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Six Themes Define 2026 Executive War College
CEO SUMMARY: The 31st Annual Executive War College is just eight weeks away. From financial performance to digital pathology and AI, this year’s jam-packed conference will deliver practical solutions for today’s busy clinical laboratory executives. Despite stepping dow…
Lab Specimen Logistics Reach into the Home
Simple, at-home collection of blood samples could go a long way toward improving the patient experience while creating new opportunities for clinical laboratories. But it also presents unique logistical challenges as labs find themselves operating in a more consu…
Boosting Path Revenue with POC Services
CEO SUMMARY: The concept sounds simple—bring mobile point-of-care pathology services to physician offices and ambulatory surgical centers via specially equipped vehicles. Doctors Pathology Services explains some of the road bumps it hit along the way while also uncoverin…
Translating Genomic Testing to the Clinic
CEO SUMMARY: An entrepreneur in the liquid biopsy sector outlines a series of questions to answer if a diagnostic innovation is to ever succeed in the commercial marketplace. Scientists and businesspeople will want to ask about a potential product’s significance, uniquen…
Crucial Themes Shape 2026 Executive War College
With 2026 now upon us, our attention here at …
Bringing Lab Testing to Hybrid Care Locations
CEO SUMMARY: Clinical laboratory testing plays an important role in individual urgent care and emergency sites, but when such services are offered under one roof, planning for lab tests, related equipment, and CLIA provisions becomes more complicated. TriCore shares its ex…
Strategies to Succeed with Laboratory Outreach Programs
In recent years Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics went on buying sprees, acquiring laboratory outreach businesses from major health systems. They argue that they can run these operations more efficiently, while the sellers get much-needed cash infusions. (See …
In 2026, Challenges Can Be Business Opportunities
Looking over The Dark Report’s annual rundown of the most significant clinical laboratory and pathology stories of the past year, the world “tumult” comes to mind. At points during the past year the tumult leaned in the favor of labs, such as a federal …
One Lab’s Solution to Its Histotechnologist Shortage
Histology workforce shortages remain one of the major challenges within the clinical laboratory industry, and, unfortunately, as the demand for histotechnologists increases, the number of qualified personnel has been decreasing. A report releas…
Accreditors Explain Changes to CLIA Supervisor Qualifications
In December 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced major updates to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) personnel regulations, which went into effect on December 28, 2024. During a panel discussio…
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Volume XXXIII, No. 3 – March 2, 2026
The Dark Report highlights the six themes that will carry the 2026 Executive War College on Diagnostics, Clinical Laboratory, and Pathology Management,, including finance issues and AI. Also, we show how RCM automation helped one lab conquer billing headaches and increase revenue.
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