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Variant Sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 Creates Opportunities for Labs
CEO SUMMARY: Variants of the COVID-19 virus are appearing across the world. Recent data show the same variants will infect peopleĀ in several different countries. Here in the United States, interestĀ is growing in having clinical laboratories sequence specimens fromĀ patients who test pos…
Proscia Lands Major Deals as Digital Pathology Demand Grows
EVEN AS THE WORLDWIDE COVID-19 PANDEMIC DERAILED SOME INDUSTRIES, it gave a major boost to digitalĀ pathology. That has meant an expandingĀ market for Proscia, a seven-year-old providerĀ of digital and computational pathologyĀ solutions. Established in 2014, Proscia recentlyĀ won …
Digital Pathology Launched in the āEra of COVID-19ā
CEO SUMMARY: Is it smart to initiate digital pathology (DP) systems and whole-slide imaging just as a novel coronavirus upends healthcare and society at large? That was the question asked at Poplar Healthcare, a pathology lab in Memphis. Senior management proceeded with the implemen…
Understanding COVID-19ās Changes to Lab Industry
CEO SUMMARY: With the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic about toĀ enter its eighth month in the United States, it remains difficultĀ to predict whether the pandemic will strengthen with the fallĀ influenza season or steadily diminish. What is clear to mostĀ pathologists and clinical laboratory executiv…
Specimen Volume Returns at Dallas-based ProPath
CEO SUMMARY: Like other physician specialties, anatomicĀ pathology saw a dramatic collapse in the number of dailyĀ procedures with a corresponding decline in cash flow as theĀ COVID-19 pandemic hit with full force in March, April, andĀ May. The good news is that the daily volume of tissue…
Wisconsin Lab Network Feeds Valuable Data to State Health Lab
CEO SUMMARY: From the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic,Ā the 138-member Wisconsin Clinical Laboratory Network hasĀ reported to the state health lab the number of COVID-19 tests, theĀ number of positive results, as well as other data that includes dataĀ on lab testing supplies and ca…
Proposed Medicare 2021 PFS Cuts Pathology Fees by 9%
IF THE PROPOSED MEDICARE 2012 PHYSICIAN FEE SCHEDULE (PFS) RULEāpublished by the Centers forĀ Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)Ā on Aug. 4ātakes effect as currently written,Ā pathology professional fees will be cutĀ by 9%, effective Jan. 1, 2021.Ā This was not…
August 24, 2020 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Currently at least 15Ā veterinary laboratoriesĀ in the United States performĀ COVID-19 tests. ThisĀ fact was confirmed by Adm.Ā Brett Giroir, MD, the AssistantĀ Secretary of the DepartmentĀ of Health and HumanĀ Services (HHS), during anĀ interview last month conductedĀ by CNN. Officials atĀ HHS confi…
Itās a Clinical Lab Moment … But No Advocates!
Nearly every day since the onset of the SARS-C0V-2 outbreak,Ā there have been stories in the national news about clinical laboratory testingĀ for COVID-19. No laboratory professional alive today has seen such anĀ endless stream of news stories about clinical lab testing. This is a once-in-a-lifetime …
Why Local Labs Deserve More COVID-19 Supplies
CEO SUMMARY: As government officials and IVD firms divertĀ the lionās share of COVID-19 tests to a handful of billion-dollarĀ labs, in thousands of hospitals across the nation COVID-19Ā patients languish days longer before discharge because their hospitalĀ lab must send COVID-19 tests t…
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