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National Lab Says It Will Help with Supply Chain Services
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX No. 2 – January 23, 2023 Issue
RECOGNIZING THAT SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES are troublesome to some of its clinical laboratory customers, one national lab company has announced it would like to help solve those issues. In September, Quest Diagnostics issued a press release describing …
CLIA on Path to Recognize Lab Data As a Specimen
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX No. 2 – January 23, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Discussions within the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee (CLIAC) are focusing on digital diagnostic data and clinical laboratory testing conducted remotely. CLIAC recommendations about these important topics may eventually be part of updates to …
Eight Macro Trends for Clinical Labs in 2023
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 1 – January 3, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory administrators and pathologists will want to carefully study eight important trends that will guide their business strategies in 2023. Many of these macro trends center on financial and operational difficulties and ways to steer around these obstacles. Anothe…
Siemens Healthineers Plans to Streamline Product Offerings
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 1 – January 3, 2023 Issue
DURING A 15-MONTH STRETCH FROM 2006-2007, Siemens Healthineers spent $14 billion to acquire three competing companies and their various technologies. Today, Siemens is preparing to sunset as many as half of its legacy instruments and assays, whic…
Two Positive Messages to Focus on at Year’s End
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIX, No. 17 – December 12, 2022 Issue
Clinical laboratory managers and anatomic pathologists are winding down another tumultuous year for the healthcare industry. It was a year marked by unexpected twists and turns. It was also a year marked by two positive developments for labs. First, the…
2022’s Top 10 Lab Stories Confirm Challenging Times
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXIX, No. 17 – December 12, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: There are valuable insights to be gleaned from The Dark Report’s “Top 10 Lab Industry Stories for 2022.” Several of this year’s story picks involve external forces reshaping healthcare in the United States in profound ways. Other story picks for 2022 illustrate …
December 12, 2022, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 17 – December 12, 2022 Issue
Is it time to allow consumers to do at-home testing for influenza? Given the already-raging influenza season—flu-related hospitalizations doubled the week of Nov. 20 compared to a week earlier, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—the STAT medical news site ra…
November 21, 2022, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 16 – November 21, 2022 Issue
In yet another employment ripple from the pandemic, a group of more than 75 pathologists penned a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to retain the option for remote diagnostic work. In the letter, which appeared in the Oct. 20 issue of Nature, the pathologists wrote, “During the COVID-19 pa…
U.S. Hospitals Will Lose Billions of Dollars in 2022
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 15 – October 31, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Hospitals and health systems in most regions of the United States are reporting substantial losses, both in patient care and in the value of their investment portfolios. This is inauspicious for the clinical laboratories operated by these hospitals. Hospital-bas…
Insights and Advice about the Lab Staffing Crisis
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXIX, No. 14 – October 10, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: For the past decade, it’s been recognized that the supply of skilled laboratory professionals is inadequate to meet the needs of the nation’s clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups. Leadership at American Medical Technologists recommends steps that labs…
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Volume XXXII, No. 7 – May 12, 2025
Economic, Tech changes drive lab concerns, The Dark Report provides insights from the Executive War College speakers about how clinical labs can use business strategies and tactics to handle the new tariffs, future regulations, and artificial intelligence (AI). Also, this issue provides guidance on how labs and pathologists should prepare for payer audits.
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