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SARS-CoV-2 Variant Sequencing Creates New Opportunities for Labs
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXVIII, Number 2 – February 8, 2021 Issue
This is an excerpt of a 2,964-word article in the February 8, 2021 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Variants of the COVID-19 virus are appearing across the world. Recent data show the same variants wil…
Variant Sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 Creates Opportunities for Labs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, Number 2 – February 8, 2021 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Variants of the COVID-19 virus are appearing across the world. Recent data show the same variants will infect people in several different countries. Here in the United States, interest is growing in having clinical laboratories sequence specimens from patients who test pos…
Proscia Lands Major Deals as Digital Pathology Demand Grows
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, Number 2 – February 8, 2021 Issue
EVEN AS THE WORLDWIDE COVID-19 PANDEMIC DERAILED SOME INDUSTRIES, it gave a major boost to digital pathology. That has meant an expanding market for Proscia, a seven-year-old provider of digital and computational pathology solutions. Established in 2014, Proscia recently won …
Top 10 2020 Lab Stories Are about More than Just COVID-19
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVII, No. 18 – December 28, 2020 Issue
This is an excerpt of a 3,689-word article in the December 28, 2020 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: There are several surprises in The Dark R…
Managing Labs in Two Dimensions in 2021
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXVII, No. 18 – December 28, 2020 Issue
EXPECT 2021 TO BE JUST AS CHALLENGING A YEAR for lab management as was 2020. This will be true not only because of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Other important factors will complicate the operation of clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups in the new year….
2020’s Top 10 Lab Stories Are Without Precedent!
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVII, No. 18 – December 28, 2020 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: There are several surprises in The Dark Report’s list of the Top 10 Lab Stories for 2020. Despite the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic dominating every aspect of clinical care, social…
THE DARK REPORT’s Ranking of 2019’s Top 10 IVD Companies
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVII, No. 18 – December 28, 2020 Issue
One trend continues to reshape the in vitro diagnostics (IVD) industry year after year: acquisitions. Since the 1990s, the biggest IVD companies have frequently used acquisitions to boost their revenue and keep shareholders happy. But acquisition…
UnitedHealthcare Delays Its New Test Registry Protocol Until April 1
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVII, No. 16 – November 16, 2020 Issue
CLINICAL LABORATORIES AND ANATOMIC PATHOLOGY GROUPS working to register their tests with UnitedHealthcare’s (UHC) new Laboratory Test Registry Protocol just got a 90-day reprieve. UHC has delayed the start date to April 1, 2021. …
New Twist: HHS Exerts Authority Over FDA on LDTs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVII, No. 16 – November 16, 2020 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In a recent memo, the federal Department of Health and Human Services’ general counsel rendered a legal opinion that FDA would need to issue new regulations to regulate LDTs. By stepping into this years-long dispute and saying that FDA cannot regulate LDTs through gui…
Medicare COVID Test Coding May Become a ‘Logistical Nightmare’
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVII, No. 16 – November 16, 2020 Issue
STARTING JAN. 1, 2021, clinical laboratories performing COVID-19 tests using high-throughput systems for Medicare patients must comply with a complex new coding rule when submitting claims for these tests. The federal Centers for Med…
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Volume XXVIII, Number 2 – February 8, 2021
VARIANT SEQUENCING FOR COVID-19 is the next big opportunity for clinical labs and pathology groups. It is currently being undertaken by large labs and academic medical centers, but local labs could be next. Also, The Dark Report reports on a highly successful collaboration on a COVID test between a university and a commercial company.
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