Six years of progress - highlights from the IFCC Emerging Technologies Division

Ronda F Greaves^{1

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3}, Damien Gruson^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Victorian Clinical Genetics Services, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
² Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
³ Division on Emerging Technologies of the International Federation of Laboratory Medicine (IFCC), Milan, Italy.
⁴ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Cliniques Universitaires St-Luc and Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
⁵ Pôle de recherche en Endocrinologie, Diabète et Nutrition, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, Cliniques Universitaires St-Luc and UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium.

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Ronda F Greaves et al. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2024.

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. 2024 Aug 14;62(10):1877-1879.

doi: 10.1515/cclm-2024-0922. Print 2024 Sep 25.

Ronda F Greaves^{1

2

3}, Damien Gruson^{3

4

5}

¹ Victorian Clinical Genetics Services, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
² Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
³ Division on Emerging Technologies of the International Federation of Laboratory Medicine (IFCC), Milan, Italy.
⁴ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Cliniques Universitaires St-Luc and Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
⁵ Pôle de recherche en Endocrinologie, Diabète et Nutrition, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, Cliniques Universitaires St-Luc and UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium.

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Keywords: clinical need; continuous improvement; implementation processes; laboratory medicine; technology readiness.

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