UnitedHealth Group Heads into Difficult Waters Mid-Year

By scottwallask | From the Volume XXXII, No. 8 – June 2, 2025 Issue

WITH THE NEWS THAT THE FORMER HEAD OF UNITEDHEALTH GROUP (UHG) has returned after the sudden resignation of the company’s CEO, it is apparent that pressure on the healthcare company continues to mount. This latest twist comes on top of a bad…

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Labs Beware: ‘Vishing’ Rises as Major Cybersecurity Threat

By Steve Beale | From the Volume XXXII, No. 8 – June 2, 2025 Issue

CYBERSECURITY SHOULD ALWAYS BE TOP OF MIND FOR CLINICAL LABORATORIES AND PATHLOGY groups, especially since the notorious data breach at Change Healthcare in February 2024. Often, such security breaches begin with phishing campaigns in which employees are enticed to click on malicious li…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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