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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 …
FDA CLEARS WAIVED CBC FOR NEAR-PATIENT TESTING
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIV No. 16 – November 20, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Market clearance of the first-ever CLIA waived analyzer for complete blood count and three-part differential tests could cut time-to-answer from days to mere minutes for one of the top 20 tests by volume performed at core laboratories. Developer …
Fla. Lab Sells to Labcorp, But Keeps Nursing Homes
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 16 – November 20, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Vista Clinical Diagnostics of Clermont, Fla., is betting big on the nursing home sector just when many labs serving nursing homes are worried about steep Medicare cuts coming Jan. 1. After selling its physician office referral testing, 35 patient service centers, and a mobile…
FDA Clears Waived CBC For Near-Patient Testing
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIV No. 16 – November 20, 2017 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Market clearance of the first-ever CLIA-waived analyzer for complete blood count and three-part differential tests could cut time-to-answer from days to mere minutes for one of the top 20 tests by volume performed at core laboratories. Developer Sysmex America, Inc., foresees…
Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos Speaks at AACC To Skeptical PhDs, Pathologists, and Press
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIII No. 11 – August 15, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Elizabeth Holmes, Founder and CEO of Theranos, Inc., was given the ideal platform by AACC to show the science behind her lab company’s much-touted diagnostic technologies. But in a surprise to the assembled audience, Holmes, accompanied by three PhDs on her team, chose to d…
Theranos Now Scrambling To Save What It Can
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 10 – July 25, 2016 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: On July 7, CMS imposed severe sanctions on Theranos for CLIA violations. Included is a two-year ban on owning and operating a clinical laboratory for Theranos, CEO Elizabeth Holmes, the former COO, and the former medical director. Theranos appears to be pivoting away from a c…
Newer, Smaller Analyzers Will Bring Big Data to Labs
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 10 – July 13, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Clinical laboratories of all sizes are poised to become the source of much of a hospital or health system’s “big data.” At many academic center labs, greater use of genetic and molecular testing requires that more space and more staff be devoted to data management. A…
LabCorp, Sysmex Will Collaborate To Develop Liquid Biopsy Tests
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII NO. 9 – June 22, 2015 Issue
ANOTHER SIGN OF HEALTHCARE’S TRANSFORMATION came on June 1 when Sysmex Corporation of Kobe, Japan, and Laboratory Corporation of America in Burlington, North Carolina, announced a unique collaboration to develop blood-based molecular diagnostic tests for cancer. The collaboration call…
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…
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