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Federal Court Reverses Conviction in AKS Case
Nuances of decision-making played a large role in appeals court ruling in favor of business owner
CEO SUMMARY: A federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of an operator of a durable medical equipment company who was accused of violating the Anti-Kickback Statute. A marketing company’s lack of true influence over decision-making related to the case seemed t...
UnitedHealth Group Heads into Difficult Waters Mid-Year
CEO shakeup is the latest issue the company, which is parent to a large private payer, has tackled
WITH THE NEWS THAT THE FORMER HEAD OF UNITEDHEALTH GROUP (UHG) has returned after the sudden resignation of the company’s CEO, it is apparent that pressure on the healthcare company continues to mount. This latest twist comes on top of a bad...
Labs Beware: ‘Vishing’ Rises as Major Cybersecurity Threat
These sophisticated attacks often impersonate an organization’s IT support team
CYBERSECURITY SHOULD ALWAYS BE TOP OF MIND FOR CLINICAL LABORATORIES AND PATHLOGY groups, especially since the notorious data breach at Change Healthcare in February 2024. Often, such security breaches begin with phishing campaigns in which employees are enticed to click on malicious li...
Epic Gains EHR Market Share as Oracle Loses Ground
Electronic health record sellers have strong interest in clinical lab test data within their systems
EPIC SYSTEMS, THE DOMINANT VENDOR OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS (EHR) SOFTWARE, expanded its market share in 2024, gaining a net 176 hospitals and 29,399 beds. That’s according to KLAS Research, which based its data on interviews with hospitals as well as other sources, including the v...
Leveraging Data to Create Lab and Healthcare Efficiencies
Newsmaker Inverview
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...
Elizabeth Holmes’ Partner Sought Campaign to Get Her Out of Jail
Meanwhile, a marketing expert flogs Billy Evans for allowing his startup to step into the shadow of Holmes
IN A BRIEF MENTION THAT WENT LARGELY UNNOTICED, a well-known marketing professor said he declined a request by Billy Evans—the partner of disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes—to help organize an effort to get Holmes out of prison. “[Evans] reached out t...
Others Want Diagnostic Data, Labs Should Too
ONE NEED NOT LOOK FURTHER THAN THE PAGES OF THIS ISSUE OF THE DARK REPORT to once again realize the importance of the diagnostic data residing within your clinical laboratory operations. Perhaps it’s rote to say “diagnostic data is a gold mine” for labs. But if all labs truly acted on that notion, wouldn’t everyone be earnin...
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