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January 27, 2025, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
On Jan. 16, 2025, Paul Mango died at the age of 65. With his passing, the profession of laboratory medicine lost an ally and a friend. In the mid-1990s, while at the Institute for Transfusion Medicine in Pittsburgh, Mango convinced the CEOs of 40 hospitals to collaborate and create t…
Pathologist Asks ChatGPT, Google Notebook to Predict LDT Trial Outcome
On his blog last month, pathologist Bruce Quinn, MD, PhD, published the answers provided by two artificial intelligence chatbots after he asked each to analyze the legal briefs submitted to federal courts in Texas where lab plaintiffs are challenging the FDA’s laboratory developed test (LDT) final …
Using AI to Predict Outcomes in FDA LDT Lawsuits
Given the popular sentiment that artificial intelligence (A…
Lab Briefs: Dec. 16, 2024
55,000 Members of Class Action Case Involving Labcorp…
Two Different LDT Lawsuits Combined in Federal Court
CEO SUMMARY: Different lawsuits challenging the FDA’s LDT rule were filed in recent months by the American Clinical Laboratory Association and the Association for Molecular Pathology. Both lawsuits were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern …
Change Healthcare Cyberattack Involved 100 Million Americans
AFTER EXPERIENCING WHAT MANY CYBERSECURITY EXPERTS consider to be one of the largest, most disruptive ransomware attacks ev…
September 3, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
To challenge the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) final rule on laboratory developed tests (LDTs,) the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) filed a lawsuit on August 20, 2024, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Tex…
How Is COVID-19 Evolving? It’s Not Like Flu or Colds
CEO SUMMARY: It’s been 53 months since the SARS-CoV-2 virus triggered the worst global pandemic since 1918’s influenza pandemic. The coronavirus continues to surprise public health officials as new variants are detected, along with a multi-year pattern of summer surges in new cases. T…
HHS Issues Final Rule to Deal with Information Blocking
ANY HEALTHCARE PROVIDER DETERMINED TO HAVE COMMITTED “INFORMATION BLOCKING” can now be asse…
LDT Rule Is Now a Fact! What Will Be Consequences?
TODAY, THE NEW RULE FOR REGULATION OF LABORATORY DEVELOPED TESTS …
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Volume XXXII, No. 9 – June 23, 2025
In part one of an analysis about the state of AI in clinical laboratories, The Dark Report explores how frontline workers, especially younger ones, are using AI tools like ChatGPT far more than lab leaders. Recent reports elsewhere in the business world show executives underestimate staff AI use, raising concerns about a leadership gap in tech adoption. Clinical lab leaders must get more familiar with AI use cases. Also, in this issue of The Dark Report, there is discussion on how Medicaid cuts may affect clinical labs, an examination of the lab industry fallout from CLIAC termination, an analysis of AMP’s reports that provide crucial insights for Hiring Managers, and notes that regional health systems are new dominant players in M&A.
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