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Integrated delivery network
Allina Will Join Sutter, Focus on Digital Growth
CEO SUMMARY: Minnesota-based Allina Health’s plans to join Sutter Health in California would create a multi-regional integrated delivery network backed by a $2 billion push into digital and outpatient care. As has been illustrated by past agreements and mergers, clinical…
There’s Good and Bad News about Allina-Sutter Deal
Allina Health, Sutter Health, diagnostic laboratories, integrated delivery network, IDN, artificial intelligence, AI, bot, RAND Journal of Economics, …
Lab Specimen Logistics Reach into the Home
Simple, at-home collection of blood samples could go a long way toward improving the patient experience while creating new opportunities for clinical laboratories. But it also presents unique logistical challenges as labs find themselves operating in a more consu…
Strategies to Succeed with Laboratory Outreach Programs
In recent years Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics went on buying sprees, acquiring laboratory outreach businesses from major health systems. They argue that they can run these operations more efficiently, while the sellers get much-needed cash infusions. (See …
Optum Adds Gestalt to Its Digital Diagnostic Suite
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…
Optum Adds Gestalt to Its Digital Diagnostic Suite
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…
Latest Kaufman Hall Report: 40% of Hospitals Losing Money
MANY HOSPITALS REPORT HEALTHIER FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE in the past 18 months. At the same time, a large proportion of U.S…
Four Health Systems Launch ‘Longitude Health’
CEO SUMMARY: For the second time in the past 16 months, respected health systems have taken steps to collaborate specifically to advance value-based care. Longitude Health joins Risant Health as the newest attempt to bring together different health systems and foster collaboration and inn…
Epic Sued for Antitrust Violations by Small, Start-up Company
IT’S BEING CALLED A “DAVID VERSUS GOLIATH” SPAT. Last month, Particle Health of New York City filed an …
Lab Market Fragmenting, Creating New Opportunities
CEO SUMMARY: Even as consolidation continues in the ownership of hospitals, health systems, office-based physicians, and clinical laboratories, there is a powerful trend of fragmentation quietly transforming the way providers—including clinical labs and pathology groups—serve patient…
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Volume XXXIII, No. 4 – March 23, 2026
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