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Workers Use AI More than Lab Leaders Do
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 ex...
Leveraging Data to Create Lab and Healthcare Efficiencies
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 diagnostic data t...
Economic and Tech Changes Drive Lab Concerns
CEO SUMMARY: Uncertainty around tariffs, future regulations, and artificial intelligence (AI) defined the mood at the 2025 Executive War College, where nearly 1,000 lab leaders gathered. Speakers warned of how stagnant healthcare spending could trickle down to labs. Meanwhile, attendees...
With LDT Rule Vacated, Labs Await FDA Response
In a major win for clinical laboratories, a federal judge vacated the FDA’s final rule on LDTs, writing in his decision that the agency overstepped its authority. For now, labs can develop and modify LDTs without FDA oversight, but future action in some form is likely. In part one of ...
The Role of Price Transparency During Pathology Contract Talks
Pathology groups have a much better opportunity to turn the tables on payers and other third parties during contract negotiations if they come armed with the data and other information recommended by two well-respected pathology experts. In this final installment of our four-part series...
Medical Robotics Developer Believes It’s Time to Transform Phlebotomy
Phlebotomy and collection of veinous blood is one important procedure in clinical laboratory testing that continues to be primarily a manual process. That is about to change. Netherlands-based Vitestro has obtained a CE mark in the European Union for its novel autonomous robotic phlebotomy device (AR...
Why Labs Should Comply with the FDA’s Final Rule on LDTs
On April 29, 2024, the Food and Drug Administration released its final rule on regulation of laboratory developed tests (LDTs). Since then, clinical laboratories have grappled with questions surrounding compliance, while hoping that courts will step in and prevent the rule from taking effect. Now,...
OIG Issues New Report on Medicare 2023 Lab Spending
WITHIN THE LATEST REPORT ON MEDICARE PART A CLINICAL LABORATORY SPENDING during 2023 is information about the financial impact that price cuts to the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) have had on clinical laboratories. As mandated by the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (PAMA), the rep...
Pathologist Asks ChatGPT, Google Notebook to Predict LDT Trial Outcome
On his blog last month, pathologist Bruce Quinn, MD, PhD, published the answers provided by two artificial intelligence chatbots after he asked each to analyze the legal briefs submitted to federal courts in Texas where lab plaintiffs are challenging the FDA’s laboratory developed test (LDT) final ...
Top 10 Lab Stories for 2024 Do Reflect Important Trends
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 final rule. However, ...
Don’t Be at the Mercy of the Tumultuous Healthcare Revolution
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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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