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ASCP’s New Pathology Analytics Platform Aims to Improve Workflows
CEO SUMMARY: During a recent webinar, Sachin Gupta, PhD, of the American Society for Clinical Pathology demonstrated the organization’s new Performance and Diagnostics Insights (PDI) analytics and benchmarking platform. PDI provides e…
Datavant Touts Tokenization Approach to Protect Sensitive Data
CEO SUMMARY: Labcorp’s plan to launch a platform for Alzheimer’s disease data analysis will use technology from Datavant to guard digital personally identifiable information. A key aspect is tokenization, in which patient data is en…
Federal Shift on Medicaid Fraud Offers Warning to Labs
CEO SUMMARY: While the announcement of the largest autism fraud case in DOJ history doesn’t directly pertain to clinical labs, it still indicates heightened scrutiny of Medicaid-funded healthcare services n…
Alzheimer’s Data-Sharing Platform Hints at Lab Opportunities
CEO SUMMARY: Savvy clinical lab decision-makers know that they must seek out new revenue streams beyond expanded test menus. Labcorp’s new AI platform for Alzheimer’s disease-related data ana…
Federal Shift on Medicaid Fraud Offers Warning to Labs
CEO SUMMARY:While the announcement of the largest autism fraud case in DOJ history doesn’t directly pertain to clinical labs, it still indicates heightened scrutiny of Medicaid-funded healthcare services na…
Google, Epic to Help Hospitals Migrate EHR Data to Cloud
GOOGLE CLOUD OF MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF., inked a new deal with Epic Systems designed to encourage healthcare providers to move electronic health record (EHR) data to the cloud. This relationship will include efforts to step up the use of artificial intelligence (AI) an…
Data Analytics Improves Lab Productivity, Turnaround Time
CEO SUMMARY: An increased ability to analyze internal diagnostic data helped MultiCare Health System improve laboratory test turnaround times in real time and more efficiently staff i…
Medicare Affiliation Rule Targets Criminal Behavior
CEO SUMMARY: Under a new federal rule in effect this month, all healthcare providers—including clinical laboratories and pathology groups—will need to scour the records of all officers, directors, and affiliates to identify any that have had negative dealings with CMS or other federal…
In New Mexico, Three Collaborators Improve Patient Care, Outcomes
IT’S OFFICIAL! A YEAR-LONG COLLABORATION involving a health insurer, a clinical laboratory, and an analytics company showed that insurers and physicians can use clinically-actionable intelligence developed from medical lab test data to improve patient outcomes. This important accomplishment in patie…
ProMedica, Sonic Form Lab Outreach Joint Venture
CEO SUMMARY: Fast-growing ProMedica Health System of Toledo, Ohio, agreed to a laboratory joint venture with Sonic Healthcare USA. As lab budgets and prices for lab tests are squeezed downward, ProMedica sees opportunity to add volume to this new core lab facility to improve efficiency an…
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Volume XXXIII, No. 11 – September 2026
In the September 2026 briefing, The Dark Report digs into a CMS proposal to cut payments for CPT code 88305, potentially based on flawed thinking. Other coverage includes the evolving role of mass spectrometry in clinical labs, payer obstacles to blood-based biomarker tests for Alzheimer’s disease, and how young pathologists can get business skill help.
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