The ideas and strategies for closing the gap on
our future vision are:
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Build a consolidated international front to catalyze
the movement |
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Identify a ‘champion(s) for the higher calling |
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Live the higher calling of patient care and the
common good |
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Communicate the Vision (“One World Lab”),
Sell the Vision and Enroll New Partners |
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“Seek first to understand” the interests
of all stakeholders, how does our global vision meet those interests |
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Agree that there is a base level of standards
that all labs can meet and that we can develop guidelines for
translation of those standards for application to differences
in technology, social and cultural needs (“tiered system”) |
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Recognize that we already have high individual
energy and activity around individual organizational mission
and goals, what’s missing is high collective energy and
activity around a shared vision and goals |
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Push-Pull strategy: Build awareness to the need
and enroll in a compelling vision |
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Develop measures of success |
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Support demonstration projects |
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Moved beyond the barrier of the “proprietary
mindset” be creative in honoring contributions made and
move ahead |
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Build awareness in the physician community to
the importance of lab medicine (labs are an essential sub-system) |
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Include young scientists and academics in the
vision |
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Share the story of why we must achieve our vision
– the burning platform for change; connect stakeholders
in a way that ties lab medicine to a healthier people |
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Raise the self-esteem of medical technologists |
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Encourage collaboration and partnership |
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Prepare resolution to the General Assembly |
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Begin to crystallize the story about how lab medicine is integrated
into the entire/whole healthcare system (move from disease-specific
planning and funding of programs to a whole systems approach) |
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Enlist clinical partners |
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Develop a marketing package for moving our message out |
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Develop a clearinghouse of best approaches |
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Agree on base standards that all laboratories can meet and
using a tiered approach |
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Increase the visibility of laboratory medicine with World
Health Organization and others (Theme: “Labs in Crisis”) |
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Never again view government as “only a funding source”
or leave the “sole leadership” of laboratory quality
to the government |
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Organize around a shared vision for laboratory quality and
set aside low level squabbles that get in the our way of our
vision |
