Real-time insights enable laboratories to be more proactive, strategic, and responsive in managing their staffing needs and mitigating the impact of market forces affecting labor shortages.
The 17% increase is the largest jump since OIG began tracking lab spending in 2014. This increase was due to higher volume for three test types: Covid-19 tests, genetic tests and chemistry tests.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
With the projection that the U.S. may spend up to $27.9 billion annually on low-value screening, testing, and procedures considered waste, there needs to be a new approach to how the lab industry develops test menus from which physicians order labs.
As the U.S. healthcare industry continues to advance value-based care and population health, lab testing price transparency and payment integrity programs should be a priority.
Walmart's partnership with Health at Scale is meant to connect employees and their families with health providers who can best care for them. The retail giant's collaboration with Quest Diagnostics is aimed at increasing consumer access to high-quality lab tests.
Truepill, the company operating behind-the-scenes to help digital health companies with pharmacy fulfillment and telehealth visits, has added a third feature: at home testing. CEO Umar Afridi hopes the trio of services will create a seamless experience for most people’s basic health needs.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Truepill, the startup behind direct-to-consumer health brands like Hims and Nurx, plans to expand into lab testing. The startup raised $75 million in a series C funding round.
Doctor on Demand will utilize the Change Healthcare Intelligent Healthcare Network to give telemedicine patients more power over when and where their lab work is done.
The site will return a list of nearby labs that are in the patient’s insurance network, and the test can then be scheduled online.
The company makes oral cancer testing products using biomarkers that might lead to earlier detection of the disease.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
An Austin, Texas-based startup is hoping to capitalize on a gap in the home lab test market by offering three new diagnostic tests, each for less than $100.
The lab giant will provide diagnostic testing services at Quest-branded Patient Services Centers next to the pharmacies at 12 Safeway stores in five states. Presumably, these will occupy spaces originally built for Theranos labs.
Lab tests provide impact more than 70 percent of medical decisions and comprise upwards of 80 percent of a patient’s EMR.
The report lists obvious choices like Quest Diagnostics, LabCorp and 23andMe - and deigns to include even Theranos, despite its recent spate of bad PR.