June 10, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 8 – June 10, 2024 Issue

Once a high-flier lab test manufacturer with a market valuation of $2 billion, Cue Health of San Diego filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on May 28. Analysts now say the company is valued at about $15 million. Founded in 2010, Cue Health was developing a test system that consumers could …

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Year’s Top 10 Lab Stories Contain Surprises & Twists

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 18 – December 26, 2023 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: With the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic now in the rearview mirror of the nation’s clinical labs and pathology groups, the important news stories of 2023 were mostly about developments where the consequences will influence laboratory operations in coming years. Artificial intelligence…

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Atrium Health’s Advice on Epic Beaker Rollouts

By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 9 – June 19, 2023 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Starting in 2019, Atrium Health began a years-long process to implement Epic Beaker as its laboratory information system. It was an enormous effort, involving dozens of locations across three s…

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March 27, 2023, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 5 – March 27, 2023 Issue

Clinical laboratory leaders watching at-home care evolve should note the new partnership between Best Buy and Atrium Health in Charlotte, North Carolina. As part of the deal, Best Buy Health, a division of the retailer, will assist patients in setting up the technology pieces of …

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Laboratory Implications of Sanford/Fairview Merger

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

CEO SUMMARY: Not too many years ago, many hospitals and health systems were bullish on their laboratory outreach businesses. But financial pressures on hospitals and health systems may be causing the pendulum to swing in the direction of hospitals selling their lab outreach programs…

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Pandemic Helped Lab with Hospital Leaders

By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX No. 3 – February 13, 2023 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Growth at Atrium Health during the COVID-19 pandemic elevated its clinical laboratory’s profile with medical leaders and health system administrators. What followed was a new spirit of collaboration that led to lab involvement in cost savings efforts, such as improved…

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Lab Accreditors CAP and Joint Commission Face Inspector Hiring Pressures

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX No. 3 – February 13, 2023 Issue

In an exclusive story, The Dark Report covers the difficulties facing lab accreditors the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and The Joint Commission (TJC) in staffing inspection and survey teams under CLIA. Like the clinical laboratories they accredit to the requirem…

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Building Collaborations to Deliver More Value

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXX No. 3 – February 13, 2023 Issue

Innovative clinical laboratory leaders closely monitoring the financial health of their labs or hospitals will find plenty to chew on in this issue of The Dark Report.  The laboratory team at Atrium Health in Charlotte, N…

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2022’s Top 10 Lab Stories Confirm Challenging Times

By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXIX, No. 17 – December 12, 2022 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: There are valuable insights to be gleaned from The Dark Report’s “Top 10 Lab Industry Stories for 2022.” Several of this year’s story picks involve external forces reshaping healthcare in the United States in profound ways. Other story picks for 2022 illustrate …

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Atrium, Advocate Aurora Merge into $27b System

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 8 – June 6, 2022 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Integrated delivery networks continue to consolidate in the U.S., with the latest example being the merger of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. The deal forms a 67-hospital system across two distinct geographic areas in the Southeast and upper Midwest. IDN mergers raise the…

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