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AACC Convention Exhibits Point To New Lab Trends

Laboratory Automation / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: This year the interesting trend at the AACC’s exhibit hall was modular laboratory automation. That’s a big change from the total laboratory automation solutions touted in past years. But watch out! The economics of this equipment have yet to be validated. It was also clear that another coming trend is the globalization of …

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April 17, 2023, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

Late Breaking Lab News / By Scott Wallask

There may soon be a new name for the well-known American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC). The proposed new name is Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM). As of press time, AACC members were set to vote on the new name on April 21—either in person at AACC’s Annual Membership Business Meeting or online. …

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Powerful Lab Market Forces Impacting the Industry

TDR Insider / By Robert Michel

This is an excerpt of a 1,584-word article in the August 8, 2022 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The full article is available to subscribers. CEO SUMMARY: These are challenging times for the nation’s hospitals, health systems, and clinical labs. A perfect storm of three lab market forces involving unprecedented shortages of lab staff, nurses, …

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Labs Face Powerful and Unwelcome Forces

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

OVER THE PAST 25 YEARS, THERE HAS BEEN WIDESPREAD RECOGNITION THAT HEALTHCARE IN THE UNITED STATES is on an unsustainable path. The obvious argument was that year-over-year increases in healthcare costs would eventually overcome the ability of employers (private health plans) and the government (Medicare and Medicaid) to pay the bill. Yet, 25 years after …

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Tough Times Ahead for Hospitals and Their Labs

Clinical Laboratory Trends, Lab Intelligence / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: These are challenging times for the nation’s hospitals, health systems, and clinical labs. A perfect storm involving unprecedented shortages of lab staff, nurses, and other professionals with inflation-fueled cost increases and deteriorating hospital finances was a major topic of discussion by lab leaders and lab vendors at last month’s annual meeting of the …

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LIS Pioneer and Entrepreneur Sidney Goldblatt, MD, Dies at 87

Laboratory Information Systems / By Robert Michel

IN THE 1970S, THE ARRIVAL OF AUTOMATED LAB ANALYZERS—such as the Technicon SMAC 6 and SMAC 12—also coincided with the introduction of the first laboratory information systems (LIS). Probably no single pathologist had a bigger role in developing useful LIS products than Sidney Goldblatt, MD, who founded Sunquest Information Systems in 1979. Last month, the …

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Congress May Soon Act on LDT, IVCT Regulation

Laboratory Compliance / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Congress is gearing up for a debate on how to regulate laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) and other in vitro clinical tests (IVCTs). The VALID Act sets the stage for the FDA to take a greater role in pre-market review of LDTs, and the VITAL Act proposes to keep those tests under CLIA while calling …

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Congress May Soon Act on IVCT, LDT Regulation

TDR Insider / By Robert Michel

This is an excerpt of a 2,017-word article in the November 29, 2021 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Congress is gearing up for a debate on laboratory-developed tests (LDT) regulation and that of other in vitro clinical tests (IVCTs). The VALID …

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Are Live Lab Industry Conferences Returning?

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

For several months, many of you have used conversations and email to encourage us to conduct a live Executive War College before the end of 2021. It was because of this support that we arranged a hotel in a state that has supported a return to more normal activities. Thus, our conference will take place …

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June 22, 2020 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

Late Breaking Lab News / By Robert Michel

As they scramble to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, federal officials in multiple agencies are purchasing equipment and supplies from vendors with dubious credentials and little operating history. In recent days, Pro-Publica reported “a fledgling Texas company was paid $7.3 million for test tubes needed in tracking the spread of the coronavirus nationwide. But, instead of the standard vials, Fillakit LLC has supplied plastic tubes made for bottling soda, which state …

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