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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…
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…
Picking Top Ten Stories Of 2005 for Lab Industry
CEO SUMMARY: THE DARK REPORT offers its pic…
Do Regional Laboratories Have A Bright Future?
IF INTEGRATED INFORMATICS CAPABILITIES will be a major point of differentiation among competing laboratories in the future, then several warning flags have recently appeared in the laboratory industry. Regional laboratories and hospital lab outreach programs should take notice. One warning flag is t…
Our Tenth Anniversary Serving Your Needs
CEO SUMMARY: It was on September 25, 1995 that the first issue of THE DARK REPORT was published. The laboratory industry was in financial turmoil. There was widespread consolidation in both the commercial lab sector and among hospital laboratories. Reimbursement for lab testing services w…
Payer Consolidation: United Buys Pacificare
CEO SUMMARY: For the second time in nine months, a health insurer company has spent around $9 billion to grow by acquisition. This time, it is UnitedHealth Group purchasing PacifiCare Health Systems. These types of deals impact local labs and pathology groups as existing contracts expire….
Patient ABNs Can Save On Expensive Send-outs
CEO SUMMARY: Throughout the United States, the growing number of high-priced, patent-protected specialty tests is eating into the laboratory budgets of many hospitals. At Hospital Consolidated Laboratories in Southfield, Michigan, this budget-busting threat triggered an innovative respons…
Carilion Health Acquires Chi Lab Consultancy
CEO SUMMARY: In selling Park City Solutions Laboratory Services Group to Carilion Health System, Park City Solutions is returning to its core competency in healthcare information technology consulting services. For Carilion Health System, this acquisition puts it firmly in the national la…
LIS Market Evolving To Serve New Needs
CEO SUMMARY: Ongoing reimbursement declines, coupled with other key factors, are pushing labs to seek new capabilities for their laboratory information systems (LIS). Another influence is the growth of molecular diagnostic programs in hospital labs. Molecular testing places unique demands…
Why Is There Crime In the Lab Industry?
CEO SUMMARY: Since 1991, there have been criminal indictments or criminal convictions of four former CEOs of public lab companies. Given the limited number of public lab companies active in the market at any moment in time, this is a remarkably high rate of criminal behavior. Moreover, th…
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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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