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Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark

Pap Testing in Ireland & Massachusetts

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / R. Lewis Dark

IT IS PURELY COINCIDENTAL that, in this issue, you will read intelligence briefings about Pap testing in Ireland (see pages 3-5) and Massachusetts (see pages 10-15). Yet, both stories, taken together, send an important message to laboratory executives and pathologists. Because of ongoing evolution in healthcare, laboratories must continuously innovate and improve specifically to maintain […]

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Getting Vitamin D Right for the Doctor and Patient

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / R. Lewis Dark

MOST OF YOU ARE FAMILIAR with how W. Edwards Deming and Japanese manufacturers demonstrated the power of understanding customer expectations and organizing one’s business to deliver products and services which meet and exceed those expectations. For the past four decades, one thing that many of the world’s most successful organizations have in common is an

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Vitamin D’s Laboratory Magazine Trifecta

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / R. Lewis Dark

WITH APOLOGIES TO FANS OF HORSE RACING, I OBSERVE THAT THE SUBJECT of Vitamin D has just achieved a noteworthy trifecta in laboratory medicine. In recent months, at least four of the bigger controlled-circulation magazines widely-read by laboratory professionals have run major cover stories on Vitamin D and Vitamin D testing. It is not often

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Why You Rely on a Vigilant Lab Industry Press

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / R. Lewis Dark

AS YOU WILL READ ON PAGE 9 of this issue, THE DARK REPORT was recently honored by a national news association, which awarded it first place for “Best Investigative Reporting” against some tough competition. Indulge me, for a moment, as I explain to you why this is a big deal. As a laboratory leader, you

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Dodging the A/H1N1 Influenza Bullet

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / R. Lewis Dark

DID THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD DODGE A BULLET because the first outbreak of A/H1N1 influenza was neither as lethal nor as virulent as long-predicted by public health officials? That might be true today. But wait until the next flu season. No one knows if the A/H1N1 virus will mutate in ways that make

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Inaccurate Lab Results: What Happened in Canada?

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / R. Lewis Dark

MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE WIDELY-PUBLICIZED PROBLEMS with laboratory testing in several locations across Canada in the past few years. We update the situation with a fascinating intelligence briefing on pages 9-12. The first lab scandal to catch the public’s attention was the discovery that, between 1997 and 2005, an anatomic pathology laboratory

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A Guilty Plea and A Global Flu Emergency

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / R. Lewis Dark

APRIL 2009 IS ON ITS WAY TO BECOMING A MILESTONE MONTH for the laboratory testing industry. On April 15, even as corporate officials from Quest Diagnostics Incorporated were walking into a federal courthouse to plead guilty to a criminal felony charge, health officials in Mexico were in the first stages of identifying a new, troubling

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Expanding Lab Market Share in a Recession

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / R. Lewis Dark

IT IS UNCHARTED TERRITORY FOR CLINICAL LABS AND PATHOLOGY GROUPS. A recession now officially exists in the United States. The last time this nation experienced an extended and painful economic recession was between July 1981 and November 1982, according to Wikipedia.com. That means it has been more than 26 years since anyone has managed a

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Information is Power for Lab Leaders!

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / R. Lewis Dark

YOU’VE ALWAYS RELIED ON THE DARK REPORT to keep you at the cutting edge of developments in laboratory management and the broader healthcare system. We’ve consistently been first with the essential, intelligence, and analysis you need to keep your laboratory at its financial and clinical acme. Once again, in this issue of THE DARK REPORT

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Are Labs To Be Punished for Vitamin D Testing?

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / R. Lewis Dark

HERE’S AN INTERESTING QUESTION: Are labs to be punished because patients want to know if their Vitamin D levels are sufficient? Consider this: THE DARK REPORT predicted last year that labs might suffer a backlash from payers as a result of increased demand for Vitamin D testing. In a briefing titled: “Vitamin D Test Volumes

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