Late Breaking Lab News
November 4, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Artificial intelligence (AI) is coming to the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Veterans Administration (VA). Last week, on Oct. 30, the two agencies issued an announcement that they would partner “to launch an interagency testing ground forchealth…
October 14, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Babson Diagnostics of Austin, Texas, received a “strategic investment” from Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD). The amount of the investment was not disclosed. In the past year, Babson launched an innovative lab testing service with retail pharmacies in Austin an…
September 23, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
One sign of the financial turmoil associated with the market for genetic tests is the news that all seven independent directors of 23andMe’s board resigned at the same time on Sept. 18. The reason given was that these directors opposed the plan of CEO and co-founder Anne Wojcicki t…
September 3, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
To challenge the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) final rule on laboratory developed tests (LDTs,) the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) filed a lawsuit on August 20, 2024, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Tex…
August 12, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
In recent years, many of the national retail pharmacy chain operators announced big plans to open primary care clinics. Now, after substantial investments of billions of dollars, those same retail pharmacy chains are unwinding these business lines. This spring, Walmart announced it w…
July 22, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Some hospitals failing to comply with the federal price transparency regulation have been fined. The website of CMS.gov lists 15 hospitals and the amount each was fined. On June 6, 2022, the first fines were levied against Northside Hospital of Atlanta ($883,130) and Northsid…
July 1, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Last week, it was announced that Quest Diagnostics “would acquire select laboratory assets from 12-hospital Allina Health” the Minneapolis-based health system. Quest stated, “Under the terms of the definitive agreemen…
June 10, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Once a high-flier lab test manufacturer with a market valuation of $2 billion, Cue Health of San Diego filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on May 28. Analysts now say the company is valued at about $15 million. Founded in 2010, Cue Health was developing a test system that consumers could …
May 20, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Last month, members of a class action lawsuit against Theranos and other defendants received settlement checks. Members of the class included TDR’s Editor-in-Chief, Robert Michel, and his wife, Deborah. On behalf of The Dark Report, the Michels had investigated the actual laborator…
April 29, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
It may be that the genetic data cat is out of the bag already. Nonetheless, lawmakers in Delaware are considering a bill that—among other things—would prevent life insurance companies from buying or using genetic testing data if it was obtained from ancestry companies and not from medical records…
CURRENT ISSUE
Volume XXXII, No. 9 – June 23, 2025
In part one of an analysis about the state of AI in clinical laboratories, The Dark Report explores how frontline workers, especially younger ones, are using AI tools like ChatGPT far more than lab leaders. Recent reports elsewhere in the business world show executives underestimate staff AI use, raising concerns about a leadership gap in tech adoption. Clinical lab leaders must get more familiar with AI use cases. Also, in this issue of The Dark Report, there is discussion on how Medicaid cuts may affect clinical labs, an examination of the lab industry fallout from CLIAC termination, an analysis of AMP’s reports that provide crucial insights for Hiring Managers, and notes that regional health systems are new dominant players in M&A.
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