme for QMP–LS Interpretive Surveys
• Eye on OLA: The Value of Teamwork and QMP–LS
• Becoming a lean organization – Creating a visual workplace
• Elimination of hard-copy Survey Instructions - Pilot
• ISLH 2013: QMP–LS Hematology Pre-meeting Workshop
• Call for Volunteers: Small-method comparison study of creatinine values following IDMS standardization
• Save the Date: Workshop on Recent Advances in Clinical Chemistry
• Notice to Cytology EQA Survey Participants
• CLMA Trillium Chapter Workshop: Project Management 101

July, 2012 ( 4 )

• Eye on OLA: Results from OLA's 2012 Satisfaction Survey
• Becoming a lean organization – It’s a journey not a destination
• Save the Date: The Digital Laboratory Education Day – October 27
• QMP–LS EQA/PT Testing Surveys available through IQMH

June, 2012 ( 7 )

• Update on QMP–LS Accreditation and External Quality Assessment for Ontario Laboratories Licensed by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
• Eye on OLA: LABCON2012 in Gatineau, Québec – We'll be there
• QMP–LS is recruiting a part-time Consultant Technologist – Cytology/Genetics
• EQA publishes Practitioner's Report in Accreditation and Quality Assurance journal
• EQA division welcomes Berna Aslan as Program Consultant, EQA
• Accreditation: Supporting safe food and clean drinking water
• Consultations for Human Pathogens and Toxins Act Regulations

May, 2012 ( 6 )

• QMP–LS is recruiting a Consultant Technologist (EQA), Chemistry/Hematology
• Eye on OLA: OLA Expands its Staff
• Angela Situ joins OLA as Staff Technologist
• World Accreditation Day - June 9th 2012
• Red Blood Cell Morphology Kit available from IQMH
• CLMA Webinar - Manage with Data: Real-time Performance Measures

April, 2012 ( 7 )

• Antimicrobial Resistance in Common Hospital Pathogens in Ontario
• Eye on OLA: OLA Pre-Visit Questionnaire Gets Enhanced and Goes Electronic
• Your Feedback Matters! – Commencing OLA’s Annual Review of Requirement Reference Sources
• Review of Allowable Performance Limits for Quantitative Surveys
• CLMA Webinar - Manage with Data: Real-time Performance Measures
• National Medical Laboratory Week
• Register for CLMA Trillium Chapter Workshop: Coaching - The critical skill to enhance the performance of others

March, 2012 ( 6 )

• Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Ontario, 2008-2011
• Eye on OLA: Revisiting the Top 10 Non-Conformances in 150 Laboratories with Two OLA Assessment Visits
• Last chance! - OLA Assessor Face-to-Face Refresher Workshops
• Register for CLMA Trillium Chapter Workshop: Coaching - The critical skill to enhance the performance of others
• PT Surveys now available online
• CSMLS kicks off its campaign for National Medical Laboratory Week

February, 2012 ( 8 )

• Valuable Internal Auditing – Tips for success
• Eye on OLA: Going Green by Reducing Correspondence Sent by Mail and Increasing Use of QView™
• OLA launches its second participant satisfaction survey
• Call for QMP–LS Committee Members – 2012-13
• Joint Communique: Ontario Maternal Multiple Marker Screening Program
• IQMH Poster wins NACB Distinguished Abstract Award
• Register today: 2012 OLA Assessor Certification
• In Memoriam: Jackie Barten

January, 2012 ( 10 )

• QMP–LS Releases OLA Requirements Version 5.1, December 2011
• QMP–LS Announces its 2012–13 External Quality Assessment Program
• EQA Parameters Monitored in 2012/13
• Changes to Cytology EQA Proficiency Testing Program
• Staff Technologist, Ontario Laboratory Accreditation (Two full-time positions)
• Call for QMP–LS Committee Members – 2012-13
• Morphology Survey MORP-1201-SB Rescheduled
• Eye on OLA: Less is more – Effective 2012 QMP–LS accepts only electronic submissions from OLA-enrolled laboratories
• Elimination of Concise General Survey Report
• Register for the AMMI Canada – CACMID Annual Conference

