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23andMe Says Big Data Breach Due to Customers’ ‘Negligence’
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, Number 1 – January 16, 2024 Issue
LAST OCTOBER, ONE HIGH PROFILE COMPANY THAT DOES GENETICS TESTING acknowledged it had experienced a data breach involving thousands of its customers. Then came an unexpected turn in this data breach event. In subsequent public statements during December, 23andMe stated that the or…
August 29, 2022 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 12 – August 29, 2022 Issue
Interesting things may be unfolding in the genetic testing marketplace. In the past few weeks, at least two high-profile genetic testing companies announced major layoffs. First was Invitae, a genetics testing company in San Francisco. At the end of July, it announced plans to eliminate 1,000 …
Despite Tough Anatomic Pathology Market, Bostwick Opens New Laboratory
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII, No. 1 – January 19, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Once again, entrepreneur and pathologist David G. Bostwick, MD, is starting up a new lab company. Granger Diagnostics is now open and is located in North Chesterfield, Virginia. It is designed to be an anatomic, clinical, and molecular pathology reference laboratory. In an ex…
PerkinElmer Launches Lab Venture in China
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 4 – March 9, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: PerkinElmer is the latest U.S. organization to open a clinical laboratory business in China. Last December, it formally opened its new Suzhou PerkinElmer Medical Laboratory. The new lab is located about 60 kilometers (37 miles) west of Shanghai. It will provide neona…
UCLA, Centre to Open Lab in China to Offer High Quality Testing
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 7 – May 19, 2014 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: To fill the unmet demand for quality clinical laboratory testing in China, a partnership between pathologists at UCLA and Centre Testing International Corp. of Shenzen have built and will operate a lab facility in Shanghai. The new lab will open by late September and…
Pathology, Inc. Sells Equity to Raise Capital
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 2 – January 25, 2010 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In looking how to propel its business to the next level, the partners at Pathology, Inc., opted not to sell their pathology group practice. Instead, they chose to raise capital by selling equity in their company to a group of investors. In this exclusive interview, executives…
Staunch Laboratory Advocate Retires After 31 Years of Service
LAST MONTH, THE LABORATORY INDUSTRY lost one its most dedicated, full-time advocates. With his retirement in January, Joe Boone, Ph.D., ended a 31-year career with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Boone started with the CDC in 1977. In 1992, he …
Emerging Global Trends in How Labs Are Using “Distributed Computing”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 7 – May 14, 2007 Issue
“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…
LIS As Productivity Tool Throughout the Laboratory
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 3 – February 19, 2007 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Is the classic laboratory information system (LIS) morphing into a different information technology product? That’s the observation of one laboratory IT expert, who says that “best of breed” LIS products are becoming productivity tools that support improved clinical per…
Lab Director Takes a Stand On Patented Genetic Testing
By Robert Michel | From the Volume X No. 3 – March 3, 2003 Issue
THIS LETTER APPEARED in the mailbag after our special intelligence briefing on how genetics will transform healthcare and before our look at how high-priced specialty esoteric testing is causing budget headaches for regional labs. (See TDRs, December 30, 2002 and …
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