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October 2012

More IVD Consolidation as Danaher Acquires Iris

CEO SUMMARY: Danaher Corporation continues to fuel growth by continually acquiring in vitro diagnostics (IVD) companies. Its latest purchase is Iris International, which manufactures automated urine microscopy systems. Danaher also has $5 billion available that it could spend in the next two years on acquisitions. Because of its acquisitions over the past decade, Danaher now …

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CDC Surveys Docs’ Use of Laboratory Test Results

CEO SUMMARY: There’s a treasure trove of information and insights about how physicians use clinical laboratory tests contained in survey data recently collected by a team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Designed to identify challenges in how physicians utilize laboratory tests, the survey findings offer a road map about how innovative clinical …

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Unprecedented Growth Rates for Molecular Testing

CEO SUMMARY: There will be an expanding role for innovative clinical labs as healthcare moves forward on its path toward personalized medicine. However, to capitalize on this opportunity, pathology groups and clinical labs will need to beef up their information systems. They will also need to recruit lab staff who are skilled in interpreting molecular …

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Ampersand Buys Calloway Labs, Enters Pain Management Market

URINE DRUG TESTING for pain management may be a challenging business for clinical labs given that compliance officers in the states and in the federal government have successfully pursued lab compliance abuses in this line of business in recent years. Now comes news that private equity firm Ampersand Capital Partners of Wellesley, Massachusetts, is to …

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October 8, 2012 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”

Definiens AG, one of the major players in the fast-growing market for digital pathology, raised $12.8 million in additional capital funding. The company, based in Munich, Germany, manufacturers systems for digital image analysis. Definiens stated that the new funds will be used for “commercial expansion of its current business and to develop and commercialize innovative …

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