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Optum Adds Gestalt to Its Digital Diagnostic Suite
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 3 – February 17, 2025 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This development signals Optum’s intent to be a player in digital pathology. Its deal with Gestalt Diagnostics adds a pathology solution to Optum’s existing suite of cloud-based services for managing digital images generated by cardiology, radiology, and hematology-oncolo…
Market Speaks to Pathologists: It’s About Data
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXXII, No. 3 – February 17, 2025 Issue
ONE PRIMARY TREND IN THE U.S. HEALTHCARE SYSTEM over the past 20 years deals with how patient data is created and used. Ongoing advances in information technology and the Internet—now commonly called “the cloud”—have created capabilities for data sharing and data analysis today that were unim…
Optum Adds Gestalt to Its Digital Diagnostic Suite
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 3 – February 17, 2025 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This development signals Optum’s intent to be a player in digital pathology. Its deal with Gestalt Diagnostics adds a pathology solution to Optum’s existing suite of cloud-based services for managing digital images generated by cardiology, radiology, and hematology-oncolo…
Pioneering DP Companies Ended Up Being Acquired
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 12 – September 3, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: One reason why the adoption of a full digital pathology solution has lagged behind expectations may be attributed to the fact that four of the pioneering companies did not survive as independent businesses. They were sold and not all the new owners continued investing and dev…
July 1, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 9 – July 1, 2024 Issue
Last week, it was announced that Quest Diagnostics “would acquire select laboratory assets from 12-hospital Allina Health” the Minneapolis-based health system. Quest stated, “Under the terms of the definitive agreemen…
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 …
Fujifilm Buys Inspirata’s Digital Pathology Assets
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX No. 3 – February 13, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Fujifilm’s acquisition of the digital pathology technologies and clients of Inspirata marks the departure of one early entrant into the digital pathology market. At the same time, executives from Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation discuss why the company is incr…
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…
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Volume XXXII, No. 9 – June 23, 2025
In part one of an analysis about the state of AI in clinical laboratories, The Dark Report explores how frontline workers, especially younger ones, are using AI tools like ChatGPT far more than lab leaders. Recent reports elsewhere in the business world show executives underestimate staff AI use, raising concerns about a leadership gap in tech adoption. Clinical lab leaders must get more familiar with AI use cases. Also, in this issue of The Dark Report, there is discussion on how Medicaid cuts may affect clinical labs, an examination of the lab industry fallout from CLIAC termination, an analysis of AMP’s reports that provide crucial insights for Hiring Managers, and notes that regional health systems are new dominant players in M&A.
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