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Pathologists Take Images to the Cloud
CEO SUMMARY: Scaled-up operations, streamlined logistics, and potential cybersecurity benefits all present a valid argument for pathology practices to move their data to the cloud. Digital pathology in particular stands to gain from a cloud-based setup that allows remote v…
NYU Langone Rolls Out Digital Path in One Year
CEO SUMMARY: During an ambitious one-year project, NYU Langone Health implemented full-scale digital pathology. Although the initiative was large, a key organizer insists that smaller diagnostic labs can use some of the same approaches. Two big lessons to convey: Document …
Oracle Hopes to Sway Market with New AI-Assisted EHR
W hile it remains to be seen whether it truly pushes boundaries, Oracle Health got attention when recently announcing it had released an immersive, next-generation electronic health records (EHR) platform fueled by artificial intelligence (AI). The system is conv…
Workers Use AI More than Lab Leaders Think
CEO SUMMARY: In part one of an analysis about the state of AI in clinical laboratories, The Dark Report explores how frontline workers, especially younger ones, are using AI tools like ChatGPT far more than lab leaders. Recent reports elsewhere in the business world show e…
Others Want Diagnostic Data, Labs Should Too
ONE NEED NOT LOOK FURTHER THAN THE PAGES OF THIS ISSUE OF THE DARK REPORT to once again realize the importance of the diagnostic data residing within your clinical laboratory operations. Perhaps it’s rote to say “diagnostic data is a gold mine” for labs…
Epic Gains EHR Market Share as Oracle Loses Ground
EPIC SYSTEMS, THE DOMINANT VENDOR OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS (EHR) SOFTWARE, expanded its market share in 2024, gaining a net 176 hospitals and 29,399 beds. That’s according to KLAS Research, which based its data on interviews with hospitals as well as other sources, including the v…
Top 10 Lab Stories for 2024 Reflect Important Trends
CEO SUMMARY: Most clinical laboratory managers will agree that the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) final rule to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) is the biggest lab industry story for 2024. Every laboratory performing LDTs must now devote money and time to comply with the…
Why Many Pathologists Are Cautious about Digital Path
CEO SUMMARY: In many major academic centers and the nation’s largest regional pathology supergroups, use of whole slide images and digital pathology workflow are accepted and established. This is often because of benefits unsupported by a pure return on investment. The clinical gains ou…
Why Ransomware Attacks Are a Threat to Your Lab
Have you and your lab management team noticed the major…
Google, Epic to Help Hospitals Migrate EHR Data to Cloud
GOOGLE CLOUD OF MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF., inked a new deal with Epic Systems designed to encourage healthcare providers to move electronic health record (EHR) data to the cloud. This relationship will include efforts to step up the use of artificial intelligence (AI) an…
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Volume XXXII, No. 18 – December 29, 2025
The Dark Report reviews its top 10 stories from 2025, from the vacating of the FDA’s LDT rule to the merger of Waters and Becton Dickinson’s biosciences and diagnostics units. Also, a lab outlines its solution to a shortage of histotechnologists, and another story shows how pathologists can become patients’ partners.
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