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November 17, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Dealmaking continues in the in vitro diagnostics (IVD) industry as AI-driven genomics and private equity reshape the market for a data-first future. On Nov. 4, Qiagen said it will acquire Parse Biosciences for $280 million to expand its reach into single-cell sequencing, levera…
Identifying Current Lab Trends from Labcorp & Quest Experience
CEO SUMMARY: Many different factors influence the operations of clinical laboratories in the United States today. One good source of competitive business intelligence is for lab administrators to follow the quarterly earnings calls of the nationâs two biggest public lab corporations. Wi…
February 26, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Following an investment of $1.75 million, officials at University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) opened a new lab facility this month that allows it to double the number of medical laboratory technicians it can train, from eight to 10 to as many as 20. In its coverage of the new training …
Yearâs Top 10 Lab Stories Contain Surprises & Twists
CEO SUMMARY: With the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic now in the rearview mirror of the nationâs 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…
Dartmouth Health Lab Recruits and Trains More CLSs
CEO SUMMARY: Keeping clinical laboratories fully staffed may be the single biggest issue confronting labs today. In New Hampshire, the lab team at Dartmouth Health crafted an innovative program that pays students as they pursue their clinical laboratory scientist certification. In…
âLab Workforce Crisis Takes Top SpotââCAP Today
CEO SUMMARY: Just weeks ago, CAP Today characterized the current crisis in staffing clinical laboratories as going âfrom simmer to rolling boil.â Demand for medical technologists and other certified laboratory scientists far exceeds the supply. Consequently, many labs now…
Attention All Lab Professionals: Itâs Time to Act!
AT THIS MOMENT, THE ENTIRE CLINICAL LABORATORY INDUSTRY STANDS on the precipice of the most financially disruptive development in the past three decades. On Jan. 1, the federal Centers for M…
New Business Models for Pathology, Clinical Labs
EXPERTS OFTEN PROCLAIM THAT THE U.S. HEALTHCARE SYSTEM is slow to change and slow to adopt the management approaches, operational innovations, and new technologies that other industries use. One example is adoption of the quality management techniques that W. Edwards Deming and the Japanese develope…
Diagnostic Error Rate Of 21% Revealed By Mayo Clinic Study
CEO SUMMARY: Researchers at the Mayo Clinic showed that only 12% of patients referred to Mayo physicians for a second opinion got a confirmation that their original diagnosis was complete and correct. In 21% of the cases, the diagnosis was completely changed. Among patients who got additi…
ARUP Laboratories Earns CAPâs ISO 15189 Accreditation
CEO SUMMARY: Being accredited to this internationally recognized standard for quality and competence communicates to clients and prospective clients that one of the nationâs largest clinical labs is committed to the highest standards of quality. Clients already knew about that commitmen…
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Volume XXXIII, No. 1 – January 19, 2026
The Dark Report looks at the FDA’s move to reclassify Oncology companion diagnostics as Class II medical devices and considers how labs can benefit. Also, observers are concerned about the effect of PAMA cuts on rural clinical laboratories.
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