Clinical Lab Management
News on issues related to managing clinical laboratories.
Labcorp, GeneCentric Partnering on Development of RNA-Based Cancer Diagnostics
The parties will use retrospective analyses of Labcorp samples, and Labcorp will deploy tests produced through the project to academic and community cancer centers.
EU IVDR Implementation Woes Could Severely Limit Cancer Companion Test, Precision Therapy Access
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The EC has stuck with its timeline to implement the new regulations in eight months, raising concerns for cancer patients' ability to receive biomarker testing and treatments.
Lab Owner Pleads Guilty to $73M Scheme to Defraud Medicare
The scheme involved paying kickbacks to a telemedicine company in exchange for authorizations by doctors for medically unnecessary genetic testing.
Tesis Labs, Personal Genome Diagnostics Ink Market Access Partnership
The companies are joining forces to develop new genomic tests for cancer patients that combine somatic and germline variant results.
Quest Diagnostics, Paige Collaborate on Pathology Software for Cancer, Other Diseases
The partners will develop new software products for providers to aid in disease diagnosis. Solid tumor cancers will be the initial focus of the collaboration.