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Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark

Lab Industry Easing Back to Financial Stability

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

IT MAY NOT BE JUBILATION, BUT THERE’S CERTAINLY LESS DESPERATION among laboratories around the United States. In travels around the country, both commercial laboratories and hospital laboratories tell THE DARK REPORT that the 2000 was unusually free of crises. It was also a more productive financial year than those of the 1990s. Of course, most …

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When the Laboratory Marketplace Speaks

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

IT WAS JUST 15 MONTHS AGO WHEN THE DARK REPORT made this bold prediction: “By December 31, 2001, every physician’s office in the United States which generates a high volume of laboratory testing will be using a Web-based system for ordering lab tests, receiving results, and accessing a patient’s complete lab test history.” When this …

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“Information Therapy” Plays to Labs’ Strengths

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

IT’S TIME TO PAY ATTENTION TO A GROWING AREA OF MEDICINE loosely described as “information therapy.” It is the concept of providing consumers and patients with reliable health information without requiring face-to-face visits with physicians or other healthcare professionals. For clinical laboratories and anatomic pathologists, this is an important development. After all, information is the …

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Consumers are Ripe, Low-hanging Fruit!

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

ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS ABOUT MY JOB as publisher emeritus of THE DARK REPORT is that I get time to think about the global implications of new developments in the laboratory industry. Unlike most of you, harried by the never-ending demands of your work day, I am at the tail end of my useful …

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Converting Business Intelligence Into Lab Profits

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By 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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Genetics Tidal Wave is Rapidly Approaching

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By 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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Prognostic versus Diagnostic Lab Medicine

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

MOST OF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE RACE TO DEVELOP effective laboratory tests and pharmaceuticals based on rapidly-developing genetic and molecular knowledge. We all ask the same question: when will my laboratory have to buy this technology and offer these new tests? For most of us, the answer is “not soon.” There is lots of …

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Beware What Your Lab Competitor is Doing!

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

TODAY I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK SPECIFICALLY to hospital lab administrators and owners of independent commercial laboratories. I would like to offer some friendly counsel: it’s time to pay careful attention to the most successful of your laboratory competitors. Undeniable evidence is mounting that traditional clinical laboratory management methods are inferior to new models of …

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Management Execution Makes a Difference

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

THERE’S PLENTY OF HOOROAR AND EXCITEMENT about skyrocketing stock prices for several public lab and pathology companies in 2000! But this crusty old curmudgeon has been around the investment industry too long to accept Wall Street’s new-found enthusiasm for clinical laboratories as definitive proof of the lab industry’s financial turnaround. For example, it’s exciting to see …

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Profitable Prices for New Lab Information Services

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

ONE RESPONSE TO THE CONTINUED CUTBACKS for laboratory test reimbursement during the 1990s was a deluge of papers and speeches by pathologists and lab executives hammering at the theme that laboratory information possesses the potential to improve the quality of healthcare outcomes while reducing the cost of care. In the face of financially disastrous reductions in …

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