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Interesting New Surprises for Lab Leaders
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 9 – July 6, 2021 Issue
Unexpected and surprising things continue to happen in the clinical laboratory industry. You might consider that to be one unifying theme to the intelligence briefings we present in this issue of The Dark Report. For example, a…
Labcorp Now Using AI for Operations, Patient Care
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 9 – July 6, 2021 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In recent years, Labcorp invested significant sums to use artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies—often integrated with robotic systems—to improve work processes and gain real-time insights from vast amounts of data. In this exclusive interview, La…
May 24, 2021 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 7 – May 24, 2021 Issue
With little fanfare, the company that was incorporated as Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings rebranded itself. It is now officially called Labcorp (with a lower case c). This won’t be much of a change for the clinical laboratory profession, which has long seen the company use …
What Comes Next? Predictions on COVID-19 Test Volumes in 2021-22
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 4 – March 22, 2021 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Incoming data show that the number of referrals for both COVID-19 tests and routine tests is in a decline that started in October and is continuing. This complicates the strategic planning for hospital/health system labs, independent labs, and pathology groups. They nee…
December 28, 2020 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVII, No. 18 – December 28, 2020 Issue
Seattle is the latest city to open walk-up kiosks for COVID-19 testing that allow individuals to collect their own saliva, then hand the specimen to a worker in the booth for overnight testing. Three such kiosks are now in operation. Curative, based in San Dimas, Calif., performs the testing u…
Franciscan Missionaries Sells Lab Outreach Business to LabCorp
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVII No. 13 – September 14, 2020 Issue
SINCE THE ONSET OF THE PANDEMIC IN LATE FEBRUARY, the nation’s two largest clinical lab companies have announced only two acquisitions of hospital laboratory outreach programs, one in June and one this month. Last week, LabCorp announced its acquisition of the clinical ambu…
February 17, 2020 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVII No. 3 – February 17, 2020 Issue
Last month, Tech-Crunch reported that a data breach at Laboratory Corporation of America had exposed the protected health information (PHI) of thousands of patients. TechCrunch published its findings on Jan. 28, 2020. It wrote, “This latest secu…
Two Collaborations: LabCorp-Thermo Fisher, Roche-Illumina
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXVII No. 2 – January 27, 2020 Issue
In deals related to the pursuit of companion diagnostics, two lab companies announced collaboration deals with companies that manufacture gene-sequencing equipment. The deals were announced on consecutive days earlier this month. Financial terms were not disclosed. On Jan. 13, Ro…
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