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Powerful Trends Reshaping Anatomic Path Profession
CEO SUMMARY: THE DARK REPORT presents its newest biannual review of macro trends reshaping the anatomic pathology profession. These macro trends reveal a profession undergoing change and transformation on multiple fronts. New competitors are crowding into the market, payers and accreditin…
December 10, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Last month, Beckman Coulter, Inc., of Fullerton, California, announced that it will acquire the research flow cytometry instrumentation business of Dako Denmark A/S, of Glostrup, Denma…
BRLI Seizes NYC Share In Two-Stage Effort
CEO SUMMARY: Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc., (BRLI) reported record financial results for its most recent fiscal quarter last month. Much of this success is rooted in BRLI’s discipline in defining itself as a local laboratory and using enhanced lab testing services to align itself as …
Growing NeoGenomics Offers FISH Test TC/PC
CEO SUMMARY: This specialty lab testing company now has laboratories in Fort Meyers, Florida; Nashville, Tennessee; and Irvine, California. It recently beefed up its executive ranks and is adding to its menu of genetic and molecular assays. In December, 2006, NeoGenomics …
$18 Million Judgment for Errors by Laboratory
CEO SUMMARY: In a wrongful birth lawsuit, a high-risk pregnancy physician in New Jersey requested a cytogenetics test on a pregnant mother, but LabCorp’s cytogenetics lab never did the test. After the baby was born with myotubular myopathy—the same deformity the mother had sought to p…
Beckman Coulter, Biosite, Inverness, MedTox, Group Health, Henry Ford, Johns Hopkins
BECKMAN COULTER HOPES TO COMPLETE ACQUISITION OF BIOSITE FINGERS ARE CROSSED at Beckman Coulter, Inc., as the company hopes to complete its acquisition of Biosite, Inc., by tomorrow night (May 15 at midnight). Its original offer to …
Emerging Global Trends in How Labs Are Using “Distributed Computing”
“In several different countries, laboratories already use ‘distributed computing’, in the form of a single LIS data center that provides informatics services to as many as 25 laboratories in a region. The trend is to increase interoperability and portability of the i…
May 14, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
With so many baby boomers in lab management ranks making preparations for their retirement, a question now asked often is “what can I do as an encore?” Recently, THE DARK REPORT caught up with Dixie McFadden, who retired from her position as Laboratory Administrator at Kaiser Permanente N…
Why Labs Will Increase their Use of Middleware and Informatics
“Across the globe, laboratories face similar and significant challenges in how they use information technology and middleware to solve problems.” —Jacques Baudin, Executive Vice President, Technidata America Medical Software CEO SUMMARY: Midd…
March 12, 2007 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
It’s the first opportunity to see how a New York-area laboratory is doing at grabbing UnitedHealth business. Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. (BRLI) of Elmwood Park, New Jersey, announced earnings for its first quarter (ending on January 31) in its 2007 fiscal year…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
Now that a federal judge has vacated the FDA’s LDT rule, The Dark Report analyzes the judgement and notes the various steps the FDA could take in response. Also, lab testing at pharmacies is proving to be less successful than was once anticipated.
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