Optum Adds Gestalt to Its Digital Diagnostic Suite

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 3 – February 17, 2025 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: This development signals Optum’s intent to be a player in digital pathology. Its deal with Gestalt Diagnostics adds a pathology solution to Optum’s existing suite of cloud-based services for managing digital images generated by cardiology, radiology, and hematology-oncolo…

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Market Speaks to Pathologists: It’s About Data

By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXXII, No. 3 – February 17, 2025 Issue

ONE PRIMARY TREND IN THE U.S. HEALTHCARE SYSTEM over the past 20 years deals with how patient data is created and used. Ongoing advances in information technology and the Internet—now commonly called “the cloud”—have created capabilities for data sharing and data analysis today that were unim…

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Optum Adds Gestalt to Its Digital Diagnostic Suite

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXII, No. 3 – February 17, 2025 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: This development signals Optum’s intent to be a player in digital pathology. Its deal with Gestalt Diagnostics adds a pathology solution to Optum’s existing suite of cloud-based services for managing digital images generated by cardiology, radiology, and hematology-oncolo…

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Owens & Minor Sues Anthem BCBS of Virginia

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 17 – December 16, 2024 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: For years, clinical laboratories and pathology groups have expressed frustration with the lack of transparency by health plans in how they handle claims, set prices, and establish coverage guidelines. Now, because of recent federal laws and rules concerning health data transp…

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Top 10 Lab Stories for 2024 Reflect Important Trends

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 17 – December 16, 2024 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Most clinical laboratory managers will agree that the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) final rule to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) is the biggest lab industry story for 2024. Every laboratory performing LDTs must now devote money and time to comply with the…

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Change Healthcare Cyberattack Involved 100 Million Americans

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI No. 15 – November 4, 2024 Issue

AFTER EXPERIENCING WHAT MANY CYBERSECURITY EXPERTS consider to be one of the largest, most disruptive ransomware attacks ev…

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New CISA Draft Rule Mandates Rapid Reporting of Cyberattacks

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 7 – May 20, 2024 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: There is another federal rule that will require compliance by clinical labs. An agency of U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security published a draft rule on April 4 that requires certain organizations—including hospitals, clinical labs, and pathology groups—to report, within 72 ho…

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Change Health Cyberattack Breaches PHI Here at TDR!

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 6 – April 29, 2024 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: It was Feb. 21 when cybercriminals attacked Change Healthcare’s claims processing systems. On April 22, UnitedHealth Group issued a statement that PHI for “a substantial proportion of people in America” was breached. We believe the PHI of our employees and T…

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UnitedHealth Group Faces DOJ Antitrust Probe

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 6 – April 29, 2024 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Recent events have not been kind to UnitedHealth Group and its subsidiaries UnitedHealthcare and Optum. In February, just as UHG’s Change Healthcare division was hit with a major cyberattack that disrupted billions of dolla…

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April 8, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXXI, No. 5 – April 8, 2024 Issue

UnitedHealth Group stated that the cyberattack against Change Healthcare, a business unit of UnitedHealth’s Optum division, disrupted processing of approximately $14 billion in claims. The company discovered the cyberattack on Feb. 21 and said it d…

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