(CAP: Northfield, IL) -- Medical laboratories and health care organizations increasingly face the challenge of needing to do more with less. Yet, the expectation of continuous high quality patient care—which includes competitively priced fees—remains high. To help meet these expectations, the College of American Pathologists (CAP) now offers a series of interactive, online educational courses designed to help laboratories enhance their existing quality management systems. The courses currently available are the CAP “15189 Walkthrough” and the “QMS Implementation Roadmap.”

These CAP QMEd Online educational courses help establish quality as a strategic business initiative and a competitive advantage. Designed to help laboratories, organizations, and health care professionals better understand how to plan and resource quality management systems, these course offerings focus on improved patient care along with error prevention, risk reduction, and cost control.

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