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Online Distance Training Helps Labs Recruit & Retain More MTs
CEO SUMMARY: One surprise about online distance learning (ODL) programs for medical technologists (MT) is that even small hospital laboratories can use them to recruit and train more MTs. Across the United States, a growing number of labs are experiencing a shortage of MTs in their local …
Med Tech Training Via Long-Distance Programs
CEO SUMMARY: Students from as far away as Oregon and Hawaii are using the online distance training program at the Medical College of Georgia, located in Augusta, to get their Bachelor of Science degree and medical technologist certification. Because many regions do not have a local MT tra…
“Companion Diagnostics” Enter Lab Marketplace
CEO SUMMARY: Although the field of pharmacogenomics is still in its infancy, it has begun to develop sub-specialty areas. “Companion diagnostics” describes the marriage of a therapeutic drug with a specific diagnostic assay that can identify which patients will benefit from a prescrip…
LabCorp’s MacMahon Provides Insights About Lab Marketplace
CEO SUMMARY: Pathologists will be particularly interested in what Thomas MacMahon has to say about the evolution of laboratory medicine. As Chairman, President, and CEO of Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, he has continuous access to some of the best strategic analysis about the…
“Where’s The Beef?” AP’s AWOL at AmeriPath
REMEMBER THAT FAMOUS TELEVISION commercial from Wendy’s burger restaurants? The elderly lady scrutinizes a big hamburger bun that’s obviously short on meat and asks the seminal question “Where’s the beef?” In 1984, it was a catch line that captured the American imagination and was repeated…
New Market Channel For Esoteric Testing
CEO SUMMARY: It’s a new marketing model for specialty esoteric tests that presents both clinical and financial challenges to hospital and health system laboratories. Niche labs offering esoteric tests are sending sales reps directly to physicians and bypassing pathologists and lab direc…
“January 20, 2003 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
December proved to be an eventful month for many companies in the lab industry. Here’s some key items of interest, many to be followed in more detail in coming issues of THE DARK REPORT: •AmeriPath, Inc. is to be sold to Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a privat…
Laboratories Sit Squarely Between New Genetics and Today’s Medicine
“Clinical laboratories and pathology groups are at the leading edge of the genetic revolution.” —Rick J. Carlson. CEO SUMMARY: Healthcare futurist Rick J. Carlson believes that knowledge of the human genome will trigger revolutionary…
Major Changes at Dade Behring Soon to Be Visible In Lab Market
Its recent financial restructuring now complete, Dade Behring prepares a “brand building” campaign CEO SUMMARY: Dade Behring is poised to become a tough and high-profile competitor in the laboratory diagnostics marketplace. Earlier this month,…
Quest Diagnostics, CVS Pharmacies, Premier, Novation, Luminex, Careside.
QUEST DOES DEAL WITH CVS DRUGSTORES FOR LAB TESTING PATHOLOGISTS CONCERNED about pharmacists moving into the lab testing arena should closely watch the newly-announced relationship between Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and CVS Corporation. Starting this m…
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Volume XXXII, No. 13 – September 15, 2025
The Dark Report examines a new bill that would reform PAMA and avoid reimbursement rate cuts scheduled for January 2026. Clinical laboratory leaders are urged to make their voices heard in Congress. Also, an expert describes how labs can fix pre-analytical errors and avoid disaster.
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