The company recently launched an automated microbiology system in its Marlborough, Massachusetts laboratory using instruments from automation firm COPAN.
Clinical Pathology Laboratories said information on 2.2 million patients had been exposed in the same data breach that impacted millions of Quest and LabCorp patients.
The anticipated shortage for clinics comes at a time when more clinicians are already switching to lab-based IGRA testing, diagnostic industry executives said.
About 200,000 LabCorp patients may have had their credit card or bank information improperly accessed by the breach, which also hit 11.9 million Quest patients.
