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January 9, 2017 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIV No. 1 – January 9, 2017 Issue
December 27 was the 100th birthday of pathologist Jan Steiner, MD, FRCP (C), FCAP, remembered by many long-serving lab executives and clinical pathologists as one of the co-founders, along with James Root, PhD, of Chi Laboratory Systems in the late 1980s. This was a time when he was…
Will Coming Medicare Fee Cuts Reduce Access to Laboratory Tests?
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXIII No. 16 – November 28, 2016 Issue
SEVERAL IMPORTANT clinical laboratory associations are concerned that the lab test price reporting under the Patient Access to Medicare Act of 2014 will have a negative effect on diagnostic innovation and on Medicare beneficiaries’ access to lab testing services. The American Clinical Laboratory A…
Dealing with Realities of Changing Market
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 10 – July 21, 2014 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Swift transformation of the American healthcare system is causing financial challenges for those clinical labs and pathology groups that have been slow to react to these developments. At NorDx Laboratories in Scarborough, Maine, the team is following the classic five rules fo…
Partners Consolidates AP Using Common IT System
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 9 – June 30, 2014 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Partners HealthCare of Boston, Massachusetts, is creating a single informatics platform for CP and AP across all six of the hospitals that it operates. It will replace 19 different pathology systems currently used at six sites with just seven integrated pathology systems. As …
MedTox, Cleveland Clinic Labs, Apollo PACS, Dell, British Columbia Health
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIX No. 3 – February 20, 2012 Issue
GENOME SEQUENCING TO BE OFFERED BY NORWAY IN NATIONAL HEALTH PLAN HERE’S A MILESTONE ON THE PATH TO PERSONALIZED MEDICINE. Norway is the first nation to announce that its national health system will incorporate whole genome sequencing. Cancer is the target of Norway’s f…
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 …
Raising the Bar with Better Phlebotomy Service
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XVIII No. 7 – May 23, 2011 Issue
STEP BY STEP, INNOVATIVE CLINICAL LABORATORIES AND PATHOLOGY GROUPS across the country are deliberately raising the level of service they provide to patients and physicians. In the short term, this often delivers competitive advantage—at least until competing laboratories improve their own service …
Staunch Laboratory Advocate Retires After 31 Years of Service
LAST MONTH, THE LABORATORY INDUSTRY lost one its most dedicated, full-time advocates. With his retirement in January, Joe Boone, Ph.D., ended a 31-year career with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Boone started with the CDC in 1977. In 1992, he …
iTunes Business Model For Digital Path Scans
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 13 – September 29, 2008 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: If BioImagene’s CEO is to be believed, the company is ready to deliver a digital pathology system that is robust and affordable, even in settings with just two or three pathologists. One key to the BioImagene strategy is “per scan” pricing that avoids the need for upfro…
Canadian Pathologists Start PT Testing for ER/PR
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XV No. 11 – August 18, 2008 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Experts point out that widely publicized episodes of lab testing deficiencies in several provinces are signs that chronic underfunding of lab testing services is a key factor in these failures. To restore public confidence in breast cancer testing, the Canadian Association of…
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Volume XXXI, No. 16 – November 25, 2024
Two different federal lawsuits that challenge the authority of the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) will be combined. Plaintiffs and the government in both cases agreed to move forward on this basis.
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