December, 2011 ( 6 )

• Eye on OLA: Calling Bilingual Assessors! / Appel aux évaluateurs bilingues!
• Call for EQA Anatomic Pathology Committee nominations
• Quality in Pursuit of Truth Education Day
• QMP–LS welcomes new EQA Consultant Technologist
• Holiday Closure
• Red Blood Cell Morphology Kit Available

November, 2011 ( 6 )

• Eye on OLA: OLA to Discontinue Issuing 2-year Accreditation
• Education Day: Quality in Pursuit of Truth
• New Chemistry Guideline Available
• Change of Parameters Monitored effective January 2012
• QMP-LS & IQMH: New Location
• OSMT Election Results

October, 2011 ( 8 )

• Eye on OLA: Edit Ready Version of OLA Checklist 5.0 Now Available
• Performance Evaluation of Interpretive EQA Surveys
• EQA File Structure in QView™ Revised
• A New Distribution Centre for QMP-LS EQA Survey Material
• Quality in Pursuit of Truth Education Day
• 2010 Annual Review now available
• QMP-LS and IQMH: We're on the move
• Red Blood Cell Morphology Kit Available

September, 2011 ( 8 )

• Online External Quality Assessment (EQA) complaint and appeal forms now available on QView™
• Introduction of revised scoring scheme for External Quality Assessment (EQA) Genetics surveys
• Eye on OLA: An Update on Ontario Assessment Visits, Ontario Accreditation Certificates, and Conformance
• Quality in Pursuit of Truth Education Day
• Red Blood Cell Morphology Kit Available
• QMP–LS and IQMH: We’re on the move!
• Register for the September 2011 OSMT Conference - Connecting with Care
• CLMA Workshop: Problem Solving in Plain English

August, 2011 ( 8 )

• Eye on OLA - OLA Assessment History Report
• Red Blood Cell Morphology Kit Available
• Morphology and Bone Marrow Digital Morphology (DM) Surveys
• Job Opportunity: Consultant Technologist, External Quality Assessment (EQA)
• OLA Assessor Refresher Workshop: Shifting the Focus
• Register for the September 2011 OSMT Conference - Connecting with Care
• CLMA Trillium Chapter Workshop - Problem Solving in Plain English
• Join QMP–LS' EQA Program

July, 2011 ( 8 )

• Proficiency testing and alternative assessment procedures
• Eye on OLA: OLA to accredit medical laboratories in New Brunswick
• Red Blood Cell Morphology Kit makes it easier to identify abnormalities
• OLA Assessor Refresher Workshop: Shifting the Focus
• Register for OSMT Conference: Connecting with Care
• Blood Regulations to be based in part on the CAN/CSA-Z902-10 Blood Standard
• Need to advertise a job? Consider the QMP–LS Job Ad Posting Service
• Searching for previous QMP–LS newsletters

June, 2011 ( 3 )

• Introduction of EQA performance summary reports
• Eye on OLA: New pre-assessment documentation required from laboratories
• Event: Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) Laboratory Symposium

May, 2011 ( 7 )

• Correction to Eye on OLA: QMP–LS refines definition of a major non-conformance
• Celebrating National Medical Laboratory Week 2011
• Eye on OLA: QMP–LS refines definition of a major non-conformance
• Register now: CLMA event teaches how to simplify life at work
• Register for AACC Annual Spring Meeting
• Celebrate World Accreditation Day on June 9!
• We're listening to our readers

April, 2011 ( 6 )

• Eye on OLA - Clarification of OLA Requirement I.B.10 – Competency Assessments
• EQA Participant Satisfaction Survey summary now available on QView™
• Your feedback matters!
• Call for cytological slide cases
• Antimicrobial resistance in common hospital pathogens in Ontario
• QMP–LS website gets a new look