Monday, May 6, 2024

FDA Final LDT Rule: Federal Register, 160pp: Here's an Unlocked Copy, with AI Table of Contents

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 A few days ago, the FDA released a typescript version of its Lab Developed Tests final rule.  Now, on May 6, 2024, FDA has released the fin...
Sunday, May 5, 2024

Nerdy Blog: Gapfill 2024 & Algebra-AI for Genomic Sequencing Procedures (GSP)

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 A few days ago, I produced a fairly standard assessment of the 29 codes under the "Gapfill" process in 2024.  Find it here: https...
Friday, May 3, 2024

Real Humor: Pet Owners Told She Is Part Border Collie, Part Bulldog

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  See an open access article at DARK DAILY - Pet Owner Sends Her Own Cheek Swab Samples to a Pet DNA Testing Laboratory and Gets a Report Th...
Thursday, May 2, 2024

Karius Raises $100M; Genomic Diagnostics for Infectious Disease

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Over the past several years, benchmarks for molecular diagnostics funding have slipped from $100M-plus (sometimes called "the COVID bub...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

AI Corner: A ChatGPT "SWOT" Analysis of PathAI, and a Draft Biz School Case Study

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Today, Quest and PathAI announced a strategic acquisition of parts of PathAI by Quest, here . I gave ChatGPT4 a collection of recent PathAI ...

Brief Blog: Quest Acquires PathAI Diagnostics Service

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According to a May 1, 2024, press release, Quest Diagnostics will acquire PathAI Diagnostics to advance AI and digital pathology in cancer d...

CMS Releases Preliminary Gapfill Rates for CY2024; Opens Comment Period

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On May 1, 2024, CMS runs the new proposed gapfill rates up the Maypole to see what people think. The webpage for CLFS crosswalk and gapfill ...
Monday, April 29, 2024

FDA LDT Rule: Quest, Labcorp Stocks Pop Up to 5%

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The release of the final FDA regulation for reviewing and controlling LDT tests was released on April 29, 2024.  (Story here). LabCorp and Q...

AI Corner: Chat GPT Discusses FDA LDT Final Rule, "Healthcare Systems" Tests for Their Own Patients

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[Chat GPT; original article here .] [The FDA exemption below is somewhat similar to a similar pathway for in-house hospital testing in the E...

AI Corner: Chat GPT Discusses FDA LDT Rule With Regard to New York State Review

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In a final rule for regulation of LDTs, on April 29, 2024, FDA announced it would not require FDA review for LDTs reviewed and approved by ...

FDA Publishes Final Rule for LDT Regulation

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On Monday, April 29, 2024, the FDA released the final rule for its regulation of LDTs.   The rule had been released in proposed form for pub...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

AI Corner: SCITE.AI Auto-Generates Short Medical Articles with Clear Citations

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A year ago, the bad news around any AI-generated writing was hallucinations (such as made-up bibliography.)   The field moves fast and some ...

Two Links: on Physician Income; on Physician Industry Payments

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Two sources appeared almost at the same time, regarding physicians and finances. INCOMES Advisory Board issues a detailed report on 2023 phy...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Stanford Biodesign Addresses Coding vs the Innovation Ecosystem

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 Innovation policy experts from Stanford's Biodesign center have published a new paper about the coding ecosystem and the innovation sys...