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COVID-19 pandemic
New Federal Rule: Non-Physician Providers Can Supervise Testing
SUMMARY: Itās the latest example of how interim rules issued earlier this year in response to the pandemic are being made permanent by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Issued on Dec. 2, this new final rule allows certain non-physician practitionersāincludi…
NorDx Lab Started COVID Preparation in 2019
This is an excerpt of a 2,995-word article in the December 7, 2020 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: In a remarkable example of prescience, informed by decades-long experience in clinical lab testin…
NorDx Lab Started to Prepare for COVID-19 Testing in 2019
CEO SUMMARY: In a remarkable example of prescience, informed by decades-long experience in clinical lab testing and past epidemics, the president of NorDx Laboratories in Maine saw the December news accounts of a widespread outbreak of a new respiratory disease in China. He warned h…
Pooled COVID Testing a Success for New York Hospital Lab
This is an excerpt of a 1,552-word article in the November 16, 2020 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Pooled COVID testing helps the clinical lab staff at the hospital in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., do …
COVID-19 or Not, Lab Market Enters āTwilight Zoneā
Our healthcare system is in a most remarkable state. Even as all providersāincluding clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groupsācontinue to devote considerable resources to meeting the urgent need for SARS-CoV-2 testing, health insurers and regulators continue to issue new requirements g…
NY Hospital Lab Succeeds with Pooled COVID-19 Testing
CEO SUMMARY: Pooled testing helps the clinical lab staff at the hospital in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., do more COVID-19 tests when supplies might otherwise run short. Lab managers estimate this method has saved 5,000 test cartridges since May. Pooled testing also helps the physician st…
CLIA Lab Inspections Different Because of COVID-19 Pandemic
WITH THE ONSET OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN MARCH, three of the major organizations deemed to have CLIA status suspended inspections of clinical laboratories for several months. Inspections and assessments of laboratories have restarted, but with significant changes because of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak….
Coming Soon: a Different Clinical Lab Industry
āKeep your eye on the ballā is an idiom that originated with baseball. TheĀ idea is that every player on the field should, at all times, know where the ballĀ is so that they can be ready to do their job when the ball comes their way. This is excellent advice for clinical lab administrators and…
Understanding COVID-19ās Changes to Lab Industry
CEO SUMMARY: With the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic about toĀ enter its eighth month in the United States, it remains difficultĀ to predict whether the pandemic will strengthen with the fallĀ influenza season or steadily diminish. What is clear to mostĀ pathologists and clinical laboratory executiv…
New York Firm to Build CLIA Labs in Shipping Containers
CEO SUMMARY: In many respects, the COVID-19 pandemicĀ is like a gold rush for entrepreneurs. Federal and stateĀ governments, colleges, employers, school districts, and otherĀ entities need COVID-19 tests and tens of billions of dollarsĀ are available to pay for such tests. This modern gol…
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Volume XXXI, No. 5 – April 8, 2024
The fragmentation of consumer markets is reflected in clinical lab services, and The Dark Report examines this trend and how it will impact labs in the coming years. Also, The Dark Report notes that the FDA has issued a controversial memo to reclassify many high-risk IVD assays.
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