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2022 Ranking of the World’s Top 12 IVD Corporations
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 11 – July 31, 2023 Issue
WHILE THE TOP FOUR IN VITRO DIAGNOSTICS (IVD) MANUFACTURERS kept their collective hold on the market compared to 2021, the big surprise was that Thermo Fisher Scientific’s…
HCCI Reports Higher Prices for Hospital Outreach Tests
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 10 – July 10, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It’s another shot across the bows to hospital and health systems that use inpatient test prices when billing health insurers for outpatient/outreach lab tests. In its report, the Health Care Cost Institute documents how these hospital l…
Digital Pathology Business Plan for Both Clinical and ROI Success
By Kristin Althea O’Connor | From the Volume XXX, No. 9 – June 19, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: More pathology groups are ready to consider adopting whole-slide imaging and digital pathology. The decision to proceed should only be made after identifying the clinica…
Despite COVID-19 Losses, IVD Executives Remain Upbeat
By Donna Marie Pocius | From the Volume XXX, No. 8 – May 30, 2023 Issue
Continuing declines in COVID-19 test revenues was a common theme during the first quarte…
Quest, Labcorp Both Report Growth in Base Lab Business
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 7 – May 8, 2023 Issue
DURING THE LATEST QUARTERLY EARNINGS REPORTS from Quest Diagnostics and Labcorp, it was largely “same old, same old” as base business continues to improve post-pandemic, while C…
IVD Firms Prepare for OTC, Home Test Market Expansion
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 6 – April 17, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: With public interest in home testing growing, some IVD manufacturers are preparing to serve a fast-expanding market for over-the-counter and at-home tests. IVD firms are banking on the…
Enzo Biochem’s Lab Business Sold to Labcorp for $146M
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 5 – March 27, 2023 Issue
COMMERCIAL LABORATORY CONSOLIDATION CONTINUES, this time with news earlier this month that New York City-based Enzo Biochem agreed to sell its clinical laboratory business to Labcorp. The deal points to the problem many clinical laboratori…
QuidelOrtho Earns $3.3 Billion in First Year as Combined Firm
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX No. 4 – March 6, 2023 Issue
IN OUR FEBRUARY 13, 2023, ISSUE OF THE DARK REPORT, we analyzed the 2022 full-year and Q4 earnings of major IVD companies. At the time our prior issue went to press, QuidelOrtho had not yet reported its year-end results. …
Public IVD Companies Report Q4, Full-Year 2022 Earnings
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX No. 3 – February 13, 2023 Issue
YEAR-END AND Q4 EARNINGS REPORTS FROM MAJOR IN VITRO DIAGNOSTICS (IVD) COMPANIES pointed to a welcome sign of core diagnostic business rebounding. That’s the good news for IVD firms. The bad news? All of the SARS-CoV-2 testing revenue that th…
Use Histology Laboratory Data to Illustrate Specimen ‘Life Cycle’
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX No. 2 – January 23, 2023 Issue
BECAUSE OF THE CHALLENGING LABOR MARKET, pathology labs need ways to boost staff productivity. To help identify workflow bottlenecks, one approach is to examine lab data and encourage bench teams to think holistically about specimen movement in the lab. [caption id=”attachment_36932″ align=”alignl…
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