OIG Finds 120-Day Delays at Memphis VA Path Lab

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVI No. 12 – September 3, 2019 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Last year, Veterans Administration officials received an anonymous complaint about delays in laboratory specimen processing and results at the Memphis VA Medical Center may have harmed patients and led to a patient death. Following an investigation, the VA’s Office of Inspe…

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USC’s Clive Taylor, MD, Talks Digital Path, WSI

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIV No. 10 – July 17, 2017 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: The FDA’s clearance of the first digital pathology system for use in primary diagnosis will be a disruptive force for pathologists in the coming years. At the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, pathologist Clive Taylor, MD, predicts that the benefits of …

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Ohio State University Medical Center Inks Pact To Adopt Digital Pathology

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 11 – August 15, 2016 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: For years, the adoption of digital pathology has lagged behind the predictions of its advocates. That has encouraged one digital pathology company—Inspirata, Inc., of Tampa—to come up with a different business strategy designed to help anatomic pathology labs address the …

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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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Defining a Path to Clinical Laboratory Best-in-Class via Benchmarks

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No. 13 – September 22, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: With the American healthcare system undergoing a major transformation, it is essential that all clinical laboratories and pathology groups recognize this transformation and effect the right strategies to meet the needs of physicians, patients, and payers. A g…

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Two Omaha Med Centers Form Collaborative Lab

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 10 – July 29, 2013 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: An accountable care organization with a strong clinical laboratory component is taking shape in Nebraska. The University of Nebraska Medical Center has developed a partnership with the Nebraska Methodist Health System to form an ACO called the Accountable Car…

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PathCentral Launches Sale of New Anatomic Pathology LIS

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 9 – July 8, 2013 Issue

THERE IS A NEW PLAYER in the market for anatomic pathology laboratory information systems (APLIS). This gives pathology groups a new option when it is time to upgrade or replace their existing APLIS. It also brings a new competitor into the existing market for anatomic pathology (AP) software. In re…

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Mass Spectrometry, Collaboration Produce Dramatic Results

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XX No. 6 – May 6, 2013 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: When the Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine at the Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, worked with the Pharmacy Services Department, the outcome was a dramatic reduction in the time needed to more accurately identify and treat the pathogens causing gram-negative b…

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2012’s Top Ten Lab Stories Predict More Challenges

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 18 – December 31, 2012 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: It’s been a year with more lows than highs, when viewed through the lens of THE DARK REPORT’S “Top Ten Lab Stories of 2012.” The end of the TC grandfather clause, new policies for prostate biopsy billing, and a dramatic 52% cut to 88305- TC fees were widely reported. …

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Clin Lab Partners’ Strategy Is to Leverage Lab Data

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVIII No. 15 – November 7, 2011 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: At Clinical Laboratory Partners, the strategy is to create and deliver a growing suite of enhanced lab information services to client physicians and payers in the Connecticut market. It wants to differentiate itself from competing lab companies by packaging lab test …

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