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• R. Lewis Dark: Anatomic Pathology's Likely Path of Transformation
  
• Ireland Is Restructuring National Lab Test System
  
• Predict 60,000 Doctors To Adopt EMRs Each Year
  
• Two Big Pathology Groups Tap Investors for Capital
  
• Pathology Inc. Sells Equity to Raise Capital
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Lab Medicine's Potential Versus Its Challenges
  
• New Clinical Lab Trends To Shape Events in 2010
  
• LAB INDUSTRY MACRO TREND FOR CLINICAL LABORATORIES
  
No 1: Quality Management Systems Now an Option for Clinical Laboratories
No 2: More Labs Use Lean Six Sigma To Improve TAT, Performance
No 3: Work Flow and Work Processes Become a Management Driver
No 4: Automation Serves Lab Goals To Improve TAT, Quality, Service
No 5: Automation Is New Option In Micro, Histology, Molecular
No 6: Hospital Lab Outreach Programs Become Service-Rich Offerings
No 7: As Docs Adopt EMRs, Labs Offer E-Prescribing, Imaging Orders
No 8: EMR Funding Incentives Open Door to New Compliance Issues
No 9: Middleware Comes into Its Own And Gives Labs Extra Function
No 10: SaaS and Cloud Computing Gaining Acceptance by Laboratories

• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Lab Utilization Is Healthcare's Ticking Time Bomb
  
• 2009's Top Ten Lab Stories Reflect Some Good, Bad
  
• DNV Offers Accreditation For Both CMS and ISO
  
• Lab Briefs: DNA NANOCHIP IS GOAL OF IBM SCIENTISTS, QIAGEN NV POISED TO BECOME NEXT IVD FIRM TO TOP $1 BILLION DOLLARS, HEALTH INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET CHANGES PATIENT-DOCTOR TALKS
  
• The Dark Index: Laboratory Merger & Acquisitions Saw Several Deals during 2009
  
• Catholic Health Initiatives Ramps Up Lab Outreach
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: The $1,000 Genome and Laboratory Testing
  
• Costs Falling Swiftly for Whole Genome Sequence
  
• Explaining Certification Versus Accreditation
  
• Geisinger's Use of EHR Creates Opportunity for Lab to Add Value
  
• Molecular Update: "Liked the Product-Bought the Company," BD Acquires HandyLab and Jaguar System
  
• Health IT Update: Xerox, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard Each Buy Into IT Outsourcing Market
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: PAML's "Magic Touch" with Hospital Lab JVs
  
• Catholic Health Initiatives Signs Pact with PAML
  
• Health Info Exchange (HIE) Helps South Bend Lab
  
• New Privacy Breach Law Requires Labs to Respond
  
• Genomics Update: Physicians in Survey Recognize Lack of Genetic Test Knowledge
  
• DC Area Labs Busy Hiring Subspecialist Pathologists
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Why Choice is Important in Healthcare
  
• Catholic Health Initiatives Signs Pact with PAML
  
• Auckland Health Boards Give DML Some Testing
  
• Expert Says Time is Now For Labs to Adopt QMS
  
• Scripps' Tumor Board Finds Value in Digital Imaging of Slides
  
• Global Lab Update: Bureaucratic System in Ireland Affects Access to Pap Testing
  
• GSK and Abbott Team up For Companion Diagnostic
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Less Money for Labs Is International Trend
  
• Laboratory Test Fiasco Unfolding In Auckland, New Zealand
  
• Audacious Laboratory Contract Shows Downside Risks
  
• $750 Million Laboratory Test Tax Proposed in Senate Bill
  
• Textbook Marketing Fuels Demand for BRCA Test
  
• Clinical Study Update: Some Doctors Fail to Tell Patients About Critical Results 25% of Time
  
• Medicare Pays Doctors To Switch to E-Prescribing
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Pap Testing in Ireland & Massachusetts
  
• Bostwick Builds New Lab Around 25 Ex-AFIP Paths
  
• Lab Market Update: New Lab Company Is Launched By Geisinger Health System
  
• Irish Labs Appeal to Keep Pap Smear Expertise
  
• Using Lean to Cut Pap Test TAT Pays Off At Baystate Medical
  
• Third Laboratory Earns ISO 15189 Accreditation
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Getting Vitamin D Right for the Doctor and Patient
  
• Plain Talk about Current "Health Reform" Effort
  
• Using Lean at Henry Ford Transforms Pathology TAT
  
• Our Editor Gets His Vitamin D Test Results From 9 Different Labs
  
• New Lab Player Launches In Breast Cancer Market
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Vitamin D's Laboratory Magazine Trifecta
  
