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Innovations in Lab Testing Arriving at Light Speed
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXXII, No. 4 – March 10, 2025 Issue
TODAY, IT’S A CHALLENGE TO STAY UP WITH ALL THE NEW THINGS arriving in the lab testing marketplace. Novel assays are launched weekly. That is equally true for next-generation automation and lab analyzers, with vendors regularly announcing something new to their menu of products. The pace of innova…
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…
All Labs Are Threatened by Encryption, Ransomware
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 12 – September 7, 2021 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Cybercrime—in the form of encryption attacks followed by ransom demands—is now a threat to every clinical laboratory and anatomic pathology group in the United States. Experts recommend that all labs elevate the attention they pay to their incident response teams ta…
All Labs Are Threatened by Ransomware Attacks
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 12 – September 7, 2021 Issue
This is an excerpt of a 1,652-word article in the September 7, 2021 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Cybercrime—in the form of encryption attacks followed by ransom demands—is now a threat to…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
Now that a federal judge has vacated the FDA’s LDT rule, The Dark Report analyzes the judgement and notes the various steps the FDA could take in response. Also, lab testing at pharmacies is proving to be less successful than was once anticipated.
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