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Lab Innovators in Europe Have Solutions for USA
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 13 – September 23, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Rapid advances in a wide range of technologies over the past 15 years are enabling entrepreneurs to create transformative products for use by clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups. The Dark Report recently toured Europe to visit several such innovative companies…
Don’t Automate Bad Work Processes in Microbiology
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXX, No. 13 – September 11, 2023 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Automation is not always right for every lab’s microbiology department, according to consultants from bioMérieux. When evaluating automated instruments, it is necessary to review wo…
2022’s Top 10 Lab Stories Confirm Challenging Times
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXIX, No. 17 – December 12, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: There are valuable insights to be gleaned from The Dark Report’s “Top 10 Lab Industry Stories for 2022.” Several of this year’s 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
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXIX, No. 14 – October 10, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: For the past decade, it’s been recognized that the supply of skilled laboratory professionals is inadequate to meet the needs of the nation’s clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups. Leadership at American Medical Technologists recommends steps that labs…
Consumer Trends, Quality Management, and Labs
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIX, No. 13 – September 19, 2022 Issue
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. …
Lean Is Smart Approach to Major Lab Cost Savings
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 13 – September 19, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It’s 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
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 12 – August 29, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Responding to requests from numerous lab managers, The Dark Report 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
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 1 – January 10, 2022 Issue
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
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 2 – February 8, 2021 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: To understand any development in the marketplace, it is best to follow the money. That Roche, Quest Diagnostics, and LabCorp spent money either to purchase or partner with a lab analytics company in the past 36 months indicates that these enterprises believe acquiring or …
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