Late Breaking Lab News
July 1, 2019 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 10 – July 10, 2023 Issue
In Houston, news outlets report that MD Anderson Cancer Center was cited for serious deficiencies and the potential for patient harm, following inspections by officials from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Texas Department…
June 10, 2019 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 10 – July 10, 2023 Issue
Digital pathology is coming in a big way to two regions in two different nations. In the United Kingdom, it was announced on May 30 that the North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation in the north of England signed a five-year contract with Sectra of Linköping, Swed…
May 20, 2019 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 10 – July 10, 2023 Issue
Canada faces a similar shortage of medical technologists (MTs) as exists in the United States. “We have reached the point now where some laboratories have been closed for weeks due to insufficient staffing, which is a cascading problem for patients and the healthcare system,” stated Maria Klement…
April 29, 2019 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 10 – July 10, 2023 Issue
Investor interest in digital pathology (DP) and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze digital pathology images seems to be at a fever pitch recently. In the last three weeks, investors poured almost $85 million of capital into just three digital pathology companies, as noted below. This…
April 8, 2019 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 10 – July 10, 2023 Issue
BeaconLBS announced a collaboration with MagnaCare of Garden City, N.Y., last month. The press release issued by the two companies stated that MagnaCare would use the “BeaconLBS Physician Decision Support (PDS) solution with its network of physician and laboratory…
March 18, 2019 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 10 – July 10, 2023 Issue
Because of a $25 million grant from philanthropist Denny Sanford, the Veterans Administration and Sanford Health will provide free genetic testing to 250,000 veterans by 2022. These will be pharmacogenomic (PGx) tests designed to help VA physicians prescribe medicat…
February 25, 2019 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 10 – July 10, 2023 Issue
Quest Diagnostics sold its clinical laboratory business in India last December, thus ending a 12-year effort to build a thriving business in that nation of 1.3 billion people. The buyer was Strand Life Sciences of Bengaluru, India. The transaction was announced in a…
February 4, 2019 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 10 – July 10, 2023 Issue
More than 63 healthcare and medical service organizations signed a letter asking officials at the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reconsider their latest interpretation of a National Coverage Determination (NCD) on the subject of next-generation sequencin…
January 14, 2019 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 10 – July 10, 2023 Issue
Up to 10,000 patients will get free genetic testing at Northwell Health, the nation’s largest urban health network. In a deal announced on Jan. 9, Northwell Health and Color, a genetic testing company, will collaborate on a program to offer geneti…
December 24, 2018 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 10 – July 10, 2023 Issue
Pathologists at the Houston Methodist health system created a website that tracks confirmed flu cases in real time. It is located at: https://flu.houstonmethodist.org and uses epidemiology data from the eight hospitals in the h…
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