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Optum Adds Gestalt to Its Digital Diagnostic Suite
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 3 – February 17, 2025 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This development signals Optum’s intent to be a player in digital pathology. Its deal with Gestalt Diagnostics adds a pathology solution to Optum’s existing suite of cloud-based services for managing digital images generated by cardiology, radiology, and hematology-oncolo…
Optum Adds Gestalt to Its Digital Diagnostic Suite
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 3 – February 17, 2025 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This development signals Optum’s intent to be a player in digital pathology. Its deal with Gestalt Diagnostics adds a pathology solution to Optum’s existing suite of cloud-based services for managing digital images generated by cardiology, radiology, and hematology-oncolo…
Top 10 Lab Stories for 2024 Reflect Important Trends
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 17 – December 16, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Most clinical laboratory managers will agree that the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) final rule to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) is the biggest lab industry story for 2024. Every laboratory performing LDTs must now devote money and time to comply with the…
Change Healthcare Cyberattack Involved 100 Million Americans
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI No. 15 – November 4, 2024 Issue
AFTER EXPERIENCING WHAT MANY CYBERSECURITY EXPERTS consider to be one of the largest, most disruptive ransomware attacks ev…
Significant Developments Are Shaping Lab Market
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 7 – May 20, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: With 140 speakers and 1,000+ attendees, this year’s Executive War College again provided a comprehensive picture of the specific forces reshaping the U.S. market for lab testing services. Presented here is a smorgasbord of information and innovation shared by different spea…
Labcorp, Quest Issue Q1 Earnings, Offer Comments on FDA’s LDT Rule
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 7 – May 20, 2024 Issue
BOTH LABCORP, BURLINGTON, N.C., AND QUEST DIAGNOSTICS, SECAUCU…
Change Health Cyberattack Breaches PHI Here at TDR!
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 6 – April 29, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It was Feb. 21 when cybercriminals attacked Change Healthcare’s claims processing systems. On April 22, UnitedHealth Group issued a statement that PHI for “a substantial proportion of people in America” was breached. We believe the PHI of our employees and T…
UnitedHealth Group Faces DOJ Antitrust Probe
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 6 – April 29, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Recent events have not been kind to UnitedHealth Group and its subsidiaries UnitedHealthcare and Optum. In February, just as UHG’s Change Healthcare division was hit with a major cyberattack that disrupted billions of dolla…
April 8, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 5 – April 8, 2024 Issue
UnitedHealth Group stated that the cyberattack against Change Healthcare, a business unit of UnitedHealth’s Optum division, disrupted processing of approximately $14 billion in claims. The company discovered the cyberattack on Feb. 21 and said it d…
Change Healthcare Hit by Major Cyberattack
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 4 – March 18, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It was a classic ransomware attack against Change Healthcare, the business unit of Optum that is itself a division of UnitedHealth Group. On Feb. 21, this cyberattack shut down critical systems at Change Healthcare, such as those involved in accepting and forwarding prescript…
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