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Quest Diagnostics, Labcorp Issue Q4 and Full Year 2024 Earnings
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 3 – February 17, 2025 Issue
LAB ACQUISITIONS IN 2024 WERE A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR TO REVENUE GROWTH at the nation’s two biggest clinical laboratory companies. This was reflected in the fourth quarter and full year 2024 earnings reports issued by Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics. Here are recently …
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…
Epic Sued for Antitrust Violations by Small, Start-up Company
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 14 – October 14, 2024 Issue
IT’S BEING CALLED A “DAVID VERSUS GOLIATH” SPAT. Last month, Particle Health of New York City filed an …
HHS Issues Final Rule to Deal with Information Blocking
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 11 – August 12, 2024 Issue
ANY HEALTHCARE PROVIDER DETERMINED TO HAVE COMMITTED “INFORMATION BLOCKING” can now be asse…
Why Ransomware Attacks Are a Threat to Your Lab
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXXI, No. 7 – May 20, 2024 Issue
Have you and your lab management team noticed the major…
Final Rule on AI Transparency Can Benefit Clinical Labs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 5 – April 8, 2024 Issue
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) AND MACHINE LEARNING are becoming ubiquitous in today’s modern hospital systems and clinical laboratories. In response to these developments, federal officials issued a new rule that has major implications on how healthcare providers use artificial intelligence. T…
HHS Publishes Final Rule for Health IT Interoperability
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 3 – February 26, 2024 Issue
THERE IS A NEW FEDERAL RULE intended to improve interoperability and portability of patient information. This rule could be a significant benefit for clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups. In December, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Offi…
Google, Epic to Help Hospitals Migrate EHR Data to Cloud
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, Number 1 – January 16, 2024 Issue
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…
Clinisys CEO Discusses Strategic Changes Labs Need to Make
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 15 – October 23, 2023 Issue
“Today, we predict that the next storm is about ready to happen, and it will involve clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology practices.” —Michael Simpson CEO SUMMARY: In this exclusive Q&A with The Dark Report, Clinisys CEO Michael Simpson describes the …
Atrium Health’s Advice on Epic Beaker Rollouts
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 9 – June 19, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Starting in 2019, Atrium Health began a years-long process to implement Epic Beaker as its laboratory information system. It was an enormous effort, involving dozens of locations across three s…
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