Late Breaking Lab News
June 13, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Life insurers are adopting healthcare big data as part of their underwriting process and clinical laboratory test data has an important role. Quest Diagnostics Incorporated participates in this business line. Huffington Post recently published a story on this topic and ident…
May 23, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Patients of Health Diagnostic Laboratories who were tested between 2009 and 2014 are now being dunned by a collection agency! Creditors in the HDL bankruptcy case have engaged a Florida collection agency to go after 9,000 accounts. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, t…
May 2, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Like the Sword of Damocles of Greek myth, market price reporting by labs under the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) continues to hang over the heads of the nation’s clinical laboratories. However, instead of a threat, PAMA market price reporting may soon become a reality. News reports indi…
April 11, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Tonya Mallory is back in the news and this time she is teaming up with the former CEO of Bon Secours Virginia to launch a new healthcare company. Mallory was formerly CEO of Health Diagnostic Laboratory of Richmond, Virginia. This is the lab…
March 21, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Tougher times in the clinical lab testing market have claimed another lab company. On February 28, Artherotech, Inc., posted a notice on its website stating that it had closed permanently, as of that date. Along with its several hundred employees, Artherotech’s closure caught many…
February 29, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Sandy, Utah-based Sure Genomics is the latest genetic testing company to get a letter from the Food and Drug Administration asking why the company is marketing its SureDNA genetic testing kit to consumers without first obtaining clearance from the federal agency. Th…
February 8, 2016 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
Microbiology’s most important reagent is undergoing a supply crunch and becoming more expensive. Agar production is being affected by two factors. One is the increased global demand for seaweed. The second are new restrictions on the trade of seaweed, intended to protect natural stocks of seaweed….
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…
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