For one thing, Abaxis has to request a CLIA waiver on licensing each time it develops a new application.
What's more, CLIA required doctors to obtain a license before buying a Piccolo machine, a process that can take months.
David Peikin, Director, Public Affairs Cruise Lines International Association ( CLIA) says that companies like Disney clearly inform passengers of the potential for danger.
Biggest bugbear: the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (or CLIA) passed by Congress in 1988, requiring a federal license for every lab in the land, including those with automated machines only.
In February, CLIA, which represents 26 U.S. cruise ship companies, and the European Cruise Council, with 30 cruise ship companies, announced a policy change requiring all musters be performed prior to leaving port.
Due to the interaction of HIPAA (the Federal medical privacy law), CLIA (a Federal laboratory regulatory law), and state laws, patients can only get direct access to their their test results from labs in a handful of states.
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Separate from CLIA are government bodies in the U.S. like the CDC, which operates the Vessel Sanitation Program, and the U.S. Coast Guard, which oversees safety inspections and ensures compliance with the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea.
"Our industry continues to actively identify a range of measures that will improve the safety of passengers and crew, which is the top priority of the cruise industry, " Christine Duffy, president and CEO of CLIA, said in a statement announcing the new safety policies.
As for cruise ships, the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), an association of cruise lines, said that from 2005 to 2011 only 16 people died in cruise accidents, out of 100 million passengers, putting the odds of death over that period at one in 6.25 million.
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