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Quest Diagnostics has struck a deal to use healthcare software firm Epic Systems' suite of enterprise laboratory software and services, the companies said on Tuesday. Under the agreement, Epic's enterprise offerings — including its Aura specialty lab data exchange system, its Beaker lab information system, and its MyChart patient health record portal — will be implemented across Quest's national lab operations.

The collaboration will allow wearable device users to order clinical tests, schedule appointments, and receive results through the WHOOP mobile application. WHOOP announced that Quest Diagnostics will serve as the US lab provider for WHOOP Advanced Labs, a new feature that will integrate clinical laboratory testing into the wearable device company’s mobile application.

Quest Diagnostics-owned liquid biopsy developer Haystack Oncology is expecting in the next year to bring a new wealth of data supporting the ability of its circulating tumor DNA technology for use in minimal/molecular residual disease (MRD) detection across a variety of indications, especially those where its higher sensitivity may give it a boost over other technologies.

The relationship between Quest Diagnostics and Hackensack Meridian Health is taking another test. For the last four years, the Secaucus-based lab services provider has managed laboratory operations and performed reference testing for 11 hospitals in the Edison-headquartered health care network. Quest recently deepened that collaboration by opening its 250,000-square-foot next-generation flagship laboratory in Clifton to give students at Hackensack Meridian Health’s School of Medicine a behind-the-scenes look at clinical lab work.

Quest Diagnostics has launched a pharmacogenomic (PGx) laboratory test service designed to help healthcare providers understand individual genetic responses to select drug therapies and optimize medication selection and dosing decisions.