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Eight key macro trends in the clinical laboratory and pathology industries will shape 2023 and beyond. The Dark Report outlines these trends for administrators to use in planning their future business strategy. Also, consumers are shaping modern lab outreach efforts and lab leaders will do well to pay heed to generational preferences.
In an exclusive interview with The Dark Report, the founder of an innovative diagnostics company shares the firm’s new hybrid approach to collecting and analyzing blood samples, uniting the retail pharmacy and the clinical lab for both convenience and quality. In other news, an LIS company explains the steps needed to install a new LIS.
The Director of the CDC’s Division of Laboratory Systems gives an exclusive interview about lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. Also, U.S. hospitals are poised to lose billions, a problem that has strong implications for labs. In IVD news, Qiagen and Bio-Rad Laboratories are reportedly in merger discussions.
Four experts explain proven ways to improve payer relationships and get genetic tests reimbursed promptly. Also, Mayo Clinic is exploring how AI and computational pathology can improve productivity and diagnostic accuracy in ways that even labs at smaller hospitals can put into practice.
A telemedicine firm is offering home phlebotomy service as consumers are increasingly interested in new ways to access healthcare. Also, a Texas lab outlines its dual accreditation path, and an expert explains how using Lean methods can help labs cut costs while improving quality and even enhancing employee retention.
A Johns Hopkins Medical point-of-care testing leader shares tactics for standardizing POCT across a wide range of hospitals and other sites. Also, the lab industry notches a win in court against the Department of Health and Human Services relative to PAMA implementation. Finally, the Dark Report has organized a new roundtable workshop program to address solutions to budget cuts, staffing issues and revenue enhancements.
This issue examines the challenges facing the nation’s hospitals, health systems, and clinical labs: unprecedented shortages of lab staff, nurses, and other professionals with inflation-fueled cost increases and deteriorating hospital finances. Also, the issue delivers a case study showing how Bryan Health in Nebraska expanded its lab outreach program to include direct-to-consumer tests.
Theranos COO Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani has been found guilty of 12 counts of conspiracy and wire fraud, and The Dark Report examines his trial and compares it to that of CEO Elizabeth Holmes. Also, there are several important court rulings that will impact the way labs do business, as well as pending federal legislation to consider.
UnitedHealth is now offering a new laboratory benefits management program that may expand health plans’ use of prior authorization. Also, Oracle, a major informatics company, has ambitious plans that could make diagnostic data more accessible and, at the same time, more valuable for clinical laboratories.
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
Now that a federal judge has vacated the FDA’s LDT rule, The Dark Report analyzes the judgement and notes the various steps the FDA could take in response. Also, lab testing at pharmacies is proving to be less successful than was once anticipated.
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