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Innovation Showcased at Executive War College
CEO SUMMARY: This year’s Executive War College on Laboratory and Pathology Management proved to be a high-energy event. A record 900 attendees showed up and responded enthusiastically to visions and predictions of a post-COVID-19 healthcare system that hungers for large volumes of…
New Trends Reshaping Healthcare, Lab Testing
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March 14, 2022 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Telehealth proved to be popular with Medicare patients during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The federal U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reported telehealth visits for Medicare beneficiaries increased in 2020 by an incredible 63 times—from approximately 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 m…
Primary Care’s Shift to Telehealth and Pharmacies
Primary care patients are a major source of lab test referrals to the nation’s clinical laboratories. Until recent years, the typical primary care clinic was located in or near the medical campus of the local hospital and was probably owned by the doctors who staffed the clinic….
July 26, 2021 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
Intermountain Healthcare of Salt Lake City announced that it plans to close 25 of its 26 retail pharmacies as early as next month. It cited declining business and a new business arrangement with CVS Health, the national pharmacy chain. Daron Crowley, Intermountain’s media relations di…
Millennials’ Healthcare Demands Will Be Radically Different from Others
This is an excerpt of a 1.620-word article in the May 3, 2021 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: In just 42 months, Millennials will make up 75% of the workforce, according to U.S. Department of Co…
Millennials Set to Reorder Healthcare & Lab Testing
CEO SUMMARY: In just 42 months, Millennials will make up 75% of the workforce, according to U.S. Department of Commerce statistics. As consumers and patients, they are already triggering changes, reforms, and innovation in healthcare. It is timely for clinical lab administrators and…
Understanding COVID-19’s Changes to Lab Industry
CEO SUMMARY: With the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic about to enter its eighth month in the United States, it remains difficult to predict whether the pandemic will strengthen with the fall influenza season or steadily diminish. What is clear to most pathologists and clinical laboratory executiv…
COVID-19 Changes Lab and Pathology Profession
WE ARE ENTERING THE SEVENTH MONTH OF THE SARS-COV-2 OUTBREAK and some public health authorities predict that new cases of COVID-19 will continue through the fall and into 2021. If true, this will not be auspicious for the nation’s clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups. The curren…
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Volume XXXIII, No. 10 – August 2026
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