Late Breaking Lab News
January 19, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Sakura Finetek USA, Inc., announced on January 5 that it had acquired 100% of the stock of GeneMed Biotechnologies Inc., of South San Francisco, California, along with its “tissue-based advanced staining business for cancer detection, diagnosis, and monitoring.”…
December 28, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
To advance the practice of precision medicine through better use of genetic testing, a new limited liability corporation (LLC) was formed. Participating in the LLC are North Shore-LIJ Heal…
December 7, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Last week, a joint laboratory accreditation agreement was announced by AABB and the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA). The two associations will now collaborate to allow labs to obtain three assessments under one effort, including AABB accredit…
November 16, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Roper Industries, the owner of Sunquest Information Systems, Inc., acquired two more lab informatics companies. On October 26, it announced a definitive agreement to purchase A…
October 26, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Describing “nutritional chemistry and food safety as an exciting growth opportunity,” CEO David King of Laboratory Corporation of America announced his company’s recent acquisition of International Food Network and The National Food Laboratory. Terms of the deal were not announced. Some analys…
October 5, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
More venture capital money is moving into the medical laboratory industry in India. In September, Metropolis Healthcare Ltd of Mumbai, India, disclosed that Carlyle, a private equity company, had purchased a 36.5% ownership interest in the lab company. In April, Warburg Pincus �…
September 14, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
There is a new national group that has the goal of addressing diagnostic errors in medicine. It is called the Coalition to Improve Diagnosis and became opera- tional last month. The new group was organized by the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM). Eleven organizations are …
August 24, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
California is always in the forefront of states doing innovative things. It announced a public-private effort to develop a clinical laboratory assay that “will enable detection of all known pathogens with a single DNA sequencing test, to diagnose acute infections in hospitalized patients.” Fundin…
August 3, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Cerner Corporation is celebrating a big summer of contract awards from the Department of Defense. First up was a project to support further standardization of anatomic pathology within the laboratories operated worldwide by the DoD. Early in July, it was announced t…
July 13, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
In a milestone for advocates of digital pathology, n anatomic pathology laboratory in The Netherlands has been identified as the first in the world to “transition completely to digital diagnosis.” The laboratory is Laboratorium Pathologie Oost-Nederland (LabPON), located in Hengelo. In a pres…
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