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CAP Regains VA Lab Accreditation Contract
The Joint Commission had been accrediting Department of Veterans Affairs labs since 2020
CEO SUMMARY: In a blow to The Joint Commission, the US Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a new clinical laboratory accreditation contract to the College of American Pathologists (CAP). The decision highlights the competition between the two accrediting organizatio...
Pathology Journals Not Immune to Questionable Studies
The Dark Report analyzes the numbers behind dubious research and how deception happens
As we recently reported, scientific fraud is more prevalent than many people in the science community would like to admit. The “publish or perish” mindset in academia has led to a proliferation of questionable and even fabricated papers in peer-reviewed journ...
Accreditors Explain Changes to CLIA Supervisor Qualifications
The four main lab accreditation bodies delve into updates that lab leaders should be aware of
In December 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced major updates to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) personnel regulations, which went into effect on December 28, 2024. During a panel discussio...
Oracle Hopes to Sway Market with New AI-Assisted EHR
Oracle Health EVP Seema Verma notes what the company learned from its Cerner acquisition
W hile it remains to be seen whether it truly pushes boundaries, Oracle Health got attention when recently announcing it had released an immersive, next-generation electronic health records (EHR) platform fueled by artificial intelligence (AI). The system is conv...
FDA Has Future Avenues to LDT Oversight
The agency’s authority to regulate software as a medical device is one such opening, attorney says
CEO SUMMARY: Even though a federal court vacated the FDA’s final rule for laboratory developed tests, experts warn that the agency may still be able to regulate some LDTs via its authority over diagnostic software. An attorney notes that software’s central role in mode...
More Signs of Shifting Sands in the Lab World
If you feel like the ground is shifting under your feet in the clinical laboratory world, I would agree with you. It’s c...
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Volume XXXII, No. 15 – October 27, 2025
The Dark Report examines the momentous decision by the VA to switch accreditors from The Joint Commission to CAP. Also, we analyze retractions in pathology journals to gain insight into scientific fraud.
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