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Leveraging Data to Create Lab and Healthcare Efficiencies
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 8 – June 2, 2025 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In this exclusive interview with The Dark Report, Bradley Bostic, founder, chair, and CEO of healthcare and laboratory data intelligence company hc1 discusses trends in healthcare, how to position clinical laboratories as a strategic asset, and ways to analyze…
Federal Cases against Labs Result in Convictions
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 14 – October 14, 2024 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Over the past 24 months, federal prosecutors have announced a steady parade of criminal convictions, guilty pleas, and settlement agreements involving fraud and clinical laboratory testing. Not only are these cases numerous, but some resolve legal actions initiated by the fed…
“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…
Busy Year Demonstrated By Top Ten Lab Stories
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 17 – December 10, 2007 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: As it turns out, 2007 has been an action-packed year with lots of events, plenty of changes, and the promise of even faster evolution across all sectors of the lab testing marketplace. THE D…
Procter & Gamble Moves into the Neighborhood
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XIV No. 8 – June 4, 2007 Issue
LAST MONTH, A NEW RESIDENT BOUGHT INTO THE LABORATORY TESTING NEIGHBORHOOD. Procter & Gamble Company spent a third of a billion dollars to enter a joint venture with Inverness Medical Products, Inc., with the specific goal of selling diagnostic test kits to consu…
Inverness Buys Biosite, Has New Venture with P&G
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIV No. 8 – June 4, 2007 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: On the same day that Inverness Medical Innovations announced that it would acquire Biosite, thus beating out Beckman Coulter in the bidding war for Biosite, Inverness also announced that it had entered into a joint venture with Procter & Gamble. Together, the two companie…
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Volume XXXII, No. 9 – June 23, 2025
In part one of an analysis about the state of AI in clinical laboratories, The Dark Report explores how frontline workers, especially younger ones, are using AI tools like ChatGPT far more than lab leaders. Recent reports elsewhere in the business world show executives underestimate staff AI use, raising concerns about a leadership gap in tech adoption. Clinical lab leaders must get more familiar with AI use cases. Also, in this issue of The Dark Report, there is discussion on how Medicaid cuts may affect clinical labs, an examination of the lab industry fallout from CLIAC termination, an analysis of AMP’s reports that provide crucial insights for Hiring Managers, and notes that regional health systems are new dominant players in M&A.
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