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Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark

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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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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Prognostic versus Diagnostic Lab Medicine

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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 / 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 / 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 / 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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Laboratory Information Systems “On the Cheap”

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

YOUR EDITOR AND I HAVE BEEN ATTEMPTING to make sense of the “Internet Revolution” in recent months. The ability of the Internet to make vast amounts of information available to anyone on demand, no matter where they are in the world, will definitely transform the clinical laboratory industry. After all, the fundamental product of any lab

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Professional Management Does Get Results

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

IF YOU TAKE THE TIME TO STUDY THE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE of certain public laboratories in 1999 and into 2000, you will be struck by the strong growth and profit numbers. That is contrary to the popular wisdom, which says that the clinical lab industry is in financial doldrums. But the strong financial gains posted by

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How Smaller Lab Organizations Can Compete

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MAYBE THE PENDULUM IS SWINGING BACK IN FAVOR of smaller laboratory organizations. During most of the 1990s, consolidation and large size seemed to generate clout. But huge size didn’t always result in profitable laboratory companies. Witness the red ink spilled from such public laboratory companies as Corning Clinical Laboratories (now Quest Diagnostics Incorporated), Laboratory Corporation of

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Investors Returning To Lab Industry

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

SOMETHING BIG IS HAPPENING to the clinical laboratory industry and the anatomic pathology profession. For the first time in six or seven years, the investment community is paying close attention to the laboratory industry. This should be a welcome development for commercial lab owners and anatomic pathologists. Behind the scenes and out of the headlines, a number

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