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AI Reshapes Job Market: New Priorities for Clinical Labs
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a future consideration in the job market. Instead, it is actively reshaping how professionals find work, how roles are defined, and which skills employers value most. According to recent LinkedIn resear…
Top Stories in 2025 Played Out in Courts, Capitol Hill
CEO SUMMARY: The biggest story of the year for clinical laboratories came in a huge court victory, as a federal judge vacated the FDAâs final rule on laboratory developed tests. Labs breathed a sigh of relief after the court decision, as the FDA rule had promised to incr…
For AI Regulation, Look to Data Laws, FDA Action
CEO SUMMARY: AI is creating legal uncertainty for clinical labs, especially around data privacy and FDA oversight of AI tools in diagnostics. Few court cases exist yet that interpret AI use within clinical settings, but labs must watch how HIPAA and state laws wield influence. Vendor soft…
Fitting Pathology AI Firms into DP Market Puzzle
CEO SUMMARY: Today, the best-known developers of AI-based algorithms have been in business almost 10 years. During that time, there has been continuous improvement in the digital technologies used in digital scanning and digital image analysis. Despite these improvements, many pathology g…
Identifying Current Lab Trends from Labcorp & Quest Experience
CEO SUMMARY: Many different factors influence the operations of clinical laboratories in the United States today. One good source of competitive business intelligence is for lab administrators to follow the quarterly earnings calls of the nationâs two biggest public lab corporations. Wi…
Final Rule on AI Transparency Can Benefit Clinical Labs
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) AND MACHINE LEARNING are becoming ubiquitous in todayâs modern hospital systems and clinical laboratories. In response to these developments, federal officials issued a new rule that has major implications on how healthcare providers use artificial intelligence. T…
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…
Yearâs Top 10 Lab Stories Contain Surprises & Twists
CEO SUMMARY: With the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic now in the rearview mirror of the nationâs clinical labs and pathology groups, the important news stories of 2023 were mostly about developments where the consequences will influence laboratory operations in coming years. Artificial intelligence…
Artificial Intelligence: Now a Priority for Labs
CEO SUMMARY: Itâs time to recognize the field of artificial Intelligence as the next major source of disruption. Not only will clinical laboratories, anatomic pathology groups, and diagnostics companies be disrupted by AI-powered technologies, but experts predict that almost eve…
Machine Learning Poised to Give Clinical Labs New Capabilities
âOne of the first questions I ask the laboratory team is âdo you want to continue to be a factory or do you want to be a change agent in healthcare?â They all answer that they want contribute to positive change.â âMichael Simpson …
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Volume XXXIII, No. 1 – January 19, 2026
The Dark Report looks at the FDA’s move to reclassify Oncology companion diagnostics as Class II medical devices and considers how labs can benefit. Also, observers are concerned about the effect of PAMA cuts on rural clinical laboratories.
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