The 5 Operational Levers That Protect Lab Profit Margins When Volume Drops
Labs across the country ended 2025 in a financial squeeze that is impossible to ignore. A proposed 3.4% CMS fee reduction is colliding with aggressive...
7 Lab Industry Trends Shaping The Next Three Years for US Clinical Labs
According to SNS Insider, the US clinical diagnostics market hit $26.4 billion in 2025 and continues to grow at a CAGR of 5.50%. But market...
LIMS Pricing Demystified: What Your LIMS Vendor Quoted & What You’ll Actually Pay
That headline number on the vendor proposal is not the cost of your LIMS. It is the cost of getting started with it. The real...
AI in Pathology Is Not Coming for Humans, It Is Coming for Labs That Refuse to Upgrade
The pathology labs winning right now are not the ones with the most FTEs. They are the ones with the best infrastructure, equipped with clean...
Dirty Secret of the $300Bn Lab Industry: Most Labs are Still Running on Decade-Old Infrastructure
The clinical laboratory industry is projected to cross $308 billion by 2033. Clearly, it is not a niche industry quietly working in the background. It...
The Clinical Buyer’s Guide for Selecting the Right Laboratory Billing Software
Lab directors who treat billing as an operational afterthought consistently collect less than they earn. The gap between what a clinical lab bills and what...
Calculating The True Cost of Server Downtime and Slow TATs for Enterprise-Scale Diagnostic Labs
For years, lab leaders have defended legacy on-premise LIS on one number: the annual maintenance fee(AMF, also known as charges, AMC). That number is real....
EHR Integration: Why Standalone Laboratory Portals Are Obsolete
When a physician orders a lab test, they’re not just requesting data. They’re waiting on information that will lead to a clinical decision, whether to...