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WakeMed Uses Drone to Deliver Patient Specimens

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVI No. 5 – April 8, 2019 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: For two years, clinical lab professionals at WakeMed Health and Hospitals have tested the use of aerial drones to transport patient specimens from a physicians’ office satellite lab/draw station to the WakeMed Medical Center’s central lab. Late last month, they completed …

Ultimate Clinical Lab Automation: WakeMed Uses Drone to Deliver Patient Specimens

By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXVI No. 5 – April 8, 2019 Issue

This is an excerpt from a 1,550-word article in the April 8, 2019 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: For two years, clinical lab professionals at WakeMed Health and Hospitals have tested the use of aerial dron…

RFID Lab Inventory System Saves $465K in First Year – June 1, 2015

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII NO. 8 – June 1, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Seeking ways to automate every aspect of work flow, the clinical laboratory at St. Francis Health System in Tulsa, Oklahoma, implemented a unique automated laboratory …

RFID Lab Inventory System Saves $465K in First Year

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII NO. 8 – June 1, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Seeking ways to automate every aspect of work flow, the clinical laboratory at St. Francis Health System in Tulsa, Oklahoma, implemented a unique automated laboratory inventory management system that utilizes RFID. In the first four months, the system helped the hosp…

Solstas Lab Partners, DNA Direct, Pathology, Inc., Slone Partners, PAML

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 2 – February 7, 2011 Issue

SPECTRUM-CARILION NOW WILL BE CALLED SOLSTAS LAB PARTNERS IT IS THE NEXT STEP IN THE INTEGRATION of Spectrum Laboratory Network and Carilion Laboratories. Effective February 1, 2011, their combined businesses will use the name Solsta…

Putting Centrifuges Into Courier Cars For Mobile Processing

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 2 – February 7, 2011 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: To improve the quality of lab services it provides to more than 300 skilled nursing facilities (SNF) while reducing costs, MuirLab of Concord, California, has created a “mobile specimen processing” solution. It operates a fleet of courier cars with centr…

Pursuing More Benefits From Next Generation Lab Automation

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 1 – January 18, 2011 Issue

CEO Summary: Once it was decided to replace an aging, five-year-old laboratory automation system at the laboratory of Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, Illinois, the administration at the hospital issued a challenge. It asked the laboratory team to deliver an immediate 10% cos…

New Clinical Lab Trends To Shape Events in 2010

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 1 – January 4, 2010 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: In presenting this list of macro trends for clinical laboratories, several themes are in play. They range from a continued emphasis on improving lab operations to the need to acquire and deploy sophisticated information technology. During the next few years, the long…

Illinois Pathologists Dodge Medicaid CP Payment Cut

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 13 – September 29, 2008 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Pathologists in Illinois acted swiftly to this month’s announcement that the Illinois Medicaid program would cease to directly pay pathologists directly for clinical pathology professional services. The new policy was to take effect on October 1, 2008. As t…

Lab Automation Viewed As Essential Solution

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 5 – April 14, 2008 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: A merger of three hospitals in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, forced PinnacleHealth’s lab director to find new ways to increase efficiency. A lab automation project helped improve turnaround time and staff productivity and cut costs. The cost savings is about 50 cents per test, …

Volume XXVII No. 9 – June 22, 2020

THE NEWS ON THE SEROLOGICAL TEST FRONT is discouraging, even bleak, as THE DARK REPORT analyzes the outcome of the FDA’s own review of 11 tests previously listed as marketable. Only three tests passed the review, and yet a quality control expert consulted by THE DARK REPORT has dim views of the FDA’s testing operation, leading to even more doubts. Also, health insurers are scraping away at mandated COVID-19 test reimbursements, leaving lab revenues once again at their mercy.

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