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Donāt Automate Bad Work Processes in Microbiology
CEO SUMMARY: Automation is not always right for every labās microbiology department, according to consultants from bioMeĢrieux. When evaluating automated instruments, it is necessary to review wo…
2022ās Top 10 Lab Stories Confirm Challenging Times
CEO SUMMARY: There are valuable insights to be gleaned from The Dark Reportās āTop 10 Lab Industry Stories for 2022.ā Several of this yearās story picks involve external forces reshaping healthcare in the United States in profound ways. Other story picks for 2022 illustrate …
Insights and Advice about the Lab Staffing Crisis
CEO SUMMARY: For the past decade, itās been recognized that the supply of skilled laboratory professionals is inadequate to meet the needs of the nationās clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups. Leadership at American Medical Technologists recommends steps that labs…
Consumer Trends, Quality Management, and Labs
TODAY’S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IS MARKED by uncertainty and unprecedented pressures. Every clinical laboratory and pathology group faces the triple whammy of shrinking budgets, staff shortages, and a rate of inflation that drives up the cost of supplies and salaries.Ā …
Lean Is Smart Approach to Major Lab Cost Savings
CEO SUMMARY: Itās a time when clinical labs are under extreme pressure to cut costs, even as they deal with understaffing. One proven approach to reducing expenses while preserving quality is to apply Lean methods in conjunction with Six Sigma tools. It is often true that successf…
Solutions to Lab Staffing, Supply, Revenue Problems
CEO SUMMARY: Responding to requests from numerous lab managers, The Dark ReportĀ is organizing a one-and-a-half-day program that will come to your city. Workshop leaders are from labs su…
Rural Hospital Lab Hits Automation Home Run
CEO SUMMARY: With the hospital adding specialist physicians and at the same time enjoying sustained growth in outreach test volume, the lab was hit with the dual need to expand the in-house test menu and reconfigure workflow to handle predictions of ongoing growth in outreach testin…
hc1, Visiun, and Viewics: Analytics Market Evolves
CEO SUMMARY: To understand any development in theĀ marketplace, it is best to follow the money. That Roche, QuestĀ Diagnostics, and LabCorp spent money either to purchase orĀ partner with a lab analytics company in the past 36 months indicatesĀ that these enterprises believe acquiring or …
CURRENT ISSUE
Volume XXXI, No. 5 – April 8, 2024
The fragmentation of consumer markets is reflected in clinical lab services, and The Dark Report examines this trend and how it will impact labs in the coming years. Also, The Dark Report notes that the FDA has issued a controversial memo to reclassify many high-risk IVD assays.
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