Tactics to Standardize Point-of-Care Testing

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 12 – August 29, 2022 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Managing point-of-care testing (POCT) at a multi-hospital health system like Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) often means overseeing thousands of nurses and staff members who perform such tests. Lessons learned at JHM in standardizing POCT, training staff, and maintaining q…

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Oracle’s Plans for Cerner Might Increase Value of Lab Test Data

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, Number 9 – June 27, 2022 Issue

ONE MAJOR INFORMATICS PLAYER HAS AMBITIOUS PLANS that could make diagnostic data more accessible and, at the same time, more valuable for clinical laboratories. Oracle, the new owner of Cerner Corporation, is telling financial analysts that it wants to create a national repository of h…

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U.K.-based CliniSys Acquires Nashville-based ApolloLIMS

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 6 – April 25, 2022 Issue

CONSOLIDATION IN THE CLINICAL LABORATORY INFORMATICS INDUSTRY took another step forward with the announcement that CliniSys (the parent of Sunquest Information Systems) was acquiring Nashville-based ApolloLIMS. This move may also further muddy the line between classic laborato…

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March 14, 2022 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 4 – March 14, 2022 Issue

Telehealth proved to be popular with Medicare patients during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The federal U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reported telehealth visits for Medicare beneficiaries increased in 2020 by an incredible 63 times—from approximately 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 m…

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LIS Pioneer and Entrepreneur Sidney Goldblatt, MD, Dies at 87

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 3 – February 22, 2022 Issue

IN THE 1970S, THE ARRIVAL OF AUTOMATED LAB ANALYZERS—such as the Technicon …

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LIS Market Will Change After Oracle and CliniSys Acquisitions

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 2 – January 31, 2022 Issue

This is an excerpt of a 843-word article in the January 31, 2022 issue of  THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: The Oracle and CliniSys acquisitions will create major changes. With its purchase of Cerner Corpo…

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Witness the Land Grab to Control Healthcare Data

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIX, No. 2 – January 31, 2022 Issue

LIKE MOST OF YOU, IT CERTAINLY CAUGHT MY ATTENTION WHEN I LEARNED in December that Oracle will pay $28 billion—with a B!—to buy Cerner Corporation.  I don’t question the value of Cerner’s products; the company has an EHR product tha…

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LIS Market Will Change After Oracle, CliniSys Deals

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 2 – January 31, 2022 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: With its purchase of Cerner Corporation, Oracle becomes the owner of Cerner’s Millennium laboratory information system (LIS) and CoPathPlus, Cerner’s anatomic pathology LIS. Only three weeks later, CliniSys, a division of Roper Technologies, announced it was acquiri…

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Oracle’s $28b Cerner Deal Shows Value of Health Data

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 2 – January 31, 2022 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: For three decades, pathologists and clinical lab executives regularly pointed out that clinical laboratory data was extremely valuable. But it seemed nothing changed, no one listened, and labs could not monetize their lab data. Now, one of Silicon Valley’s bigger play…

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More LIS Consolidation as CliniSys Buys Horizon Lab

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 2 – January 31, 2022 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: By acquiring Horizon Lab Systems, CliniSys has committed to moving some of its services beyond the clinical laboratory as Horizon sells into other lab markets, such as environmental management. Also, CliniSys will combine with Sunquest Information Systems,…

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