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Lab’s Innovation Center Encourages Staff Ideas
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 7 – May 20, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: At a time when health plans consider lab testing a commodity, the team at Sonora Quest Laboratories deliberately set out to encourage ideas and innovation from its staff by creating the “Innovation Center of Excellence.” One innovation involves helping health plans and ph…
Pathologist Paul A. Brown, MD, MetPath Founder, Dies at 85
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 5 – April 8, 2024 Issue
EARLIER THIS YEAR, THE PATHOLOGY PROFESSION LOST one of what some call “the two Lions of Pathology.” On January 24, 2024, Paul A. Brown, MD, aged 85, died at his home in Palm Beach, Florida. In 1967, Brown was the founder of Metropolitan Pathology Laboratory, Inc., based in Ne…
Clinisys CEO Discusses Strategic Changes Labs Need to Make
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 15 – October 23, 2023 Issue
“Today, we predict that the next storm is about ready to happen, and it will involve clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology practices.” —Michael Simpson CEO SUMMARY: In this exclusive Q&A with The Dark Report, Clinisys CEO Michael Simpson describes the …
Babson Diagnostics’ Hybrid Model Combines Quality, Convenience
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 16 – November 21, 2022 Issue
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…
How Genomic Testing Labs Can Improve Their Relationships with Payers
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 14 – October 10, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: For payers and health plans, it may be a matter of trust that initially curtails speedy reimbursement of new and novel genomic test claims. A panel …
Amazon to Close Employee COVID-19 Testing Lab in Ky.
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 8 – June 6, 2022 Issue
IN A MOVE THAT MAY SURPRISE SOME OBSERVERS, Amazon announced it will close its COVID-19 employee testing laboratory in Hebron, Ky., which is just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. This is the second large COVID-19 clinical laboratory to publ…
Oracle’s $28b Cerner Deal Shows Value of Health Data
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 2 – January 31, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: For three decades, pathologists and clinical lab executives regularly pointed out that clinical laboratory data was extremely valuable. But it seemed nothing changed, no one listened, and labs could not monetize their lab data. Now, one of Silicon Valley’s bigger play…
XIFIN’s Acquisition of OmniSYS Will Unite Lab with Pharmacy
This is an excerpt of a 1,829-word article in the January 10, 2022 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: XIFIN’s acquisition of OmniSys, a pharmacy technology company, is the latest evidence that …
XIFIN Buys OmniSYS, Bridges Lab to Pharmacy
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 1 – January 10, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: XIFIN’s acquisition of pharmacy technology company OmniSYS is the latest evidence that retail pharmacies are preparing to become a new front door to healthcare for consumers. The deal allows XIFIN to bring clinical lab information about patients directly to pharmacist…
New Class of IVD Firms Wants to Serve POCT in Near-Patient Settings
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 13 – September 27, 2021 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Our second installment in this series describes an emerging new clas…
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