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Datavant Touts Tokenization Approach to Protect Sensitive Data
CEO SUMMARY: Labcorp’s plan to launch a platform for Alzheimer’s disease data analysis will use technology from Datavant to guard digital personally identifiable information. A key aspect is tokenization, in which patient data is en…
June, 2026, Intelligence
AI Moves Deeper into Laboratory Workflows OpenAI has launched “ChatGPT for Clinicians,” a free AI platform for verified US physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and pharmacists. Designed to support documentation, medica…
Astorg Makes Billion-Dollar Bet on Microbiology Testing
Thermo Fisher Scientific has agreed to sell its microbiology business to European private equity firm Astorg in a deal valued at $1.075 billion. The transaction, announced in April, includes $1.025 billion in cash and a $50 million seller note. It is expected to …
Behind the Cat-and-Mouse Game of Lab Reimbursement
Financial relationships between clinical laboratories and commercial payers have evolved into a high-stakes, technological tug-of-war. For nearly a decade, the clinical laboratory industry has wrestled with the provisions of the Protecting Acce…
Examining Roche’s Deal to Acquire PathAI
CEO SUMMARY: At first glance, Roche’s announcement that it had bought digital pathology and AI firm PathAI could be seen as a narrowing of options for clinical laboratories and pathology practices. However, insider Lisa-Jean Clifford says labs have long had access to dig…
Experts Explain Evolving Ransomware Attacks
CEO SUMMARY: Security industry reports suggest that ransomware attacks will only increase. Cybersecurity experts who have navigated high-profile ransomware incidents offer details on how modern criminal incursions happen in clinical laboratories, including early warning si…
Payers Unleash AI to Dissect Outlier Billing Patterns
Diagnostic laboratories can follow every clinical guideline, employ the most talented clinical lab professionals, and provide life-saving data to patients, yet still find themselves in the crosshairs of a federal or payer audit. The culprit is …
Artificial Intelligence Briefs
NYC Health CEO Suggests Replacing Radiologists with AI Anatomic pathologists may find concern in the words of Michael H. Katz, MD, the CEO at NYC Health + Hospitals, who indicated the system is prepared to substitute AI for radiologists in ce…
Allina Will Join Sutter, Focus on Digital Growth
CEO SUMMARY: Minnesota-based Allina Health’s plans to join Sutter Health in California would create a multi-regional integrated delivery network backed by a $2 billion push into digital and outpatient care. As has been illustrated by past agreements and mergers, clinical…
There’s Good and Bad News about Allina-Sutter Deal
Allina Health, Sutter Health, diagnostic laboratories, integrated delivery network, IDN, artificial intelligence, AI, bot, RAND Journal of Economics, …
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Volume XXXIII, No. 11 – September 2026
In the September 2026 briefing, The Dark Report digs into a CMS proposal to cut payments for CPT code 88305, potentially based on flawed thinking. Other coverage includes the evolving role of mass spectrometry in clinical labs, payer obstacles to blood-based biomarker tests for Alzheimer’s disease, and how young pathologists can get business skill help.
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