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October 31, 2022, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 15 – October 31, 2022 Issue
Clinical laboratories may soon face increasing pressure to test for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) now that the public has become aware of the pathogen. Over the past month, there has been an onslaught of media attention on RSV. The coverage has often focused on how this common virus could tag…
Getting the Jump on Solving Major Lab Issues
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXIX, No. 14 – October 10, 2022 Issue
Observant laboratory managers and pathologists will note a recurring theme among the business intelligence briefings in this issue of The Dark Report: Solutions to major challenges require proactive steps. A case in point comes…
AI Fuels New Efforts in Computational Pathology
By Scott Wallask | From the Volume XXIX, No. 14 – October 10, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Computational pathology combines technology and data science to improve laboratory medicine. Mayo Clinic is exploring how this new model can improve productivity and diagnostic accuracy in ways that even labs at smaller hospitals can put into practice. Success will stem…
Solutions to Lab Staffing, Supply, Revenue Problems
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 12 – August 29, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Responding to requests from numerous lab managers, The Dark Report is organizing a one-and-a-half-day program that will come to your city. Workshop leaders are from labs su…
June 27, 2022 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, Number 9 – June 27, 2022 Issue
Efforts to revise the much-criticized methods Medicare officials use to establish prices the government pays clinical laboratories under the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) of 2014 got a boost last week. On June 22, a bipartisan bill to accomplish that was introduced in the U.S. Senate. The …
Innovation Showcased at Executive War College
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 7 – May 16, 2022 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This year’s Executive War College on Laboratory and Pathology Management proved to be a high-energy event. A record 900 attendees showed up and responded enthusiastically to visions and predictions of a post-COVID-19 healthcare system that hungers for large volumes of…
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Volume XXXII, No. 6 – April 21, 2025
Now that a federal judge has vacated the FDA’s LDT rule, The Dark Report analyzes the judgement and notes the various steps the FDA could take in response. Also, lab testing at pharmacies is proving to be less successful than was once anticipated.
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