• All-Star Vitamin D Panel Looks at Lab Challenges
  
• UMass Lab's Experience With Vitamin D Methods
  
• Lab M&A Deals in June Show Market Direction
  
• New Flu Strain Expected In Upcoming Flu Season
  

• Elevating Lab Testing At Policymaking Table
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Why You Rely on a Vigilant Lab Industry Press
  
• Healthcare Reform and Threats to Lab Testing
  
• Lab Briefs: NEW PATHOLOGY LABS OPEN ON EAST COAST AND WEST COAST
  
• New Phlebotomist Policy Achieves Zero Error Rate
  
• DARK REPORT and Editor Michel Earn National Reporting Award
  

• Educated Consumers Buying 250-Bioassay Lab Test Panel
  
• Teamwork Between Labs Helped NYC Flu Response
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Dodging the A/H1N1 Influenza Bullet
  
• Influenza A/H1N1 Outbreak Offers Lessons for Labs
  
• CDC, Public Health Labs Added Flu Test Capacity
  
• Pathology Innovations: Using Cellphones Like Microscopes To Help Lesser-Developed Countries
  
• FDA Enforcement Update: 35 Firms Get FDA Warning Letters Regarding Various Swine Flu Claims
  

• Accreditation with DNV Helps Hospital Raise Inpatient Volume
  
• Lab Marketing Update: Mickey Mouse to Educate Kids About Allergy Lab Test Options
  
• Influenza A Test Is a Help When Screening for H1N1
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Inaccurate Lab Results: What Happened in Canada?
  
• Despite the Recession, Many Local Labs Thrive
  
• CMS Refuses to Return Competitive Bid Docs
  
• Pathology Innovations: Using Cellphones Like Microscopes To Help Lesser-Developed Countries
  
• ER/PR Testing in Canada Continues to Make News
  

• Biotech Start-Up Firms Hiring Lab Professionals
  
• New Report: POC Market Will Grow 30% by 2013
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: A Global Flu Emergency
  
• Puzzling New Flu Strain Causes Concern in Mexico
  
• Competitive Bidding Update: San Diego Labs Pursue Return of Bids from Medicare Officials
  
• Kaiser in Colorado Uses Lab Test Data to Improve Cardiac Care
  
• Why Wall Street Likes Histology Lab Business
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Expanding Lab Market Share in a Recession
  
• Attorney General Brown Sues Seven Calif. Labs
  
• Patient Safety Update: Diagnostic Errors Get Attention As Next Patient Safety Goal
  
• Warning: Three-Fold Rise In EMR Adoption Predicted
  
• LABORATORY BRIEFS: INVERNESS ACQUIRES TEST BUSINESS FROM ACON: MAKING LAB DATA "LIQUID" FOR ALL USERS
  
• Hey Doc! How Do You Rate With Zagat Health Survey?
  
• Medically Unlikely Edits Are Back and a Problem!
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Information is Power for Lab Leaders!
  
• Unprecedented Times Lie Ahead For Labs
  
• Lab Management Update: Cleveland Clinic Unveils Plan For New National Esoteric Lab
  
• Olympus Diagnostics Unit Sold to Beckman Coulter
  
• Boston's Beth Israel Scores Improvement Gains with Lean
  
• Aperio, Cerner Interface Digital Path and Path LIS
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Are Labs To Be Punished for Vitamin D Testing?
  
• Molecular Advances Soon To Reshape Anatomic Path
  
• Medicare Carrier Proposes No Pay for Vitamin D Test
  
• Ten Years Ago: Quest Diagnostics Agrees to Buy SmithKline Labs
  
• Local Labs Have Opportunities To Increase MC Patient Access
  
• Need Rigorous Validation For Home Brew Assays
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Lab Test Methodology and Widespread EMR Use
  
• When Does Cost Cutting Affect a Lab's Quality?
  
• Labs Need to Respond To Inaccurate Results
  
• Laboratory Industry Has Elephant in the Room
  
• Quest's Deficiencies Trigger QA/QC Questions
  
• Got a Lab Test Question? Call an ASCLS Lab Guru!
  
• Staunch Laboratory Advocate Retires After 31 Years of Service
  
• Denver's UniPath Sells Its Histo Labs to APP
  
• Did CMS Err in Issuing New Anti-Markup Rules?
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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• R. Lewis Dark: Primum non nocere, or: First, Do No Harm!
  
• Inaccurate Results + Quest Dominates News Cycle
  
• Labs Need to Respond To Inaccurate Results
  
• Dennis Monahan of ARUP Dies on Christmas Eve
  
• Lab Conserves Blood When Drawing Patients
  
• ASCP Awarded PEPFAR II Funds for Lab Assistance
  
• INTELLIGENCE: Late-Breaking Lab News
  
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