2013: The Year In Diagnostics

Concerns over patents, the anticipated regulatory oversight over complex tests, and reimbursement and evidence development characterized the continued upheaval in the diagnostics industry over the past year. However, genomics tools and technologies continue to be refined and introduced commercially, and companies with a sharp marketplace focus are showing they can still rise to the top.

Concerns over patents, the anticipated regulatory oversight over complex tests, and reimbursement and evidence development characterized the continued upheaval in the diagnostics industry over the past year. However, genomics tools and technologies continue to be refined and introduced commercially, and companies with a sharp marketplace focus are showing they can still rise to the top.

The unquestioned biggest diagnostics story of 2013 was the US Supreme Court’s decision in June holding that DNA isolated from...

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