The United States Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) recently issued a “Special Fraud Alert” focusing on two potentially illegal trends that it has detected in arrangements between laboratories and ...

DANVILLE, PA. – Geisinger Medical Center's microbiology lab is the first in the U.S. to use a new automatic instrument that improves the quality and efficiency of specimen planting and streaking and ...

Through the acquisition of the Lab Systems division of Dynacon, a privately held corporation based in Ontario, Canada, BD adds innovative product platforms from a leader in preanalytical microbiology ...

Continuing the scrutiny of laboratory arrangements with referring physician practices, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced the settlement of False Claims Act allegations ...

June 11, 2012 While attending the 112th American Society for Microbiology General Meeting, COPAN is announcing strategic partnership with INPECO for the connection of its track system FlexLab 3.6 for ...

In a molecular diagnostic laboratory, having a system for tracking specimens, or assays, is integral to workflow efficiency and accuracy. Although streamlining this process often proves to be ...

Yaskawa Motoman, a global robotics manufacturer headquartered in Miamisburg, has introduced a new high-speed bulk sorter for high-volume commercial laboratories, company officials announced. The ...

Diagnostics, particularly blood cultures, play a key role in sepsis diagnosis. Best practices are well-known for collection, transport, and processing of blood cultures, but historically relatively ...

Clinical laboratories throughout North America and Europe have used the InocuLAB system routinely for nine years to successfully process more than 42 million specimens. The recently launched Innova ...