2022’s Top 10 Lab Stories Confirm Challenging Times

By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXIX, No. 17 – December 12, 2022 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: There are valuable insights to be gleaned from The Dark Report’s “Top 10 Lab Industry Stories for 2022.” Several of this year’s story picks involve external forces reshaping healthcare in the United States in profound ways. Other story picks for 2022 illustrate …

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Lab Innovators Advocate Need for Clinical Lab 2.0

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIV No. 2 – January 30, 2017 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: It is generally recognized that the clinical lab industry faces a financial squeeze of unprecedented dimensions. Lab test prices are falling steadily and more major cuts are coming to Medicare Part B fees in just 11 months. At the same time, obtaining favorable coverage and r…

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Portland Lab Leverages Informatics for Growth – October 21, 2013

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XX No.14 – October 21, 2013 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: In Portland, Oregon, Legacy Laboratory Services, a division of Legacy Health, continues to post strong volume growth. On…

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November 16, 2015 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII, Number 16 – November 16, 2015 Issue

Roper Industries, the owner of Sunquest Information Systems, Inc., acquired two more lab informatics companies. On October 26, it announced a definitive agreement to purchase A…

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New Lab Industry Trends Require Responses by Labs

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII NO. 7 – May 11, 2015 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: One stark difference between the presentations delivered at last year’s Executive War College and this year’s presentations in New Orleans last week was near-unanimous recognition that the era of fee-for-service payment is soon to end! Speaker after speaker urged the…

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Preparing the Next Generation of Lab Leaders

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXI No. 17 – December 15, 2014 Issue

ACROSS THE LAB TESTING INDUSTRY, individual labs are caught in a serious conundrum. On one hand, the ongoing transformation of healthcare and the erosion of lab test revenues are putting the financial squeeze on a large number of clinical labs and pathology groups. On the other hand, at the very mom…

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Attention Pathologists: Change Is Coming!

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XX No. 13 – September 30, 2013 Issue

IT’S BEEN A BUSY FOUR WEEKS for your editor at THE DARK REPORT. He has traveled to meetings, conducted site visits at a variety of large and small companies serving clinical labs and pathology groups, and even participated in strategic planning sessions for some labs and industry vendors. I asked …

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TriCore Lab Adds Value with Consults, Better TAT

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 8 – June 17, 2013 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Motivated by the goal of delivering more value to clinicians and client hospitals, the lab team at TriCore Reference Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is proactively introducing new services. One such initiative is to travel to hospitals to participate in rounds and co…

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From Modest Beginnings, Two Lab Networks Find Success

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 2 – January 30, 2012 Issue

“For 20 years, our regional laboratory network here in Detroit has played an important role in helping member …

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Pathology Group Establishes Lab Test Exchange Networks

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 4 – March 21, 2011 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: After several decades of steadfastly maintaining their independence from other pathology groups in their community, progressive hospital-based pathology groups are beginning to create regional laboratory testing networks. These collaborations generally start small an…

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