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Telemedicine Firms Offer Home Blood Draws

This is an excerpt of a 1,415-word article in the September 19, 2022 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The full article is available to subscribers. CEO SUMMARY: Telemedicine provider Teladoc Health has announced new services for certain primary care customers that include at-home phlebotomy appointments. The move is evidence of the consumer demand for increased […]

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Lab Workshop Solutions to Staffing, Cost-Cutting, Revenue Problems

TDR Insider / Robert Michel

This is an excerpt of a 1,591-word article in the August 8, 2022 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The full article is available to subscribers. CEO SUMMARY: Responding to requests from numerous lab managers, The Dark Report is organizing a one-and-a-half-day lab workshop program that will come to your city. Workshop leaders are from labs successful

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Powerful Lab Market Forces Impacting the Industry

TDR Insider / Robert Michel

This is an excerpt of a 1,584-word article in the August 8, 2022 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The full article is available to subscribers. CEO SUMMARY: These are challenging times for the nation’s hospitals, health systems, and clinical labs. A perfect storm of three lab market forces involving unprecedented shortages of lab staff, nurses,

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Might LDT Regulation Bill Support Be Waning in Congress?

TDR Insider / Robert Michel

This is an excerpt of an 833-word article in the July 18, 2022 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Just weeks ago, events seemed to indicate that the Verifying Accurate Leading-edge IVCT Development (VALID) Act including an LDT regulation bill was

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Optum to Offer Laboratory Benefits Management to other Health Plans

TDR Insider / Robert Michel

This is an excerpt of a 1,355-word article in the June 21, 2022 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum announced a new laboratory benefits management program aimed at improving utilization of genetic/molecular clinical laboratory testing. The goal is

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Passage of FDA LDT Regulation Inches Closer in the Senate

TDR Insider / Robert Michel

This is an excerpt of a 819-word article in the June 6, 2022 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CONGRESSIONAL LAWMAKERS ARE MOVING A BILL FORWARD that would give the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the power to regulate laboratory-developed tests. There are

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Labs Can Expect COVID-19 Lab Testing Audits and Federal Investigations

TDR Insider / Robert Michel

This is an excerpt of a 2,081-word article in the May 16, 2022 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Billions of federal dollars were paid out for needed SARS-CoV-2 testing during the pandemic. Now, even the best-run clinical laboratories and pathology groups

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Lab Staffing Shortages Reaching Dire Levels

TDR Insider / Robert Michel

This is an excerpt of a 1,423-word article in the April 4, 2022 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Just weeks ago, CAP Today characterized the current lab staffing shortage as going “from simmer to rolling boil.” Demand for medical technologists and other

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Questions Remain about California COVID-19 Lab

TDR Insider / Robert Michel

This is an excerpt of a 2,058-word article in the March 14, 2022 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group CEO SUMMARY: Despite multiple investigations citing more than 60 deficiencies, including some that caused immediate jeopardy to patient safety according to state inspectors, the Valencia

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Pathology Firm’s Investment in AI Signals a New Trend

TDR Insider / Robert Michel

This is an excerpt of a 1,436-word article in the February 22, 2022 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Australian artificial intelligence (AI) company Harrison.ai got AU$129 million from multiple investors, including both Sonic Healthcare—Australia’s largest pathology group—and I-MED Radiology Network.

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