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Hospitals Saw Several Benefits In Forming Laboratory Joint Venture
CEO SUMMARY: For the past eight years, growing numbers of hospitals and health systems have launched laboratory outreach programs. Hospital CEOs are recognizing that laboratory outreach programs generate worthwhile operational gains, along with steadily-increasing revenues. However, labor…
Community Hospital Builds Thriving Lab Outreach Program
CEO SUMMARY: When 330-bed Botsford Hospital of Farmington Hills, Michigan, got interested in laboratory outreach 10 years ago, it brought in a new laboratory leader, invested in new analyzers and informatics, and then let the quality of the operation attract new business from the communit…
IVD Stunner: GE to Acquire Abbott’s Diagnostics Unit
CEO SUMMARY: General Electric Corporation made a dramatic entrance into in vitro diagnostics (IVD) by acquiring almost all of Abbott Laboratories’ IVD business division. Once the sale is closed later this spring, GE will be the second major imaging vendor to buy its way into the IVD bus…
Key Trends Drive Change for Clinical Laboratories
CEO SUMMARY: Technology plays an ever-growing role in reshaping the organization and operation of clinical laboratories. New technologies figure prominently in THE DARK REPORT’S 2007 list of key trends in the clinical laboratory industry. Technological advances in instr…
Lab “Day of Disaster” Provides Useful Lessons
CEO SUMMARY: On Friday, May 5, laboratory administrators and pathologists who guided their labs through some of the nation’s biggest natural disasters and emergencies will gather in Miami to share their experiences in contingency planning and disaster response. It is no understatement t…
Internet as Threat and Opportunity for Labs
IT’S BEEN A WHILE SINCE THIS CRUSTY CURMUDGEON WEIGHED IN ON technology changes with the potential to reshape laboratory services as we know them today. Howe…
Middleware Provides Opportunity For Labs to Gain New Functions
“Even as more laboratories begin to use middleware, the number of functions and uses for middleware continues to increase —Gregory R Vail, CEO, Data Innovations, Inc. CEO SUMMARY: Middleware is attracting attention throughout the laboratory ind…
Bi-Annual Look at Trends Reshaping Clinical Labs
CEO SUMMARY: Among other things, we declare the end to the heyday of the independent commercial lab company which offers a broad test menu to all types of office-based physicians. In its place springs forth the specialty or niche testing laboratory. Small and focused on a specific number …
Anatomic Path Lab Weathers Florida’s Blitz of Hurricanes
EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLANS always get rewritten after a crisis. That’s certainly the case with Palm Beach Pathology, which survived the recent blitz of hurricanes that hammered Florida’s east coast. “Our laboratory is located in West Palm Beach, a city hit hard by Hurricane Fran…
Florida Labs Face Off With Hurricane Charley
CEO SUMMARY: Hurricane Charley not only validated long-standing laboratory emergency contingency plans, but it introduced new issues. Even two weeks after the hurricane, hospital labs in the most affected communities continue to deal with storm-related problems. One issue is that damaged …
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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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