September 1998

Genetic Testing Almost Accented In Market Place

CEO SUMMARY: Advances in molecular and genetic science have generated the first generation of diagnostic assays for clinical use. As these assays reach the public, acceptance is not immediate. Obstacles are many: ethical, cultural, clinical, and economic. Oncormed’s experience during the last five years provides valuable insights about the challenges of being first to the […]

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DIANON Shoots At Urocor, Makes Unwelcome Offer

Laboratory Management / Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: It pays to know your friends. Last month DIANON Systems announced an unsolicited offer to acquire UroCor. The offer, following months of ongoing discussions between the two companies, was clearly unwelcome at UroCor. Both companies are pushing hard to evolve disease management products from diagnostics testing and compete nationally for urologist referrals ON

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Veterans Administration Network Restructures Using Partnering, Telepathology

Laboratory Management / Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Economic pressures are forcing even the traditional and staid Veterans Administration to extensively reconfigure its laboratory services. At this year’s Executive War College in New Orleans, participants learned how one eight-hospital VA region consolidated testing around two core labs, entered into a partnership with a commercial laboratory, and used telepathology to serve a

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Problems In PPM lndustry Affect Pathology Practices

Pathology Trends / Robert Michel

DURING 1998, THE FINANCIAL WOES of many physician practice management (PPM) companies caught healthcare experts, investors, and financial experts by surprise. Problems with the PPM industry could not come at a worse time for the pathology profession. At the very moment that several pathology-based PPMs are bidding strong prices for selected pathology practices, the PPM

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September 8, 1998 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News

Late Breaking Lab News / Robert Michel

If any one individual was to be credited with creating the modern commercial laboratory organization, it would be Paul Brown, M.D., founder and former Chairman of MetPath, Inc. (now Quest Diagnostics Incorporated). Where is he now? For ten years, he served as a Director for UroCor, Inc. of Oklahoma City. Dr. Brown recently resigned from

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