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Lab Serving Large MD Group Manages Quality and Costs
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI NO. 6 – April 28, 2014 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: For decades, pathologists have pointed out that their expertise in laboratory medicine can be tapped by physicians to improve utilization of lab tests, contribute to improved patient outcomes, and reduce the overall cost of care. Exactly that is now happening at Atrius Heal…
Ottawa Pathology Lab Cuts Turnaround Time By More Than 50%
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No.14 – October 21, 2013 Issue
CEO Summary: Pathologists at Ottawa Hospital not only must handle a large volume of specimens regularly, but are experiencing a 14% per year growth in the number of specimens. Last year, when the average turnaround time for a case was nine days, the pathology department embarked …
PathCentral Launches Sale of New Anatomic Pathology LIS
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 9 – July 8, 2013 Issue
THERE IS A NEW PLAYER in the market for anatomic pathology laboratory information systems (APLIS). This gives pathology groups a new option when it is time to upgrade or replace their existing APLIS. It also brings a new competitor into the existing market for anatomic pathology (AP) software. In re…
Aetna To Lower Lab Test Prices, New Fees Are Effective on July 1
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XX No. 7 – May 28, 2013 Issue
IN RECENT MONTHS, labs are reporting the receipt of letters from Aetna, Inc., announcing that it will pay dramatically less than Medicare prices for many key lab tests. Aetna said that these lower prices will take effect on July 1, 2013. Three examples illustrate the deep fee cuts t…
Pathology Labs Want Method To Correct Specimen ID Errors
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 1 – January 22, 2013 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: When pathology labs discover instances of a misidentified or contaminated tissue specimen, there is a new service that allows them to retrospectively use DNA to properly match that specimen to the correct patient. In part two of our series, we look at how some pathology labs …
Ascend Clinical Acquires PathCentral Lab Business
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 18 – December 31, 2012 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Ascend Clinical and PathCentral see an opportunity to provide sophisticated services to community pathology groups. Ascend Clinical will expand the molecular diagnostic and gene sequencing business it is purchasing from PathCentral. PathCentral will concentrate on marketing i…
New Business Helps Reduce Pathology Specimen ID Errors
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 17 – December 10, 2012 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Prevention of diagnostic testing errors is getting more attention by both physicians and pathology labs because patients are less tolerant of potentially life-changing errors. Strand Diagnostics’ Know Error system is designed to reduce or eliminate errors involving tissue s…
Unprecedented Growth Rates for Molecular Testing
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. – October 8, 2012 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: There will be an expanding role for innovative clinical labs as healthcare moves forward on its path toward personalized medicine. However, to capitalize on this opportunity, pathology groups and clinical labs will need to beef up their information systems. They will also nee…
January 9, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 1 – January 9, 2012 Issue
China-based Kindstar Globalgene Technology, Inc. (Kindstar), of Wuhan, Hubei Province, entered into an agreement to acquire and use the web-based anatomic pathology laboratory information system (APLIS) developed and sold by PathCentral, Inc., of Irvine, California. …
In-Practice Histology Lab Splits Biopsies; ID’s Patient with DNA
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 14 – October 17, 2011 Issue
In response to continuing requests by clients and readers of THE DARK REPORT, this issue institutes a new feature titled “Lab Fraud Watch.” It will provide information about activities in the medical laboratory testing marketplace which could be interpreted as violatin…
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