The Time is Nigh - An Actionable Timeline for IQCP

Implementation
Date: Thursday, December

10th , 2015 || Time: 01:00 PM EDT | 10:00 AM PST

Duration: 60 Minutes || Course Level: Intermediate

'Live' Webinar by Maria

Stevens Hardy

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Overview
With only days left in 2015, the IQCP Transition and Education period ends on December
31, 2015! From January 1, 2014 January 1, 2016 there is an Education and Training
Period for laboratories to learn about the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS) new Individualized Quality Control Plan (IQCP) Interpretive Guidelines, identify
resources available and begin the implementation process.
Lab Directors across the country should be creating an Action Item Timeline for
implementing IQCP if they are transitioning away from Equivalent Quality Control (EQC).
The process for creating an IQCP should include time for learning about the
requirements of IQCP prior to implementation. The goal of this webinar is to demonstrate
an actionable timeline that is based on a daily interval so that laboratories can plan
accordingly and set tangible deadlines for internal compliance.
Why should you attend?
Clinical Laboratory services who have performed Equivalent Quality Control for their
laboratories must now either do IQCP transition or show justification that the
manufacturers minimum QC requirement is acceptable for risk management and risk
mitigation to reduce risk of harm to the patient.
Those laboratories who may have been performing the manufacturers minimum of two
levels of QC per day of testing may see the value in transitioning to IQCP as a means to
reduce risk of harm to the patient.
This webinar will explain who benefits from IQCP, what documentation is needed for
compliance, and if a laboratory choses to only perform the manufacturers minimum of
two levels of testing per day what supporting documentation may be helpful in ensuring
regulatory compliance.

Areas covered in the webinar

A realistic timeline for creating an IQCP before or after the January 1, 2016
deadline.
Identifying areas of risk mitigation for laboratory testing
Demonstrate an actionable timeline that is based on a daily interval so that
laboratories can plan accordingly and set tangible deadlines for internal compliance
Learning objective
Define the three components of IQCP (Risk Assessment, Quality Control Plan and
Quality Assessment)
Identify key tasks that are crucial to the creation and implementation of the IQCP
Create an action based timeline for IQCP Implementation by the January 1, 2016
deadline.
Who will benefit

Physician Office Laboratories

Laboratory Directors
Laboratory Managers
Quality Assurance Departments
Risk Management Officers
Laboratory Accrediting Organizations
POCT Testing Groups
ASCP, AACC, AMT, ASCLS, CLSI, Advance, MLO, CLP, POR CMS, CAP, Joint
Commission, COLA, A2LA, Accredited Laboratories

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