November 13, 2018 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXV No. 16 – November 13, 2018 Issue

In recent weeks, Apple signed agreements with the nation’s two largest lab companies to make their lab test data available on Apple’s Health Record app. Laboratory Corporation of America was first to announce its agreement with Apple on Oct. 29. Quest Di…

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November 24, 2014 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXI No.16 – November 24, 2014 Issue

Interesting things are unfolding in San Diego with Pathway Genomics, a company with a CLIA lab that offers genetic testing to physicians. On November 12, it was announced that the IBM Watson Group had invested in Pathway Genomics. The two companies said that they are…

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UCLA, Centre to Open Lab in China to Offer High Quality Testing

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXI No. 7 – May 19, 2014 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: To fill the unmet demand for quality clinical laboratory testing in China, a partnership between pathologists at UCLA and Centre Testing International Corp. of Shenzen have built and will operate a lab facility in Shanghai. The new lab will open by late September and…

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Pathologists Can Offer ‘Companion Informatics’

By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XIX No. 9 – June 25, 2012 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Community hospitals are recognizing increased interest in personalized medicine among consumers. One expert predicts that this will create opportunities for hospital labs and pathology groups to add value by offering subspecialty expertise in molecular diagnostics, genetic te…

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“Primary-Care Pathology” One Goal at Beth Israel

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 15 – October 25, 2010 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: In a pioneering collaboration, the pathology department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, will work with GenomeQuest, Inc., to perform whole genome sequencing of tumor specimens. GenomeQuest will handle sequencing, assembly, and annota…

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SC Pathologists Question Legality of TC/PC in State

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 10 – July 12, 2010 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Recently the South Carolina Society of Pathologists (SCSP) requested that the state’s Board of Medical Examiners review the legality, under state law, of certain technical component/professional component (TC/PC) arrangements between referring physicians and pathol…

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Pathology Errors in Canada Make National News Once Again

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVII No. 4 – March 8, 2010 Issue

YET ONE MORE TIME, pathology errors are making national headlines in Canada. News of errors by a surgeon and a pathologist in a Windsor, Ontario, hospital caught provincial health officials off balance. The simple story is that an experienced surgeon at 305-bed Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital …

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DC Area Labs Busy Hiring Subspecialist Pathologists

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XVI No. 15 – November 02, 2009 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: When a mass exodus of at least 15 civilian subspecialist pathologists left the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) to join the newly-formed American International Pathology Laboratories (AIPL) in September, it triggered a number of consequences for both labs, …

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Inaccurate Lab Results: What Happened in Canada?

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XVI No. 7 – May 18, 2009 Issue

MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE WIDELY-PUBLICIZED PROBLEMS with laboratory testing in several locations across Canada in the past few years. We update the situation with a fascinating intelligence briefing on pages 9-12. The first lab scandal to catch the public’s attention was the discovery that…

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Many Trends in AP Spell Lots of Change Ahead

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIII No. 2 – February 6, 2006 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Every second year, THE DARK REPORT releases its list of key trends in anatomic pathology. These trends help shape an understanding about the state of the pathology profession. Our current list includes 11 identifiable trends. This is not an auspicious sign for pathologists wh…

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