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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…
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…
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,…
All Labs Are Threatened by Encryption, Ransomware
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 12 – September 7, 2021 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Cybercrime—in the form of encryption attacks followed by ransom demands—is now a threat to every clinical laboratory and anatomic pathology group in the United States. Experts recommend that all labs elevate the attention they pay to their incident response teams ta…
All Labs Are Threatened by Ransomware Attacks
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 12 – September 7, 2021 Issue
This is an excerpt of a 1,652-word article in the September 7, 2021 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Cybercrime—in the form of encryption attacks followed by ransom demands—is now a threat to…
Labcorp Now Using AI for Operations, Patient Care
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 9 – July 6, 2021 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In recent years, Labcorp invested significant sums to use artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies—often integrated with robotic systems—to improve work processes and gain real-time insights from vast amounts of data. In this exclusive interview, La…
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