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December 2000

Converting Business Intelligence Into Lab Profits

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / R. Lewis Dark

AS THE NEW YEAR’S EVE CELEBRATION RINGS OUT THE YEAR 2000 and welcomes 2001, THE DARK REPORT will celebrate more than five years of service to the clinical laboratory industry and the pathology profession. It has certainly been an extraordinary five years for laboratories throughout the United States and the world. All segments of the […]

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DARK REPORT Presents “White Paper” Summary Of Laboratory Industry

Laboratory Management / Robert Michel

INTRODUCTION: To celebrate five eventful years of service to the laboratory industry and pathology profession, THE DARK REPORT is pleased to present its first “White Paper” on the laboratory industry. Our goal is help laboratories and their suppliers accurately identify relevant market dynamics and understand how and why these market forces will affect the stability

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Business Premises Underlying Lab Industry Dynamics

Laboratory Management / Robert Michel

This chapter addresses the characteristics of the laboratory industry which define the starting point for changes and ongoing evolution. The eight business premises listed in this White Paper describe unique situations which directly influence the ability of clinical laboratories to serve the medical community. The relevance of these business premises becomes apparent whenever a laboratory

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Strategic Business Failures Of The Laboratory Industry During the 1990s

Laboratory Management / Robert Michel

If analysis is to be accurate and objective, it must recognize and praise successful accomplishments while at the same time recognizing and criticizing failures. Human nature being what it is, however, criticism of failed business decisions is painful and bound to generate denials by the parties involved. One key element of a White Paper review

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Competitive Dynamics In the Laboratory Testing Marketplace

Clinical Laboratory Trends / Robert Michel

This section of the White Paper deals with the marketplace for laboratory services. For brevity and clarity, I will address five components: 1) independent commercial laboratories; 2) hospital-based laboratories; 3) esoteric, reference, and specialty testing laboratories; 4) anatomic pathology lab- oratories; and 5) diagnostics manufacturers and suppliers. These groups represent the basic divisions within the

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Summary and Overview of Lab Industry

Clinical Laboratory Trends / Robert Michel

If there is any common theme to the different chapters of this White Paper on the laboratory industry, it is probably this: in the next couple of years, clinical laboratories will continue to have one foot in the past and one foot in the future. Simply put, lab administrators will continue to manage a laboratory originally

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Genetics Tidal Wave is Rapidly Approaching

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / R. Lewis Dark

EVERYONE IN THE CLINICAL LAB BUSINESS KNOWS that our business will soon be dominated by genetic and molecular testing technology. However, most lab administrators and pathologists believe that we are several years away from the widespread clinical use of such technology in laboratory testing. In principle, I would agree with that part of the popular wisdom.

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Year’s Ten Biggest Stories Reveal Modest Changes

Clinical Laboratory Trends / Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: In many ways, 2000 was a relatively quiet year for laboratory organizations. This list of the ten biggest stories in the lab industry for 2000 demonstrates that the most innovative laboratory organizations in the United States are “raising the bar” for service and quality in the competitive marketplace. This will change the status

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Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Embraces New Testing Technology

Laboratory Equipment / Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Despite a decade of consolidation, competition among the world’s largest diagnostics manufacturers remains intense. In response to this competition, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics (OCD) is preparing a variety of new products and services for its clinical laboratory customers. It’s already exploring diagnostic opportunities in the emerging field of pharmacogenomics. In the field of laboratory management,

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Dynacare’s IPO is Funded, Specialty Labs’ IPO is Next

Laboratory Management / Robert Michel

IT WAS A DISAPPOINTING TRIP to the public equity markets for Dynacare, Inc. last month. The lab company raised only $50 million in its initial public offering (IPO). Dynacare had hoped to harvest as much as $89 million from this IPO. Plans were to sell seven million shares at about $13 per share. But after

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