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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…
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 …
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…
Northwell Health Builds Two Big Lab Facilities
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVI No. 3 – February 25, 2019 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: At Northwell Health, the clinical laboratory team has been busy building and opening two new, large laboratory facilities. First to open was the lab in Little Neck, Queens, a shared lab with NYC Health and Hospitals. This lab will handle 36 million tests annually. The second …
Québec’s Laboratory Consolidation Plan Aims to Save $13.5M
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 11 – July 30, 2018 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In the Province of Québec, an ambitious project is under-way to consolidate the clinical laboratory testing of 123 laboratories into 11 centralized lab clusters. It is one of the largest lab consolidation projects nowhappening in the world. Among the goals of this project is…
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Builds Strong Lab Outreach Business
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 10 – July 9, 2018 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: As health networks and hospitals consider outsourcing their lab outreach programs, the lab team at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (D-H) offers lessons about the value of retaining outreach. D-H is now in the eighth year of a sustained expansion of its laboratory outreach …
Near Real-time Data Helps Lab Save $500K Annually
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 8 – May 29, 2018 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: After hospital labs and pathology groups implement Lean and process improvement methods to harvest the easiest cost savings and boost quality, they often take the next step of introducing real-time analytics systems. Access to detailed data about workflows, productivity, and …
NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: Ralph Taylor, CEO of Sysmex America
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXV No. 3 – February 12, 2018 Issue
“Today, patients want to get diagnosis and treatment faster with fewer visits to the doctor’s office. They want speedier and more comprehensive delivery of clinical services, be it laboratory tests, imaging, or other procedures. Core laboratories have something unique and irreplacea…
Newsmaker Interview: Healthcare’s Transformation Now Bringing Changes to Lab Industry
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXV No. 3 – February 12, 2018 Issue
“Today, patients want to get diagnosis and treatment faster with fewer visits to the doctor’s office. They want speedier and more comprehensive delivery of clinical services, be it laboratory tests, imaging, or other procedures.” …
Value of Miraca Falls By 92% from 2011 to 2017
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 17 – December 11, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Miraca Life Sciences amended its merger agreement with Avista Capital Partners after the lab lost value in the two months since the agreement was signed in September. Factors precipitating the revision were a significant decline in reimbursement rates, stiff competition from …
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Volume XXVIII, No. 1 – January 19, 2021
THE DARK REPORT HAS DiSCOVERED that 3 major health systems with 372 hospitals have switched to a different CLIA accreditation organization over the past 18 months. All the details are examined here, including reasons why a health system might make such a switch. Also in this issue is an exclusive newsmaker interview with the CEO of a new company that is challenging the 70-year-standard Coulter Principle technology in hematology.
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