Executive War College 2025: Help us Celebrate Our 30th Year
The Ultimate Event for Helping Solve Your Diagnostics, Clinical Lab and Pathology Management Challenges
2025 will be yet another critically important year for the clinical lab and pathology world and you need to be prepared for what lies ahead. Attend Executive War College 2025 to get access to all the thought leaders, experts, and analysis you need to develop the right strategies for your lab.
Mark your calendars for the 30th annual Executive War College on April 29–30, 2025, in New Orleans. Sign up now to lock in the biggest registration discounts!
Check back to this site in the coming months to get details on our agenda for 2025, which will cover leading edge topics designed to help you manage your lab or pathology practice more effectively!
One transformative force in healthcare and laboratory medicine will be front and center this year. It is artificial intelligence (AI), soon to be incorporated into every instrument and software offered by vendors to clinical labs and pathology groups! Special sessions will help you learn what’s working with AI today, what’s coming next, and the best AI bets your lab can make to improve clinical services and financial performance.
Related to the swift advances in artificial intelligence is the equally powerful trend of “big data in healthcare.” Advances in information technologies make it possible to assemble ever-larger pools of data, analyze that data, and generate actionable intelligence. In fact, The Dark Report recently predicted that “Soon, the primary objective of a laboratory—and a source of increased reimbursement—will be the lab’s ability to deliver knowledge and clinical intelligence.”
Given that more sophisticated use of lab test data will be a key to unlocking new sources of revenue for clinical labs and pathology groups, the 2025 Executive War College will feature numerous sessions by first-mover and early-adopter labs. They will share their successes at improving patient outcomes and winning new reimbursement arrangements with payers because of the novel ways they pool different data sets and help referring physicians to deliver better patient care.
Swift advances in genetic testing and whole genome sequencing will be another major theme this year. In the march to precision medicine, it is labs that will lead the way because they are producing the genetic, proteomic, and other “omic” data used by physicians to diagnose patients and identify the best treatments. You’ll hear presentations by labs at the leading edge of this trends.
Continuing acute shortages of lab staff and the need to better control costs will get full attention during the 2025 Executive War College. Other sessions will address changes in lab compliance, new opportunities in managed care contracting, innovations in coding/billing/collections, and what’s new with Lean Six Sigma and ISO 151895
Insights from Industry Leaders on Why You Should Attend!
Over three decades, Executive War College has become THE essential, must-go-to conference for obtaining information designed to solve the latest challenges in diagnostics, clinical lab and pathology management.
Need testament to that statement? Well, in 2024, a record 1019 attendees came to New Orleans for EWC 2024 and left after giving the event a 97% approval rating.
It’s you, our EWC community, that make this event so special, and we are grateful for the insight and energy you bring to it every year.
Executive War College 2025 will give you access to all the thought leaders, experts, and analysts you need to develop the right strategies for your lab.
Stay tuned to this site for updates as new session topics and speakers are confirmed. We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans!
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Everything That’s New & Important for Clinical Laboratories in 2025! Expect the New Year to bring important changes to the diagnostics marketplace. Clinical labs, pathology groups, and genetic testing companies can expect a wild ride as 2025 unfolds.
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Why You Can’t Miss Attending EWC 2025
- “EWC is the greatest goldmine of easy to implement, practical solutions for the modern laboratory.”
- The EWC gathering provides a collegiate environment to learn and collaborate with your peers. (If Aristotle was alive today he would have attended.)
- We openly address the issues facing our industry and provide insight into solutions that effectively reduce your cost while simultaneously maintaining the integrity of your work product.
- You will return from the Executive War College with the tools necessary to affect the changes necessary to help your laboratory move from a survival mindset to Thrive Mindset.
- EWC is a content driven event that is narrowly programmed to provide real world solution for small pathology laboratories to be successful. We will navigate, propose, and present solutions to the urgent issues that continue to challenge our industry (staffing, rising cost, tightening margins, regulations and more)
- Each year EWC has over 70 sessions planned on relevant topics that affect your ability to be successful in your laboratory and business. These sessions are lectures, group panels, and special events that are relevant to our industry. Additionally, there is a full day of add on events and workshops for you to choose from.
- The mission of the Executive War College is to provide a learning environment that allows all to discuss, debate, and network with 1000 of your peers including the industry’s pre-eminent pathologists, laboratory administrators, and executives.
- Attending the 2024 Executive War College is an investment you’ll make for your lab in 2024 and beyond, and will transform the way you and your lab does business
See you in New Orleans,
Robert Michel
Success is not an option, it is an Imperative!
70+ leading lab-experts can’t all be right… or can they?
EWC is a place to gain insights into solutions for your laboratories’ unique challenges through introductions to new practices that can positively impact your bottom line. This is accomplished through relevant lectures and panel discussions including the following themes: 1) Transitioning from precision and genetic medicine 2) The integration of clinical care and/or healthcare big data 3) Navigating narrow and exclusionary payer networks. There is something for everyone with 67 sessions to choose from.
Executive War College is the largest gathering in one place of lab and pathology leaders
Phrases like: Unique… One of Kind… indispensable … Not to be missed and more have been used to describe the Executive War College’s annual gathering. However, these words are dwarfed by the impact that attending the college can have on you, your career, and your laboratory. With a record crowd in 2023 of 953 attendees, EWC delivered on the promise to give you ample opportunity to effectively network.
Change your mindset from Survive to Thrive
With unprecedented access to your peers and industry leaders, you will be exposed to a significant amount of value for your time investment. This collegial environment encourages vulnerability, with transparency into successes & failures and how both results pave the way to an improved future. These conversations will boost your ability to thrive in this current and any future business environment.
Attendance in the 2025 Executive War College is an exponential mental growth explosion!
Your learning opportunities at EWC are only limited by your personal ideals of possibilities. Everyday, you will add to your personal ability to solve and be involved with real world solutions in the operation of your laboratory. Attendance in EWC is a must do kind of event if you want to keep up with where the industry is going. EWC will arm you with learning opportunities that include: management master classes, lab executive roundtables, intimate workshops, and exciting post-seminar sessions to rich networking opportunities. Executive War College is the vital investment that prepares your lab to not only survive, but thrive during this time of industry-changing healthcare reforms.
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