November 2001

Roche, Digene, Centrex, Labtest.com, Specialty Labs, Tripath Imaging

ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS POSITIONED TO SERVE PUBLIC HEALTH LABS HEIGHTENED CONCERNS over bioterrorist attacks have accelerated plans within the public health lab sector to acquire state-of-the art diagnostic technology in DNA typing and enzyme immunoassay. Roche Diagnostics has instrument systems well-suited for both testing categories. Its DNA analyzers will compete with systems from Applied Biosystems and […]

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Pricing Models and RFP Terms For Web Orders and Results

Laboratory Information Systems / Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: Browser-based systems for lab test ordering and results reporting are now offered by a growing number of vendors. Early adopter labs are successfully acquiring these systems and offering them to their physician-clients. In this third installment of our special series, Cory Fishkin explains how to develop effective RFPs (Request For Proposals). He also

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Certain Medicare Lab Reforms May Make It Through Congress

Clinical Laboratory Trends / Robert Michel

ONE CONSEQUENCE of the terrorist attacks on September 11 is that proposed reforms to Medicare lab reimbursement policies have assumed a lesser priority with the current Congress. Despite that fact, Congress must still address the day-to-day requirements of managing government functions. Thus, there is still activity under way to develop and pass bills affecting funding

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Quest Buys New Jersey Lab, Lab Investors Cash In Stock

Clinical Laboratory Trends / Robert Michel

THERE’S LOTS OF BUYING and selling taking place among the public laboratory companies. On one side of the spectrum, Quest Diagnostics Incorporated announced the acquisition of Clinical Diagnostic Services, Inc., a private laboratory company based in Englewood, New Jersey. Clinical Diagnostic Services (CDS) was one of the largest independent lab companies remaining in the United States,

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“November 5, 2001 Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Late Breaking Lab News / Robert Michel

It’s a milestone in the Pap smear testing marketplace. Cytyc Corporation, in its third quarter financial report, now claims its Thin-Prep® product has 51% of the national market for Pap testing. Estimates are that 55 million Pap tests are done annually in the United States. A 51% market share translates into 28 million ThinPrep tests

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