Survey Indicates Zoomers and Millennials Are Ready for Pharmacies to Play a Bigger Role in Their Primary Care
Demand for low cost, convenient access to doctors and drugs is driving transformation to decentralized medical care, and retail pharmacy chains see opportunity in offering primary care services Retail pharmacies and pharmacists continue to play a growing role in...
Kaufman Hall Report Says Hospitals Saw Less Inpatients and Outpatients during Summer as Bad Debt and Charity Care Rose
As a result, health system-based clinical laboratories likely saw a decline in test orders as well a decrease in outreach revenue Bad financial news continues in the hospital industry. According to an August 2023 National Hospital Flash Report from consulting firm...
BioReference Laboratories’ Unique Journey during the COVID-19 Pandemic Described in ‘Swab,’ a New Book by former BRLI CEO Jon Cohen, MD
Certainly every clinical laboratory in the United States has a unique story about dealing with the challenges of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, but only BioReference did testing for multiple professional sports leagues and the cruise ship industry Few would challenge the...
UK Researchers Create Conductive Thread That Can Be Woven into Clothing to Monitor Key Health Biomarkers
Meet ‘PECOTEX,’ a newly-invented cotton thread with up to 10 sensors that is washable. Its developers hope it can help doctors diagnosis disease and enable patients to monitor their health conditions Wearable biosensors continue to be an exciting area of research and...
Northwestern University Study Shares News Insights into Aging Guided by Transcriptome, Gene Length Imbalance
Findings could lead to deeper understanding of why we age, and to medical laboratory tests and treatments to slow or even reverse aging Can humans control aging by keeping their genes long and balanced? Researchers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois,...
Major Breakthrough in Human Genome Sequencing, as Full Y Chromosome Sequencing Completed after a More than 20 Year Journey
Clinical laboratories and pathology groups may soon have new assays for diagnosis, treatment identification, patient monitoring It’s here at last! The human Y chromosome now has a full and complete sequence. This achievement by an international team of genetic...
Retail Pharmacies Are Working with Pharmaceutical Companies to Recruit and Enroll Patients in Decentralized Clinical Trials
This trend, which began during the COVID-19 pandemic, may bypass those clinical laboratories and pathology groups that recruit patients for clinical trials, but increase the diversity of the pool of study participants National retail pharmacy chains are seeking new...
CMS Proposes New Amendments to Federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule That May Affect Clinical Laboratories and Pathology Groups
Proposal comes as patient advocacy group reports poor compliance by hospitals with the federal price transparency regulation; AHA pushes back Recent data compiled by Patient Rights Advocate, a non-profit group dedicated to nationwide healthcare transparency, appears...
Calgary’s Long Clinical Laboratory Waits at Patient Service Centers Prompt Alberta Health Services to Add Extra Appointments, Temporary Locations
As patients and staff suffer with lengthening wait times, critics claim proposed solutions won’t remedy the ailing system of collecting medical laboratory specimens With a backlog of lab appointments and a plethora of long wait times for phlebotomy services in the...
NHS Trial Analysis Finds That Grail’s Galleri Clinical Laboratory Blood Test Can Detect 50 Cancers and Identify the Location of the Cancer
Though a ‘work in progress,’ the Oxford researchers who conducted the trail believe the MCED blood test could help doctors give better cancer assessments Cancer is typically diagnosed through tissue biopsies that are often invasive and painful for patients. Now,...
Scientists and Medical Professionals Face Huge Fees, Court Costs after Speaking at Certain COVID-19 Webinars
Little-known Polish company relied on suspect arbitration court to demand thousands of euros from conference speakers Clinical laboratory and pathology professionals may want to heed the phrase “caveat emptor” ("let the buyer beware") if invited to speak at events...
Researchers Find AI Improves Breast Cancer Detection by 20%
Initial analyses also shows AI screening lowers associated radiologist image reading workload by half Both radiologists and pathologists analyze images to make cancer diagnoses, although one works with radiological images and the other works with tissue biopsies as...
