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Eight Macro Trends for Clinical Labs in 2023

CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory administrators and pathologists will want to carefully study eight important trends that will guide their business strategies in 2023. Many of these macro trends center on financial and operational difficulties and ways to steer around these obstacles. Another broad theme is how established technology is poised in the new year to tackle …

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The Dark Report Announces Top 10 Clinical Laboratory Stories of 2022

TDR Insider / By Robert Michel

There are valuable insights to be gleaned from The Dark Report’s “Top 10 Clinical Laboratory Stories for 2022.” Several of this year’s story picks involve external forces reshaping healthcare in the United States in profound ways. Other story picks for 2022 illustrate the most difficult challenges confronting clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups. For the …

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Two Positive Messages to Focus on at Year’s End

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By R. Lewis Dark

Clinical laboratory managers and anatomic pathologists are winding down another tumultuous year for the healthcare industry. It was a year marked by unexpected twists and turns. It was also a year marked by two positive developments for labs. First, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic seems to have peaked, even as new variants appear. Second, labs continue to …

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2022’s Top 10 Lab Stories Confirm Challenging Times

Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Laboratory, Clinical Laboratory Trends, In Vitro Diagnostics, IVD/Lab Informatics, Lab Intelligence, Lab Risk & Compliance, Laboratory Compliance, Laboratory Information Systems, Laboratory Management, Pathology Trends / By Scott Wallask

CEO SUMMARY: There are valuable insights to be gleaned from The Dark Report’s “Top 10 Lab Industry Stories for 2022.” Several of this year’s story picks involve external forces reshaping healthcare in the United States in profound ways. Other story picks for 2022 illustrate the most difficult challenges confronting clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups. …

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Top Public IVD Companies Report Q3/Q4 2022 Earnings

In Vitro Diagnostics, IVD/Lab Informatics / By Robert Michel

IT WAS A MIXED BAG OF THIRD QUARTER FINANCIAL RESULTS for the nation’s largest in vitro diagnostics (IVD) manufacturers, with COVID-19 testing volume a contributing factor. Fluctuating demand for SARS-CoV-2 testing proved perplexing, as some IVD companies saw an increase in sales of these tests, while some IVD firms reported a nosedive in related test …

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December 12, 2022, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

Late Breaking Lab News / By Robert Michel

Is it time to allow consumers to do at-home testing for influenza? Given the already-raging influenza season—flu-related hospitalizations doubled the week of Nov. 20 compared to a week earlier, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—the STAT medical news site raised an interesting question about why at-home flu tests were not available. That …

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November 21, 2022, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

Late Breaking Lab News / By Robert Michel

In yet another employment ripple from the pandemic, a group of more than 75 pathologists penned a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to retain the option for remote diagnostic work. In the letter, which appeared in the Oct. 20 issue of Nature, the pathologists wrote, “During the COVID-19 pandemic of the past 30 months, one …

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U.S. Hospitals Will Lose Billions of Dollars in 2022

Clinical Laboratory Trends, Lab Intelligence, Laboratory Management, The Dark Report / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Hospitals and health systems in most regions of the United States are reporting substantial losses, both in patient care and in the value of their investment portfolios. This is inauspicious for the clinical laboratories operated by these hospitals. Hospital-based managers can expect more pressure to cut lab costs continually, even as they must …

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Volume XXIX, No. 15 – October 31, 2022

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.

Insights and Advice about the Lab Staffing Crisis

Laboratory Management / By Scott Wallask

CEO SUMMARY: For the past decade, it’s been recognized that the supply of skilled laboratory professionals is inadequate to meet the needs of the nation’s clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups. Leadership at American Medical Technologists recommends steps that labs can take to encourage more individuals to opt for a career in the lab profession. …

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