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HHS Issues Final Rule to Deal with Information Blocking
ANY HEALTHCARE PROVIDER DETERMINED TO HAVE COMMITTED “INFORMATION BLOCKING” can now be asse…
Change Healthcare Hit by Major Cyberattack
CEO SUMMARY: It was a classic ransomware attack against Change Healthcare, the business unit of Optum that is itself a division of UnitedHealth Group. On Feb. 21, this cyberattack shut down critical systems at Change Healthcare, such as those involved in accepting and forwarding prescript…
September Saw 153% Increase in Ransomware Attacks
CEO SUMMARY: Most ransomware attacks don’t generate news stories because the victimized organizations don’t want other threat actors to learn if they paid a ransom to regain access to their information systems. Experts point out that more cyberattacks are happening and that the attack…
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. Anothe…
Babson Diagnostics’ Hybrid Model Combines Quality, Convenience
CEO SUMMARY: Responding to its own data about consumer preferences, healthcare technology company Babson Diagnostics is pursuing a new hybrid model for blood draws that it believes brings together the best of clinical laboratories and retail pharmacies. Laboratory managers and patho…
U.S. Hospitals Will Lose Billions of Dollars in 2022
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-bas…
Clinical Laboratories Face 20% Increase in CLIA Fees
CHANGES HAVE BEEN PROPOSED to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) that would raise fees by 20% for clinical laboratories and amend certain testing personnel qualifications. The American Hospital Association (AHA) has obj…
Tough Times Ahead for Hospitals and Their Labs
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…
CLIA Accreditation Market: More Competitive Now?
CEO SUMMARY: It’s been three decades since compliance with the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) became mandatory. During that time, there has been little competition among the major organizations with deeming status by the Medicare Program to accredit labs to CLIA…
CURRENT ISSUE
Volume XXXI, No. 13 – September 23, 2024
The Dark Report has visited several companies in Europe to see what innovations they have developed that might be coming to laboratories and pathology groups in the U.S. Also, hospital lab outreach businesses are still valuable commodities in the eyes of the Blood Brothers. In addition, The Dark Report delivers the 2nd quarter earnings reports of the top global IVD companies.
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