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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…
Global IVD Companies Report Second Quarter 2024 Earnings
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 13 – September 23, 2024 Issue
IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2024, in vitro diagnostics (IVD) companies reported solid revenues as well as new tests, analyzers, and automation. Most of the IVD companies boosted diagnostic sales in low single digit amounts. During the earnings calls, financial analysts asked company leade…
Wisc. Diagnostic Lab’s Alternative Staff Solutions
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 6 – April 29, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Even as clinical laboratories and pathology groups around the nation cope with a sustained shortage of qualified staff, the team at Wisconsin Medical Laboratories has successfully kept staffing at 96% of authorized levels. One effective strategy they use is to go into the com…
Eight Macro Trends for Clinical Labs in 2023
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 1 – January 3, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory administrators and pathologists will want to carefully study eight important trends that will guide their business strategies in 2023. Many of these macro trends center on financial and operational difficulties and ways to steer around these obstacles. Anothe…
IVD Firms Grow During 2022, but COVID-19 Revenue Dropped
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 7 – May 16, 2022 Issue
MOST MAJOR IN VITRO DIAGNOSTICS (IVD) MANUFACTURERS started strong in 2022 as their base businesses regained steam and made up for the significant falloff in COVID-19 diagnostic test revenue. During first quarter 2022 earnings calls with invest…
Two-Drop ‘Digital CBC’ Enters U.S. Market with FDA Clearance
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 1 – January 19, 2021 Issue
“We believe the ability to work with just two drops of blood, plus the…
Ultimate Clinical Lab Automation: WakeMed Uses Drone to Deliver Patient Specimens
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXVI No. 5 – April 8, 2019 Issue
This is an excerpt from a 1,550-word article in the April 8, 2019 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: For two years, clinical lab professionals at WakeMed Health and Hospitals have tested the use of aerial dron…
WakeMed Uses Drone to Deliver Patient Specimens
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVI No. 5 – April 8, 2019 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: For two years, clinical lab professionals at WakeMed Health and Hospitals have tested the use of aerial drones to transport patient specimens from a physicians’ office satellite lab/draw station to the WakeMed Medical Center’s central lab. Late last month, they completed …
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