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2011’s Top 10 Lab Stories Point to a Busy 2012
CEO SUMMARY: Given the specific news stories that make up THE DARK REPORT’S list of the “Top Ten Lab Stories for 2011,” it might be said that 2011 was a rather quiet year overshadowed by anticipation of the coming reforms mandated by the Accountable Care Act of 2010. For the clinica…
Anatomic Path Insourcing Expected to Be Ongoing
CEO SUMMARY: Insourcing of anatomic pathology services by office-based physicians has been especially prevalent and is increasing among three specialties (gastroenterology, urology, and dermatology), according to a survey conducted last month. Survey respondents also indicated that the tr…
Lab Testing, Pathology Is Fast-Growing in China
CEO SUMMARY: It was record attendance at the major pathology congress which took place in Hangzhou, China, last month. Because of the ongoing growth of China’s economy, the demand for healthcare—and for high-quality clinical lab and pathology testing—is rising at an accelerated pace…
November 7, 2011 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
Many experts were impressed when General Electric Co. ponied up $587 million to acquire pathology testing company Clarient, Inc., in October 2010. Now comes further insight behind this transaction. At an investment conference in Boston on November 3, John Dineen, CEO…
Healthcare Reform and Laboratory Testing
WE ARE ONLY 120 DAYS FROM IMPLEMENTING another round of programs mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 and associated legislation. Certain programs become effective on January 1, 2012. On that date, the transition to HIPAA form 5010 takes effect. All clinical lab…
How In-Clinic Path Lab Benefits GI Practice
CEO SUMMARY: In Manassas, Virginia, a five-physician gastroenterology group is using its in-clinic anatomic pathology laboratory to advance patient care, while boosting revenue associated with this ancillary service. In this exclusive interview, the group’s physician business l…
AP Labs in Doc’s Clinics Now an Established Fact
CEO SUMMARY: It started about eight years ago and shows no signs of slowing down. Specialist physicians, particularly urologists and gastroenterologists, have learned about the benefits of operating their own in-clinic anatomic pathology laboratories. One-by-one, these specialty …
How Digital Pathology Helps Pathologists Deliver Added Value
“Pathologists have the opportunity to take on a new clinical role as the integrator of all that digital pathology information, in combination with the patient’s other clinical data collected from a wide variety of sources.” —Dirk G. Soenksen, M.S., M.B.A., Founder…
Consequences of Underfunding Lab Test Services
HOW LONG CAN IT TAKE FOR A HEALTHCARE SYSTEM to underfund clinical lab testing and anatomic pathology services before this ongoing financial erosion becomes visible in the form of systemic quality problems with lab tests? I believe the United States is now on the path to learning the answer to this …
Why Canada Has Growing Shortage of Pathologists
CEO SUMMARY: In Canada, it is known that the supply of pathologists and laboratory physicians has diminished since 1998. Further, a federal program that measures patient wait times for certain surgical and imaging procedures does not measure how long patients wait for ana…
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