Clarapath Raises $36 Million for Automated Histology Solution

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 11 – August 12, 2024 Issue

AS THE HISTOLOGY WORKFORCE STRUGGLES TO KEEP UP WITH RISING CASE DEMAND, Clarapath—a Hawt…

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Wisc. Diagnostic Lab’s Alternative Staff Solutions

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 6 – April 29, 2024 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Even as clinical laboratories and pathology groups around the nation cope with a sustained shortage of qualified staff, the team at Wisconsin Medical Laboratories has successfully kept staffing at 96% of authorized levels. One effective strategy they use is to go into the com…

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ARUP Laboratories and University of Utah Create MT Training Center

By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX No. 4 – March 6, 2023 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: To help resolve the ongoing shortage of MTs and MLSs, ARUP Laboratories and the University of Utah’s Medical Laboratory Sciences Division took a novel approach to secure funding for a new laboratory scientist training center. They worked with their congressional repre…

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October 22, 2018 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXV No. 15 – October 22, 2018 Issue

Efforts to enroll one million veterans in a program to determine how genetic variations affect health is moving swiftly. Current enrollment is 700,000 veterans and the one million goal is expected to be reached by 2021. In 2011, the federal Department of Veterans Affairs instituted …

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AMA, AHA Join Labs to Request Delay, Fix

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIV No. 14 – October 9, 2017 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: In what may be a first for the clinical lab industry, the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association joined with 20 other healthcare associations to ask CMS Administrator Seema Verma to address the problems with the CMS proposal involving Medicare Part B f…

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MD Self-Referral Issues Target of Utilization Study

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 6 – April 23, 2012 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: When it comes to the in-office ancillary service (IOAS) exception to physician self-referral, the issue of in-clinic pathology services has become a hot potato. Publication in Health Affairs of a study of urologists’ self-referral of their patients for anatomic pathology se…

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April 2, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 5 – April 2, 2012 Issue

Like a tenacious bulldog, Roche Holding AG continues its determined effort to acquire Illumina, Inc., the company that makes gene sequencing systems. Last week, Roche increased its offer from $44.50 per share to $51 per share for Illumina stock. That raises the price…

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CDC Seeks to Identify Best Laboratory Practices

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 2 – January 29, 2007 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: To advance the goal of enhancing the practice of laboratory medicine, the CDC has organized two teams of laboratory experts. They will study best practices and proficiency testing in medical labs nationwide. Such approaches as lab standards, voluntary reporting of adverse eve…

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Acute Histotech Shortage Grows Across the USA

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIII No. 16 – November 27, 2006 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Pathology laboratories are enjoying steady increases in specimen volume and revenue as new molecular assays gain acceptance by clinicians. However, the supply of histotechnologists is failing to keep pace with growth in the volume of tissue-based testing. One executive who pl…

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Victorville Community Hospital, Quest Diagnostics, ASCP, MIME

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIII No. 5 – April 10, 2006 Issue

ASCP ACQUIRES MIME’S CYTOLOGY TRAINING AND PROFICIENCY TESTING IT WAS A BIG BREAK for pathologists and cytotechnologists involved in Pap testing. In a deal announced at the end of February, the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) has acquired “the complete cyt…

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