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Oracle Hopes to Sway Market with New AI-Assisted EHR
W hile it remains to be seen whether it truly pushes boundaries, Oracle Health got attention when recently announcing it had released an immersive, next-generation electronic health records (EHR) platform fueled by artificial intelligence (AI). The system is conv…
Others Want Diagnostic Data, Labs Should Too
ONE NEED NOT LOOK FURTHER THAN THE PAGES OF THIS ISSUE OF THE DARK REPORT to once again realize the importance of the diagnostic data residing within your clinical laboratory operations. Perhaps itâs rote to say âdiagnostic data is a gold mineâ for labs…
Epic Gains EHR Market Share as Oracle Loses Ground
EPIC SYSTEMS, THE DOMINANT VENDOR OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS (EHR) SOFTWARE, expanded its market share in 2024, gaining a net 176 hospitals and 29,399 beds. Thatâs according to KLAS Research, which based its data on interviews with hospitals as well as other sources, including the v…
March 10, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Genetic testing is coming to a cruise ship! The New York Post reported that the MV Narrative will be launched this year by Storylines. CruiseCritic describes this vessel as âa residential ship that will create a floating âneighborhoodâ for a community of up to 1,000 people, including f…
Clinisys CEO Discusses Strategic Changes Labs Need to Make
âToday, we predict that the next storm is about ready to happen, and it will involve clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology practices.â âMichael Simpson CEO SUMMARY: In this exclusive Q&A with The Dark Report, Clinisys CEO Michael Simpson describes the …
2022âs Top 10 Lab Stories Confirm Challenging Times
CEO SUMMARY: There are valuable insights to be gleaned from The Dark Reportâs âTop 10 Lab Industry Stories for 2022.â Several of this yearâs story picks involve external forces reshaping healthcare in the United States in profound ways. Other story picks for 2022 illustrate …
October 10, 2022 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Future regulation of laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) may not be as clear as it once appeared. On Sept. 30, Congress passed a short-term resolution to keep the federal government funded. As part of the move, a proposed bill to increase oversight of LDTs has been sidelined, at least for now, accordin…
Oracleâs Plans for Cerner Might Increase Value of Lab Test Data
ONE MAJOR INFORMATICS PLAYER HAS AMBITIOUS PLANS that could make diagnostic data more accessible and, at the same time, more valuable for clinical laboratories. Oracle, the new owner of Cerner Corporation, is telling financial analysts that it wants to create a national repository of h…
LIS Pioneer and Entrepreneur Sidney Goldblatt, MD, Dies at 87
IN THE 1970S, THE ARRIVAL OF AUTOMATED LAB ANALYZERSâsuch as the Technicon …
LIS Market Will Change After Oracle and CliniSys Acquisitions
This is an excerpt of a 843-word article in the January 31, 2022 issue of  THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: The Oracle and CliniSys acquisitions will create major changes. With its purchase of Cerner Corpo…
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Volume XXXII, No. 18 – December 29, 2025
The Dark Report reviews its top 10 stories from 2025, from the vacating of the FDA’s LDT rule to the merger of Waters and Becton Dickinson’s biosciences and diagnostics units. Also, a lab outlines its solution to a shortage of histotechnologists, and another story shows how pathologists can become patients’ partners.
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