More Labs Recognize Big Changes Are Coming

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXXI, No. 3 – February 26, 2024 Issue

ONE WAY TO DISCERN THE NEAR FUTURE FOR THE CLINICAL LABO…

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Don’t Automate Bad Work Processes in Microbiology

By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 13 – September 11, 2023 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Automation is not always right for every lab’s microbiology department, according to consultants from bioMérieux. When evaluating automated instruments, it is necessary to review wo…

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Eight Macro Trends for Clinical Labs in 2023

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 1 – January 3, 2023 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory administrators and pathologists will want to carefully study eight important trends that will guide their business strategies in 2023. Many of these macro trends center on financial and operational difficulties and ways to steer around these obstacles. Anothe…

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Lab Vendors Adjusting to Changing Sales Practices

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 8 – June 6, 2022 Issue

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Rural Hospital Lab Hits Automation Home Run

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 1 – January 10, 2022 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: With the hospital adding specialist physicians and at the same time enjoying sustained growth in outreach test volume, the lab was hit with the dual need to expand the in-house test menu and reconfigure workflow to handle predictions of ongoing growth in outreach testin…

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Ultimate Clinical Lab Automation: WakeMed Uses Drone to Deliver Patient Specimens

By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXVI No. 5 – April 8, 2019 Issue

This is an excerpt from a 1,550-word article in the April 8, 2019 issue of THE DARK REPORT. The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: For two years, clinical lab professionals at WakeMed Health and Hospitals have tested the use of aerial dron…

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August 7, 2017 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIV No. 11 – August 7, 2017 Issue

PAML of Spokane, Washington, was the subject of an unusual public disclosure recently made by Laboratory Corporation of America. The lab company sent a statement to the Spokane Journal of Business stating its plans to make PAML “its primary lab site in the western…

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Combining Lean with Lab Automation to Get Impressive Results – July 13, 2015

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXII No. 10 – July 13, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: By combining total lab automation with Lean techniques in a comprehensive makeover of its microbiology lab, one of the largest labs providing hospital acute care and community microbiology services in North America achieved major benefits. Benefits ranged from improve…

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Combining Lean Techniques with Lab Automation to Get Impressive Results

By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXII No. 10 – July 13, 2015 Issue

PROBABLY NO AREA OF CLINICAL LABORATORY MEDICINE is experiencing the dramatic transformation happening in microbiol…

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Combining Lean with Lab Automation to Get Impressive Results

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 10 – July 13, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: By combining total lab automation with Lean techniques in a comprehensive makeover of its microbiology lab, one of the largest labs providing hospital acute care and community microbiology services in North America achieved major benefits. Benefits ranged from impro…

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