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Volume XXXII, No. 8 - June 2, 2025

Leveraging Data to Create Lab and Healthcare Efficiencies

In this exclusive interview with The Dark Report, Bradley Bostic, founder, chair, and CEO of healthcare and laboratory data intelligence company hc1 discusses trends in healthcare, how to position clinical laboratories as a strategic asset, and ways to analyze diagnostic data to improve efficiency and increase the bottom line. A key point Bostic reiterates: Third-party […]

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Others Want Diagnostic Data, Labs Should Too

ONE NEED NOT LOOK FURTHER THAN THE PAGES OF THIS ISSUE OF THE DARK REPORT to once again realize the importance of the diagnostic data residing within your clinical laboratory operations. Perhaps it’s rote to say ā€œdiagnostic data is a gold mineā€ for labs. But if all labs truly acted on that notion, wouldn’t everyone

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Federal Court Reverses Conviction in AKS Case

CEO SUMMARY: A federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of an operator of a durable medical equipment company who was accused of violating the Anti-Kickback Statute. A marketing company’s lack of true influence over decision-making related to the case seemed to sway the court. For clinical laboratory owners, the distinction is subtle and may

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UnitedHealth Group Heads into Difficult Waters Mid-Year

WITH THE NEWS THAT THE FORMER HEAD OF UNITEDHEALTH GROUP (UHG) has returned after the sudden resignation of the company’s CEO, it is apparent that pressure on the healthcare company continues to mount. This latest twist comes on top of a bad past 18 months for the company, a period which included a massive cyberattack,

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Epic Gains EHR Market Share as Oracle Loses Ground

EPIC SYSTEMS, THE DOMINANT VENDOR OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS (EHR) SOFTWARE, expanded its market share in 2024, gaining a net 176 hospitals and 29,399 beds. That’s according to KLAS Research, which based its data on interviews with hospitals as well as other sources, including the vendors themselves. This was Epic’s ā€œlargest net gain on record,ā€

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Elizabeth Holmes’ Partner Sought Campaign to Get Her Out of Jail

IN A BRIEF MENTION THAT WENT LARGELY UNNOTICED, Ā a well-known marketing professor said he declined a request by Billy Evans—the partner of disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes—to help organize an effort to get Holmes out of prison. ā€œ[Evans] reached out to me and asked me if I would get involved in a campaign to get

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June 2, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

Our sibling publication, G2 Intelligence, reported in May about a new Department of Justice (DOJ) memorandum that indicated prosecutors will seek to exercise fairness when deciding how to pursue fraud cases against clinical laboratories and other organizations. The DOJ emphasized the need for greater transparency about how parties that self-disclose their fraud problems and cooperate

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