Amazon Expands Its Virtual Primary Care Service, including Clinical Laboratory Testing, to All 50 States along with More Locations for One Medical Clinics
Consumer demand for telehealth services and convenient healthcare locations fuels Amazon’s quest to ‘reinvent’ healthcare Amazon’s stated goal of disrupting traditional healthcare processes and workflow continues. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon built several...
Study Finds Smartphones Can Be as Accurate as Pulse Oximeters at Reading Blood-Oxygen Saturation
Technology could enable patients to monitor their own oxygen levels and transmit that data to healthcare providers, including clinical laboratories Clinical laboratories may soon have a new data point to add to their laboratory information system (LIS) for doctors to...
California’s Statute Restricting Use of Moniker ‘Doctor’ to Only Physicians and Surgeons Challenged by Nurse Practitioners in Court Case
Plaintiffs claim state is criminalizing speaking the truth about their earned advanced degrees Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) is the highest degree that can be acquired by a nurse practitioner (NP). But can NPs who achieve this degrees call themselves doctors?...
UCSF Researchers Discover Mutated Gene That Fights SARS-CoV-2 Even in Individuals with No Exposure to the Coronavirus
Findings may help clinical laboratories identify healthcare workers who could work on the front lines of the next pandemic without fear of serious infection University of California San Francisco researchers have discovered a gene mutation that enables some people’s...
Researchers Use Ingestible Device to Non-Invasively Sample Human Gut Bacteria in a Development That Could Enable More Clinical Laboratory Testing of Microbiomes
Technology enables sampling of an individual’s microbiome over time to observe changes associated with different illnesses or different diets There is now a pill-sized device that can non-invasively collect and deliver a sample of gut bacteria taken directly from...
COVID-19 Test Sales Fall Nearly 90% at Abbott in Q2, a Clear Marker to Clinical Laboratories That the Pandemic Has Passed
Sales of SARS-CoV-2 tests at other IVD companies, including Roche Diagnostics and Danaher’s lab businesses also report declines in COVID-19 test revenue Clinical laboratory leaders and pathologists seeking a marker that the COVID-19 pandemic has passed may have it in...
Genetic Testing of Wastewater Now Common in Detecting New Strains of COVID-19 and Other Infectious Diseases
Advances in genome sequencing give virologists and microbiologists new tools for tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants to their sources Wastewater surveillance has emerged as an essential tool in the detection and tracking of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus within communities....
Stanford Genetic Researcher Discusses Value of Rapid Whole Human Genome Sequencing in Pursuit of a Faster, More Accurate Diagnosis and Treatment Plan
Genetic scientists show how rapid WGS is helping doctors determine best treatments for patients with life-threatening conditions Clinical laboratory scientists will recall that last year, Dark Daily covered how researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine had...
Medical Laboratory Workers Again on Strike at Large Clinical Laboratory Company Locations around New Zealand
Strike may delay critical blood testing and cause postponement of many surgical procedures Medical technicians, phlebotomists, and clinical laboratory scientists in New Zealand are once again going on strike for fairer pay in various areas around the island nation....
Australian Medical Laboratory Worker Who Allegedly Swapped Tissue Samples to Damage Co-Worker’s Reputation Now ‘Banned for Life’ from Providing Health Services
Australian government rules lab employee’s rogue actions jeopardized patient care In an example of “if something can go wrong in the lab, it will,” a senior histology laboratory worker at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia, has been banned for life from...
Health Officials and Clinical Labs Gear Up to Deal with Another ‘Tripledemic’
In preparing to deal with outbreaks of three different respiratory viruses, measures include newly approved vaccines for RSV and reformulated COVID-19 shots Clinical laboratories are the frontline of testing for respiratory infections, and as such, were heavily...
San Francisco International Airport First in the Nation to Test Wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus
In partnership with the CDC, the collected samples will be sent to approved clinical laboratories for testing as a way to monitor for traces of the SARS-CoV-2 virus Microbiologists and virologists engaged in tracing sources of viral infections will be interested to...
Some Experts Predict That Nonprofit Healthcare Models Will Not Survive Healthcare’s Transformation
As mergers and acquisitions of large-scale hospital systems continue, their clinical laboratories feel the pressure of deteriorating finances and ongoing staff shortages Eroding economics is often the major reason why a health system agrees to be acquired or merged....
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