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LabCorp & Sunrise CEOs Score at Exec War College
CEO SUMMARY: This year’s Executive War College on Lab and Pathology Management delivered major surprises, along with first news of breakthrough innovations and emerging trends. Managed care contracting for lab testing services was this year’s premier topic and there was keen interest …
Aetna Says: LabCorp Is Out & Quest Diagnostics Is In
CEO SUMMARY: January 1, 2007 can be considered the start of a new epoch in managed care contracting for lab test services. News of Aetna’s decision to favor Quest Diagnostics Incorporated with a five-year contract as its only national laboratory provider shows the direction this new epo…
New Technologies Bring New Issues for Pathologists
TECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENTS ARE MOVING through the lab industry like a buzz saw through balsa. Three briefings in this issue provide examples. In two briefings, we address the topic of false positive results generated in part because of innovations in molecular testing. In the third briefing, we expla…
UK Laboratories Pushed to Serve Primary Care
CEO SUMMARY: At the fifth annual Frontiers in Laboratory Medicine (FiLM) meeting in Birmingham, England, lab administrators and pathologists from the United Kingdom and the United States gathered to share knowledge about innovations in the management of clinical laboratories. The event so…
LIS As Productivity Tool Throughout the Laboratory
CEO SUMMARY: Is the classic laboratory information system (LIS) morphing into a different information technology product? That’s the observation of one laboratory IT expert, who says that “best of breed” LIS products are becoming productivity tools that support improved clinical per…
Middleware Produces Data In Real Time for Lab Managers
CEO SUMMARY: With sustained pressure on laboratories to cut costs, reduce errors, and raise quality, lab managers need faster access to detailed information about lab work processes. One solution is to use middleware to collect data in real time from the LIS and other sources, then analyz…
Supremes Rule Against LabCorp On Test Patent
CEO SUMMARY: It’s a bad news/good news outcome for pathologists and lab administrators hoping for clearer guidance on patents granted for DNA and other diagnostic technology. The bad news is that LabCorp gets no relief from lower court rulings that it infringed patents on homocysteine t…
More Labs Opt to Use and Lab Automation
CEO SUMMARY: Many of the nation’s more innovative laboratory organizations are paying closer attention to laboratory productivity and operational performance. To achieve improved operations, these labs are putting three tools to greater use. They are using targeted automation solutions …
Good News for Regional Labs Competing Against Nationals
CAN REGIONAL LABORATORIES compete effectively against the two blood brothers? This question lies at the heart of the business strategy for most hospital laboratory outreach programs in the United States. After all, in their community, the toughest competitors they face are likely to be Quest…
Thermo Electron, Fisher To Do “Reverse Merger”
CEO SUMMARY: Bigger is expected to be better as Fischer Scientific International, Inc. and Thermo Electron Corporation come together by year’s end and form a $9 billion behemoth in the laboratory supply industry. With 350,000 customers in 150 countries,…
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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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