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FREE 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.
read more3 Critical Rules for Surviving in 2017: Your Medical Laboratory’s Guide to Thriving in Today’s Healthcare Landscape
With less revenue flowing from reimbursements and more consumers footing the bill for diagnostic testing, counterbalancing lost revenue while better serving providers and patients is not an option—it is a must. The Dark Report is pleased to offer this FREE White Paper, exploring three critical rules innovative medical laboratories must take into account to combat new and drastic changes occurring in the lab industry, and outlining proactive steps that when taken, will serve as the foundation for clinical success in 2017 and beyond.
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Ativa Medical Developing Blood/Sample Testing Device to Provide Rapid Analyses at the Point of Care; Hopes to Avoid Comparisons with Theranos’ Technology
Minnesota startup’s ‘breakthrough’ technology aims to deliver point-of-care blood and urine test results within minutes for an estimated $8/single-use test cartridge Less than a year has passed since blood-testing company Theranos dissolved and saw its top two...
read moreSwiss Post Medical Drone Carrying Clinical Laboratory Specimens Crashes in Switzerland
Crash into Lake Zurich of American-made drone carrying blood specimens is first setback for pioneering Swiss Post medical drone program Medical drones shuttling clinical laboratory specimens across open terrain is an exciting reality that Dark Daily has reported on in...
read moreJohns Hopkins Researchers Look at Exosomes to Deliver Drug Therapies in the Human Body
Targeted delivery of drugs to specific cells could usher in a new era of precision medicine pharmaceutical therapies while creating new biomarkers for clinical laboratory testing Scientists at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine believe exosomes may hold the...
read moreUniversity of Georgia Researchers Develop Algorithm That Determines Source of Salmonella Bacteria Based on Its Genomes
Microbiologists may soon have a new tool to identify sources of infections in humans and track infections across patient populations Researchers at the University of Georgia Center for Food Safety have developed an algorithm that can identify genetic variations in...
read moreUniversity of California San Diego Researchers Demonstrates How Easily Medical Laboratory Systems and Devices Can Be Compromised, Putting Patient Lives at Risk
Researchers stress the importance of preparing hospital and clinical laboratory information systems before a ‘major failure’ occurs Medical laboratory information systems (LIS) and similar devices are vulnerable to hacking, according to physicians and computer...
read moreFDA Approves Smartphone-based Urinalysis Test Kit for At-Home Use That Matches Quality of Clinical Laboratory Tests
Mobile technology continues to bring clinical-grade medical laboratory testing into patients’ homes, as more do-it-yourself kits receive FDA approval Recently, the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a smartphone-based at-home urine test that enables...
read moreMax Planck Institute Scientists Develop Molecular Biosensor Assay That Enables Paper-based Fingerprick Test for Measuring Metabolites in Blood
A digital camera or smartphone visualizes bioluminescent characteristics of test sample to display levels of Phe in blood, potentially giving medical laboratories a way to support home-based or point of care metabolite tests Clinical laboratories may soon have a new...
read moreHigh-Deductible Health Insurance Plans are Turning Providers into Bill Collectors and They’re Not Happy About It
Popularity of Medicare Advantage Plans fuels influx of new companies into the marketplace with anticipated enrollment of more than 22.6 million beneficiaries, or more than one-third of Medicare-eligible consumers Provide care or pursue payment. Until recently those...
read moreScientific Paper on Private Equity Ownership in Dermatology is Removed from Peer-Reviewed Medical Journal’s Website After Dermatologists Complain
The paper’s authors stand by their research and claim “requested corrections” were to protect reputations and not correct inaccuracies Private equity companies have invested in and acquired clinical laboratories and anatomic pathology groups for the past 25 years....
read moreEHRs Still Cost Millions and Can Contribute to Physician Burnout; Hospital Laboratories Caught in the Middle
As hospitals and health networks struggle to implement EHRs and comply with federal regulations, medical laboratories have their own struggles fulfilling orders while dealing with physician burnout Ever since 2009, when the federal government’s electronic health...
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PAMA in 2019: What Labs Need to Know to Collect Data, Report on Time and Avoid $10,000 per day Penalties
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Performance Coaching and Management Observations to Improve Productivity and Efficiency: Strengthening the Skills of Management to Execute a Lean Lab Transformation
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Make Your Lab Assessment Ready in 2019: Know the Most-Common Deficiencies in Accreditation and Certification and What to Expect in the Future
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2018 Lab Quality Confab Audio Recordings
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What lab leaders need to know to prepare for evolving payer behavior, audits, programs and policies
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The Pathway to Driving Valuation for Your Laboratory: Your Roadmap to Achieving Success, and How to Sustain Growth Despite a Changing Lab Environment
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2018 Executive War College Audio Recordings
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