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FREE SPECIAL EDITION WHITE PAPER | Patient Access Antidote: Retaining More Revenue with Front-End Solutions
Healthcare delivery and reimbursement models have undergone a paradigm shift; specifically, patient financial liability has significantly affected clinical laboratories and pathology groups, changing the way our businesses operate. In order to profitably provide care, it has been crucial for labs to modernize their collection practices—yet many struggle to do so.
With proper focus on front-end patient access management, labs and pathology groups become better equipped to optimize their cash flow and successfully meet their key revenue cycle objectives—a critical achievement for the financially-healthy, high-performing lab organization.
read moreFREE SPECIAL EDITION WHITE PAPER How to Create a Patient-centered Lab with Breakthrough Blood Collection Technology: Microsampling takes blood collection out of the clinic
Breakthrough methods in blood collection technology have the ability to expedite your lab’s move to patient-centered care, as well as answer the challenges of changing remote patient requirements. The Dark Report is pleased to offer this FREE White Paper, an ideal resource for those interested in new microsampling technology—what it is, how it works, and how it can transform your lab.
read moreHow Next-Generation Sequencing Helps Molecular Laboratories Deliver Personalized Medicine Services to their Client Physicians
Personalized and predictive medicine are rapidly becoming a reality. As a result, your clinical diagnostic laboratory’s need for a laboratory information management system (LIMS) designed to accommodate personalized medicine’s informatics integration and workflow challenges has become vital. The Dark Report is pleased to offer this FREE White Paper, providing a detailed discussion on how you can unlock the potential of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology in your lab, and the benefits and contributions it can make to add clinical value and improve patient care.
read moreThe Laboratory Executive’s Guide to Maximizing Revenue & Valuation: Effective Revenue Cycle and Compliance Management are Critical Success Factors
The laboratory business continues to face consolidation and margin pressure, with far fewer independent labs now than just a decade ago. A laboratory’s financial success and valuation is all about top line revenue, profitability, and minimizing risk— elements that can be positively impacted by state-of-the-art revenue cycle management. Oversight of the entire revenue cycle, by conducting a constant and consistent analysis of the front-to-back end revenue processes through specific tools and workflows, can maximize the efficiency and adaptability of all of the components of the revenue cycle process to net the greatest return.
read moreThe Path to More Revenue: Cloud-Based LIMS, Mobile Apps, and Point-of-Care Telehealth
The performance capability of your laboratory’s LIS goes way beyond its ability to participate in these new value-based care initiatives—the right LIS is critical to your practice to ensure success and increased revenue.
read moreA Lab Leader’s Guide To Pharmacogenomic Testing (PGx)
The Dark Report is pleased to offer this FREE White Paper, providing an enlightening overview of pharmacogenomic testing and how PGx fits into current healthcare goals, a discussion of the obstacles healthcare providers, institutions and clinical diagnostic laboratories face in entering the pharmacogenomic testing market, and examples of how a cloud-based, Software-as-a-Service platform can help healthcare providers overcome those obstacles.
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Latest AMA Benchmark Survey Shows Number of Physicians Employed by Health Networks Now Exceeds Those in Independent Practice
As physicians continue to re-evaluate their career strategies, clinical laboratories must closely monitor changes to test ordering from formerly self-employed doctors For the first time, more doctors are employed by health networks than are in private practice. That’s...
read moreJAMA Study Shows American’s with Primary Care Physicians Receive More High-Value Care, Even as Millennials Reject Traditional Healthcare Settings
Clinical laboratories that help patients access care more quickly could prevent declines in test orders and physician referrals Millennials are increasingly opting to visit urgent-care centers and walk-in healthcare clinics located in retail establishments. And those...
read moreCalifornia Healthline Report Finds Hospital Chargemaster Prices Fluctuate Dramatically Even Among Hospitals Located Near Each Other
Though federal law requires hospitals to publicly display their prices, including their medical laboratory test prices, the information can be confusing, hard to find, and overwhelmingly complex Hospital chargemaster prices can vary dramatically among hospitals that...
read moreDamo Consulting Survey Predicts Future Health Network Spending Will Primarily be on Improving EHRs; Could be Positive Development for Medical Laboratories
Survey shows healthcare providers plan to wait for AI and digital health technologies to mature before making major investments in them Clinical laboratories must develop strategies for connecting to their client doctors’ electronic health record (EHR) systems. Thus,...
read moreInnovative Programs by Geisinger Health and Kaiser Permanente Are Moving Providers in Unexplored Directions in Support of Proactive Clinical Care
These initiatives are a call-to-action for clinical laboratories to contribute their expertise in support of wellness programs Two of the largest healthcare systems in America are moving in non-traditional directions to proactively address certain healthcare...
read moreMultiomics Genetic Research May Give Clinical Laboratories New Capabilities in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancers in Children
Three-platform genetic sequencing offers hope for improved pediatric oncology diagnostics and precision medicine therapies Dark Daily has long predicted that multiomics will someday play an important role in clinical laboratory diagnostic medicine. Now, new research...
read moreAspenti Health Takes Home Grand Prize in Nation’s First Clinical Lab 2.0 ‘Shark Tank’ Competition Showcasing Added-Value Clinical Success Stories
Vermont-based clinical laboratory company integrates social determinants of health (SDH) with lab data to help doctors at University of Vermont Health Network better manage their opioid patients Aspenti Health, a full-service diagnostic laboratory specializing in...
read moreResearchers at Massachusetts General Hospital Identify Ways That CRISPR DNA Base Editors Sometimes Unintentionally Alter RNA
These “off-target” genetic alterations demonstrate that certain CRISPR base editors need further refinement in a research finding of interest to pathologists Could CRISPR DNA-editing technology unintentionally effect RNA as well? A new study conducted at Massachusetts...
read moreMIT Researchers Link Acidic Environments to Cancer Tumor Growth and Invasion of Healthy Tissue; Might Be Useful Diagnostic Element for Pathologists
Methods that target the causes of acidity could become part of precision medicine cancer treatments and therapies Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found that acidic environments enable tumor cells to strengthen through protein...
read moreMedical Genome Reference Bank Uses Whole-Genome Sequencing to Add 4,000 Healthy Older Adults to Its Huge Database
The resulting genomic dataset may provide useful diagnostic insights that can be used by clinical laboratory and pathology professionals to learn how and why some people age with good health Why do some seniors age in good health and other seniors suffer with multiple...
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Webinar | Proposed Changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Lab’s Revenue and Preserve Profitability
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Webinar DVD | Using Lab 2.0 to Combat Opioid-use Disorder: Lessons Learned and What Comes Next in Improving Patient Outcomes and Cost of Care
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Listen. Learn. Lead. Uncover Ways YOU Can Position Your Lab as a Strategic Pillar of the Healthcare Organization
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Webinar | Supporting Integrated Patient Care by Moving Tests Out of the Core Lab and into Physicians’ Offices: Lessons from HealthPartners’ Experience
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2019 Executive War College Audio Recordings
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Are You Ready for EKRA? What You Need to Know Now About How this New Legislation Affects Your Lab
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Boost Your Advanced Technology Laboratory’s Revenue Through the Effective Use of Data Analytics
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