Final Rule on AI Transparency Can Benefit Clinical Labs

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 5 – April 8, 2024 Issue

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) AND MACHINE LEARNING are becoming ubiquitous in today’s 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…

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Google, Epic to Help Hospitals Migrate EHR Data to Cloud

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, Number 1 – January 16, 2024 Issue

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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Year’s Top 10 Lab Stories Contain Surprises & Twists

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 18 – December 26, 2023 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: With the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic now in the rearview mirror of the nation’s 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…

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Artificial Intelligence: Now a Priority for Labs

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 17 – December 4, 2023 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: It’s 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…

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Machine Learning Poised to Give Clinical Labs New Capabilities

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 16 – November 13, 2023 Issue

“One of the first questions I ask the laboratory team is ‘do you want to continue to be a factory or do you want to be a change agent in healthcare?’ They all answer that they want contribute to positive change.” —Michael Simpson …

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November 13, 2023, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 16 – November 13, 2023 Issue

Federal regulators recently confirmed that Dec. 4 remains the deadline for public comment on the proposed rule that the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would use to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs). This was confirmed during a public webinar for the lab and in vi…

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Clinisys CEO Discusses Strategic Changes Labs Need to Make

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, Number 15 – October 23, 2023 Issue

“Today, we predict that the next storm is about ready to happen, and it will involve clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology practices.” —Michael Simpson CEO SUMMARY: In this exclusive Q&A with The Dark Report, Clinisys CEO Michael Simpson describes the …

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Major Events on Horizon to Reshape Lab Market

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXX, No. 7 – May 8, 2023 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Speakers at last month’s Executive War College discussed a range of significant trends and changes happening today in the U.S. healthcare system. Two of the most important trends are …

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February 22, 2022 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

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

Scopio Labs, a medical imaging company in Tel Aviv, recently landed $50 million in Series C venture capital funding as it moves to more fully enter the clinical laboratory market, TechCrunch reported on Feb. 9. Scopio has developed a scanner that can magnify a whole blood sample by 100 …

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Artificial Intelligence: Coming at Light Speed!

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 13 – September 27, 2021 Issue

YOU HAVE PROBABLY  NOTICED THAT THE TERM “ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE” is now part of the description for a growing proportion of the new products and services being offered to your clinical laboratory or anatomic pathology group. Regardless of whether it is automation, analyzers, or software, the claim…

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